Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
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 can’t tell you how excited we are that so many of you are coming to Asheville Neighborhood Economics April 1 & 2. I have to tell you, I’m also so very sad that we are going to end up having to tell you all in just a few weeks that the event is completely […]
A colleague has created a data set that shows where the relief money in the Asheville bioregion is going to provide relief and restoration from the impact of Hurricane Helene. Thanks to Tiffani Hart, who leads Ashevillerelief.org, we can see that much money from state and federal funds is going to each CDFI for these […]
In the wake of increasingly frequent climate disasters, a promising initiative is taking root in Swannanoa, North Carolina. Drawing inspiration from successful post-Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans, we’re helping those working to establish a professional Resilience Corps that builds upon the extraordinary efficiency of existing mutual aid networks. The Foundation At the heart of […]
In the wake of increasingly frequent climate disasters, a promising initiative is taking root in Swannanoa, North Carolina. Drawing inspiration from successful post-Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans, we’re helping those working to establish a professional Resilience Corps that builds upon the extraordinary efficiency of existing mutual aid networks. The Foundation At the heart of […]
In the heart of Asheville’s historic Shiloh neighborhood, a groundbreaking initiative is reimagining how communities can finance and implement climate solutions while building reliable neighborhood-based food security. At the intersection of innovative financing, community empowerment, and environmental justice, this project could create a blueprint for sustainable community development through food systems. It starts with a […]
“There is a gap between the sustainable economy and the economy focused on economic justice. They seldom meet.” The core of a Neighborhood Economics conference is highlighting promising and potentially replicable solutions that are working to repair the economy in one neighborhood, solutions could be replicated in other city. At our national conferences, we highlight […]
There is a movement growing across the country to establish the legal personhood of a river as a way to check the power of corporate personhood. If a river has legal standing to sue its polluters, a town or county could, for example, stop fracking in their community, or halt a pipeline the people living […]
These last couple of weeks have been a climate nightmare for many as we continue to deal with the effects of global warming. We saw wildfires in Maui destroy the entire city of Lahaina, parts of Canada continuing to suffer from fires, tropical storms hitting Southern California, excessive heat warnings in an unprecedented number of […]