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11. Giving to invest: philanthropic investing using a national donor advised fund platform provides the missing capital that makes catalytic system change possible. Giving to invest makes each Sunday School class or civic club into a more powerful group of givers. The Community Equity Fund as the initial local opportunity. Venture philanthropy is a major force in Europe and South East Asia but is only beginning to catch on here. Instructors: Margaret Gifford of Abundance Capital, Stephanie Swepson Twitty, Kevin Jones, Tim Freundlich https://www.abundancecap.org/team | 11. Giving to invest: philanthropic investing using a national donor advised fund platform provides the missing capital that makes catalytic system change possible. Giving to invest makes each Sunday School class or civic club into a more powerful group of givers. The Community Equity Fund as the initial local opportunity. Venture philanthropy is a major force in Europe and South East Asia but is only beginning to catch on here. Instructors: Margaret Gifford of Abundance Capital, Stephanie Swepson Twitty, Kevin Jones, Tim Freundlich https://www.abundancecap.org/team | ||
Revision as of 09:04, 1 January 2024
Democracy School, a local, experimental project under the umbrella of Neighborhoodeconomics.org, in partnership with Warren Wilson College and the Asheville Poverty Initiative [1]
Snapshot of Democracy School classes
The list of Democracy School classes:
Workforce housing solutions so that people don’t have to drive 40 miles for a restaurant job
How to support the local farm to table economy
How to invest in local businesses at lower than crowdfunding risk with greater upside
How to bridge the red blue divide
How to subvert redlining in your community
How to curb corporate power through the rights of nature and other solutions
How to invest to bridge the racial wealth gap
How to use giving to invest to become a more powerful giver, and how to do it in your trust circle, from Sunday School class to civic club
The history of settlement and power in the place where you live
How faith communities can engage in their local economies
Description of classes
Classes:
2. How Buncombe County was settled the way it was: The Vanderbilt’s, the Biltmore and the Shiloh Community, the evolution of forestry, the history of power in the place we live and the problems it has created for our collective future. Instructors: Tom Hatley, Cherokee elder Tom Belt
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7. 8. Faith Communities engaging in the local economy: Answering God’s call to work for justice for the marginalized, as individuals, as congregations, and its theological foundations: instructors, Rosa Lee Harden, Aaron Kuecker, Stan Wilson, Willie James Jennings Tim Soerens
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11. Giving to invest: philanthropic investing using a national donor advised fund platform provides the missing capital that makes catalytic system change possible. Giving to invest makes each Sunday School class or civic club into a more powerful group of givers. The Community Equity Fund as the initial local opportunity. Venture philanthropy is a major force in Europe and South East Asia but is only beginning to catch on here. Instructors: Margaret Gifford of Abundance Capital, Stephanie Swepson Twitty, Kevin Jones, Tim Freundlich https://www.abundancecap.org/team
The concept doc on the give to invest platform
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10nLUBq4QTctoiqLgnkEP-azzKil22B9hpENhfyOt0sE/edit Giving to invest concept