Unlocking the Capital Stack: A Showcase of Game-Changing Funding Strategies at Our Asheville Conference

Are you ready to revolutionize how you think about funding and entrepreneurship? This November 12-13, in Asheville, NC, we’re bringing together some of the most innovative minds in finance and community development for an exclusive Capital Stack Showcase at the Neighborhood Economics Conference. Whether you’re an entrepreneur looking to grow or a funder eager to […]

Gearing Up for Asheville

We’ve got several exciting and intriguing sessions teed-up for our fall conference in Asheville. Rev. Luke Lingle, who worked with three Methodist churches in Asheville as they became vital community centers while maintaining worship spaces, has joined our team. He is going to lead our faith-based sessions looking at how churches create shared and mixed-use […]

Leadership After Empire: Leaving Pharaoh’s Ways Behind

Rabbi Elan Babchuck, who is presenting at Neighborhood Economics on his research into what’s working and what’s not in the faith-based accelerators from across the country, has written a book about a new kind of leadership. Writing with the Rev. Kathleen McShane, Director of Learning and Innovation for Texas Methodist Foundation and Wesleyan Impact Partners, […]

Dignity

Dignity is defined as being worthy of respect or honor. I often hear that everyone is deserving dignity at some level. It seems like a fairly understandable concept, but the practice of respecting people seems to be something that is pretty difficult to apply. It seems to be hardest to apply when it comes to […]

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Press Release: Barber Joins Neighborhood Economics to Help Get Money Into the Hands of People Who Don’t Normally Get It

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Neighborhood EconomicsAnna Golladayanna@faithfinance.netwww.neighborhoodeconomics.org  Barber Joins Neighborhood Economics to Help Get Money Into the Hands of People Who Don’t Normally Get It (Asheville, North Carolina; Portland, Oregon – September 29, 2022) Leroy Barber, co-founder and president of the Voices Project, has been appointed Executive Director of Neighborhood Economics, effective October 1, 2022. Neighborhood […]

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Faith on Main Street

In Dave Kresta’s book, Jesus on Main Street, he outlines a path for Christian congregations to engage in community economic development. Unlike traditional economic development, which can result in marginalized communities being displaced and forced to move to make way for highways or housing projects for affluent homeowners or retail, community economic development includes the […]