Earlier this month, the Neighborhood Economics conference came to Chicago – a city alive with energy, creativity, and a fierce commitment to building stronger, more connected neighborhoods. Opening remarks from Alison Clark, the Associate Director of Impact Investing at the MacArthur Foundation, and one of the event’s key sponsors, set the tone with reflections on […]

It happened at 11 am, in a session on soft capital.I’d been writing for a few weeks about how the solutions to repair and heal local economies are becoming replicable, not just complex one-offs just short of rocket science.  I was thinking of work like what Lyneir Richardson and his company, Chicago TREND, had done […]