Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
CategoriesEcosystem AnalysisHow TICA is getting the collaborative wheels turning by Kevin Jones There’s a particular moment in building any new field of practice when a room full of well-meaning people who all say the word “impact investing” realize they’ve never actually watched each other invest. Texas recently had that moment. Kate Knight, former director of a […]
Photo courtesy of East Tennessee Farmland Commons Food justice is often talked about in the context of addressing food deserts, with the goal of getting a grocery store or setting up a community garden to increase access to healthy options. But at The Farmers Land Trust, a national nonprofit transacting farmland into community ownership, food […]
CategoriesEcosystem AnalysisFor years we have been teaching the Field Guide to Transformation as a forensic player map. Who is on the field? What role are they playing? Is there a System Entrepreneur calling plays? Is there a Finance Wizard devising funding innovations? Has the local Prophet been co-opted by the institution they were supposed to hold […]
CategoriesEcosystem AnalysisI’ve been working on a book with Rosa Lee. Our working title is This Shit Works — And Why It Matters. One of my tasks has been compiling case studies of economic justice solutions, projects like Buy Back the Block, which enables average people in poor neighborhoods to become owners of commercial real estate in […]
