Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
Building an interdependent economy Walking away from the myth of the rugged individual Mapping the capital to create neighborhood scale resilience When we were planning the content for the entrepreneurship ecosystem focused Neighborhood Economics conference set for mid-November in Asheville, we already had set up what we were calling a capital showcase. This was to explain […]
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 […]
Leroy Barber, Executive Director I think my life may have been built around cooperative economic activity on just about every level. This way of life led to flourishing based on everyone having a voice and ownership. I don’t believe my mom would have been able to raise us alone without our community and a place […]
by Kevin Jones Patrick Covington helps lead a small foundation in Houston that’s beginning to switch to a place-based approach, as opposed to focusing on specific issue areas like education or health. Being focused on a place helps a local foundation see the connections between what can otherwise be siloed approaches and focus on root […]
I happened to be in a conversation this past week, and someone said this sentence: “He grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.” It has stuck with me. It has made me wonder what the wrong side of the tracks refers to and what are the conditions on this “wrong side?” Is it […]
We need to delegitimize the often hidden and unconscious way that money and the wealthy rule the world, says Marjorie Kelly in a thoughtful new book Kelly and the Democracy Collaborative were among the early leaders in the movement toward shared ownership, with their innovative Cleveland Coop which generated jobs, new businesses, and democratic wealth […]
I have had the incredible opportunity of many people investing in me and the work I do for close to 35 years now, and it has allowed me to dream, imagine, create, and start many projects and businesses over the years. It has also built confidence in me to keep risking and creating, even though […]
I’m not quite sure if I’ve ever produced a conference in February. The reason for our February event, Neighborhood Economics: San Antonio, is that we really wanted to go to San Antonio, and we don’t want to be there in the heat that strained the people and the grid last year.. We have amazing partners […]
Sometimes, whether I want it to or not, my years in Texas show up. My pick-up truck, my country radio station, and my constant attempts to recreate the boot scootin’* I did at West Fraternal Auditorium through two degrees at Baylor give me away. I have added pink decals to my truck and sometimes turn […]
CategoriesUncategorizedPaula Garrett My 92-year-old mother grew up celebrating Juneteenth. She is a Texan, and she says that she learned about it in school. She was taught the history of it, the fact that it took two years for the news to get from Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation all the way to Galveston, TX. As a young […]