Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
CategoriesAccess to Capital Racial Wealth GapPhoto by Mikelya Fournier on Unsplash There is a custom in our town. If you want a BIPOC person, especially one leading a nonprofit, to address your club, church coffee hour, or other group interested in learning more about the issues related to economic justice they are working on, you pay them an honorarium of […]
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 […]
CategoriesRacial Wealth GapThis is a story of how systems change. In this case, the power shifted because a Black entrepreneur asserted his power against the thoughtlessly oppressive credit card and banking fee system. He started a fund to help Black and brown sole proprietors become job creators, and this created the room for the system to shift, […]