Our next Community Capital Live interview features Havell Rodrigues, CEO and Managing Partner of New Majority Capital. NMC is working on creating a better financial future by increasing the number of underrepresented business owners.

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund.

Our next Community Capital Live interview features Kathleen Paylor, Vice President of Impact Investing and Philanthropy with the RSF Social Investment Fund. Their mission is to catalyze transformation by circulating capital to social enterprises for a more just, regenerative, and compassionate world.

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund.

Our next Community Capital Live interview features Adriana Abizadeh, Executive Director of the Kensington Corridor Trust. The KCT fosters the equitable economic revitalization of a commercial corridor and its surrounding neighborhood through local partnerships, strategic programming, and an innovative approach to moving real estate assets out of the speculative private market.

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund.

Our next Community Capital Live interview features Lyneir Richardson, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Chicago TREND. They work to catalyze and accelerate strategic commercial development that strengthens urban neighborhoods, with a focus on communities of color.

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund.

Our next Community Capital Live interview features Jake Ide, Director of Investment & Philanthropy with the Vermont Community Loan Fund. VCLF is a diversified alternative lender, Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and impact investment fund that empowers Vermont-loving “Main Street investors” to invest in social, economic, and racial justice throughout the Green Mountain State.

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund.

Our next Community Capital Live interview features Jay Nwachu, President and CEO of Ignite Capital. Ignite Capital’s mission is to invigorate Baltimore's social enterprises located in communities with a history of economic exclusion.

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund. Learn more about the series here.

Our next Community Capital Live interview features Nia Evans, Executive Director of Boston Ujima Project, home to the Ujima Fund. The Ujima Fund is a democratic investment vehicle raising capital to finance small businesses, real estate, and infrastructure projects in Boston’s working-class Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color as part of the larger Boston Ujima Project.

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund.

This Community Capital Live interview features Hannah Sobel, Program Manager of PVGrows Investment Fund, and John Waite, Executive Director of Franklin County Community Development Corporation. Together, they work to strengthen the local food economy — more vibrant farm and food businesses, more local jobs, and more access to healthy food in the Pioneer Valley (MA).

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund. Learn more about the series here.

Our next Community Capital Live interview features Micha Josephy, Executive Director, and Josie Shagwert, Capital and Culture Manager of Cooperative Fund of the Northeast (CFNE). CFNE works for economic, social, and racial justice by advancing community-based, cooperative, and democratically owned or managed enterprises with a preference for assisting cooperatives in low-income communities.

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund. Learn more about the series here.

Our next Community Capital Live interview features Olivia Watkins, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Black Farmer Fund. The fund’s mission is to nurture black community wealth and health by investing in black agricultural systems in the Northeast.

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund. Learn more about the series here.

Our next Community Capital Live interview features Betty Francisco, CEO, and Aliana Piñeiro, Impact Director of Boston Impact Initiative (BII), a nonprofit impact investing fund focused on economic and racial justice. Their mission: Transform the impact investing field so that economic and racial justice become integral to any place-based investment strategy.

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Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund. Learn more about the series here.

Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders from around the country. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Our next interview features Lisa Nutter, the founder and managing partner of Community Impact Investments, a venture philanthropy and impact-first fund that provides local leaders and social entrepreneurs with the coaching and capital necessary to scale effective community-based solutions that address economic mobility.

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Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund. Learn more about the series here.

Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders from around the country. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Our next interview features Andrea Golden co-founder and co-director of PODER Emma. Andrea is a popular educator and interpreter who is deeply committed to cooperative economics and building collective power.

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Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund. Learn more about the series here.

The American Sustainable Business Network and The Belonging Collaborative cordially invite you to a crucial webinar on May 29, 2024, at 1pm ET. The webinar will focus on preserving equity across the investment industry. The session aims to provide a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities in maintaining and enhancing racial equity in investing. It will emphasize the role of community capital and restorative strategies in this endeavor.

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Highlights Include:

• How community capital, raised from a broad cross-section of a venture’s community, plays a crucial role in supporting racially equitable investments and nurturing local economies.

• Insight into the systemic barriers affecting BIPOC entrepreneurs.

• Necessity of restorative investing practices in closing the racial wealth gap.

• Innovative models like Diversified Community Investment Funds (DCIF) and their impact on promoting racial equity in the investment sector.

An examination of the current legal framework impacting racial equity investing, focusing on the need for vigilance and adaptability in response to evolving legal challenges. We invite you to participate in this important discussion, facilitated by Derek Peebles, Senior Director of Inclusive Economy at ASBN. Join us in our collective effort to preserve and advance equity within the investment industry.

The Belonging Collaborative

Belonging Collaborative is the collaboration of six peer networks to develop a shared vision to advance racial equity across the investment industry. The Collaborative includes American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN), Confluence Philanthropy, The ImPact, Impact Capital Managers (ICM), Intentional Endowments Network (IEN), , and Toniic. The Collaborative’s mission is to create an activated global network of values-aligned investors who collaborate, inspire action, and elevate the industry best practices for racial equity investing.

Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders from around the country. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Our next interview features Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers from Eagle Market Streets Community Equity Fund.

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Learn more about the series here.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund.

Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders from around the country. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.

Our next interview will be different. Natalie Foster, author of The Guarantee, will join us. This book asks us to imagine an America where housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, family care, an inheritance, and an income floor are not only attainable by all but guaranteed by our government for everyone. REGISTER HERE!

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund.

This past year has seen some incredible new developments in the local investment universe—including new funds, new cooperative designs, new organizations, and new public policies (e.g., in public banking).

Michael Shuman has tracked these developments in his weekly newsletter, The Main Street Journal. Join Michael and discover what’s happening and what you and your community can be part of.

Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders from around the country. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them. Click here to tune in for each episode—no registration is necessary.

Our next interview features Bryce Butler and Johnny Price from Access Ventures. Learn more about the series here.

Running the show is Joel Skene, whose Mindful Marketplace is already introducing local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund.