Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
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 […]
“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 […]
CategoriesAccess to Capital Community Investment Local Economic Policy Ownership Matters UncategorizedBrookings’ publishing of Lyneir Richardson’s Playbook for Buying Back the Block Through Community Real Estate Ownership is a milestone for the blended philanthropic and investment market community we gather at Neighborhood Economics conferences. The playbook offers a clear and replicable plan to repair local economies in cities across the country. The playbook, which is […]
This past week, my wife Donna and I were able to go back to Atlanta where we spent seventeen years of our lives. Our grandchild lives there, it’s where our oldest children were raised, and where our two oldest sons and daughter-in-law still live and work. Did I mention our grandchild lives there? Tuesday morning, I […]
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 […]
“Money is the key to end all your woes, your ups your downs, your highs and your lows. When’s the last time that love bought your clothes? It’s like that and that’s the way it is!”Run DMC “I don’t know what they want from me, it’s like the more money we come across, the more […]
Note: Perhaps this isn’t 100% factual, but it IS a very true story. And I think it speaks to the work we are trying to do at Neighborhood Economics. Sharing this story feels risky because it is told from the vantage point of a single person (me!), and the way all the dots connect it […]
CategoriesAccess to Capital Catalytic Capital Church Assets in Transition Faith + Finance Faith on Main Street Lining Up Endowments with Missions Local Economic Policy Local Mission-Guided Investing Neighborhood Investment Trust Ownership Matters Racial Wealth GapFOR 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 […]
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 […]