Kevin Doyle Jones
Bio from Neighborhood Economics Kevin Jones began his career as a weekly journalist in the poorest county in Mississippi. Along with his wife and business partner, Rosa Lee Harden, he went on to run a number of successful publications and trade journals in the state. In the mid-90s, Kevin launched the first web-based legislative monitoring and legal opinion service in the country, the same year the Netscape browser came out. Having a profitable internet-based business in the year the web launched enabled him to understand the business potential of the web, which he leveraged to create the first business-to-business internet conferences. In 2008, Kevin partnered with Tim Freundlich to create one of the first impact investing funds. While the fund was successful, Kevin and his partners quickly realized that the ecosystem needed to change for impact investing to succeed. This led to the creation of SOCAP, which grew over ten years from 600 to 3000 participants and is credited with changing the narrative on impact investing. Now, Kevin and Rosa Lee have launched Neighborhood Economics to let Christians get their money and their beliefs in line in order to do the hard, catalytic, patient work the world needs and Neighborhood Economics to pull together investors, practitioners, and planners to address economic issues in local communities.