Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
It’s easy to find stories about what’s broken in our economy, how inequality deepens, systems fail, and despair feels justified. These challenges are real and must be acknowledged. But when they dominate the conversation, we risk missing something equally true: there are hundreds of people, enterprises, funds, and initiatives actively repairing their local economies, quietly, […]
How Two Strangers Sparked a Citywide Awakening Sometimes, the most powerful outcomes begin with a single unexpected moment. In 2023, Joe Minicozzi of Urban3 took the stage at Neighborhood Economics in Jackson and revealed how property tax systems often force low-income neighborhoods to subsidize wealthier ones. In the crowd was Patton Dodd, director of storytelling […]
How One Gathering Sparked National Ripples We’re genuinely thrilled about our most recent event in Asheville on April 1st and not just because of the rave reviews we’ve been receiving. These kinds of reflections remind us that Neighborhood Economics is more than a gathering. It’s a movement with tangible momentum. What Attendees Are Saying “It […]
Entrepreneurship Meets the Post Disaster Economy: Get Ready for an Unforgettable Experience An unprecedented assembly of investment funds are going to gather in Asheville in a little over a month, all focused on helping local entrepreneurs succeed and become job creators. There will be sessions to help entrepreneurs learn how to best tell the story […]
Sometimes a church can do a better job of solving the problem of post-disaster emergency housing than either a city government or a federal agency. That was the situation in Asheville when Grace Covenant Presbyterian stepped in to solve the problem for the hundreds of people who lost their homes–apartments, trailers, or houses –thanks to […]
I had the opportunity to go last week, with Rosa Lee, to the Ostrom workshop at the University of Indiana to explain the post-disaster economy I see sprouting through several initiatives in and around Swannanoa where we live; it was the epicenter of Hurricane Helene. Our neighborhood, which is often called Swannana-nowhere in the Asheville […]