Solutions to Repair Local Economies are Starting to Replicate

Mixed Income Neighborhood Trusts, or MINTS, were a brand new concept three years ago, but Trust Neighborhoods has quickly grown from two buildings in one city to 170 residences in five cities. MINTS are a rare economic justice innovation that found the right inflection point in the system at just the right point to halt […]

Trinity Christian College Takes On the Challenge of Student Debt

Trinity Christian College in Chicago is making real progress in creating a system of funding higher education that does not leave students burdened with tens of thousands of dollars of debt that, unlike business or personal debt, cannot be eliminated by filing bankruptcy.  College President Aaron Kuecker used a cup of coffee to transform the […]

Watershed Fund is Thriving in Asheville

Kevin Jones We’ve raised a year of operating capital to launch The Watershed Fund, https://emsdcmarketplace.org/donations/watershed-fund/ which offers zero interest loans to local farmers serving our farm-to-table sector in Asheville. The connections and reciprocity within our food systems are already proving to be one of the surprising benefits. With the Watershed Fund, https://neighborhoodeconomics.org/wiki/index.php/Initial_design_of_the_Watershed_Fund what we are […]

Let Justice (and Capital) Roll Down in Jackson

Dave Kresta After spending the morning touring the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson on a recent Sunday morning, I was in an understandably somber mood. I was shocked out of my disgust and confusion when later that afternoon I attended the Working Together Jackson “Refounding Convention,” where over 500 energized and engaged community leaders […]

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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 […]

Transformation Through Replicable Local Platforms

When we held the transform conference a couple of years ago, we decided we would not focus on regenerative agriculture and forestry, though that, as has been shown, was the largest market opportunity; it’s been growing at an accelerating rate. At our core, however, we, the founders of SOCAP, realized that we care about, and […]