Impact Investing

Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF)

http://www.gcfdn.org/CommunityLeadership/ImpactInvesting/tabid/368/Default.aspx

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) is the first community foundation in the country to offer a portfolio of impact investment opportunities—i.e., investment opportunities intended to achieve both a financial and social or environmental return—to its donor advised fund holders. Aiming to increase its investments in the local community, provide a new way to engage existing donors, and attract new donors, GCF committed $10 million of its unrestricted endowment to impact investments and plans to co-invest with its fund holders in every deal. Read more about Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF)...

Slow Living Summit 2015

June 3rd, 2015 to June 5th, 2015

Brattleboro, VT

The New Barnraising

Gareth Potts

German Marshall Fund of the United States

This new toolkit from the German Marshall Fund offers policies and practices to empower communities to preserve civic assets such as public parks, libraries, and recreation centers in the face of public and private resource constraints. Based on research conducted in Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Baltimore, the guide offers a range of strategies to raise money, awareness, and community involvement for the preservation of community assets.

Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference

May 19th, 2015 to May 21st, 2015

Detroit, MI

The Power of Impact Investing

Margot Brandenburg and Judith Rodin

Wharton Digital Press

In this new book, Rockefeller Foundation president Judith Rodin and Nathans Cummings Fellow Margot Brandenburg make the case for impact investing as an alternative to traditional investing and philanthropy. Intended as a primer for retail investors, high-net-worth individuals, foundations, and others wishing to broaden the social and environmental impact of their investments, the book highlights opportunities to invest for social good around the world.

Enterprise Financing for WealthWorks Value Chains

Marjorie Kelly

This new report, authored by Democracy Collaborative Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly, offers a comprehensive framework of community investing, ownership, and wealth control models to enhance the social, ecological, and economic well-being of rural areas.

A Decade of Impact, 10-Year Celebration of Responsible Endowments Coalition

May 8th, 2014

New York, New York

Community Capital

BALLE

In this new guide to community investment, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) identifies finance options and other investment tools to reinvigorate regional economies, create high-quality jobs, and restore the environment. BALLE offers this guide as a resource to help re-shape financial capital flows to support local self-sufficiency and ingenuity.

Community Sourced Capital

http://www.communitysourcedcapital.com/

Neither crowdfunding nor a financial institution in the traditional sense, Community Sourced Capital (CSC) aims to build community through finance by enabling community members to provide needed capital to

Mosaic Solar

Investing in Cooperatives: Market Assessment & Opportunities for RSF Social Finance

Merrian Borgeson and Mark Zimring

The Rise of Community Wealth Building Institutions

Oct 16th, 2013

More people are turning to economic alternatives in which new wealth is built collectively and from the bottom up

Crossposted from Policy Network, and later published on the London School of Economics website, this blog is part of a debate event hosted by Policy Network in London, UK, that was reviewed in OurKingdom by grassroots activist James Doran:

Five years after the financial crisis economic inequality in the United States is spiraling to levels not seen since the Gilded Age. While most Americans are experiencing a recovery-less recovery, the top one per cent of earners last year claimed 19.3 per cent of household income, their largest share since 1928. Moreover, income distribution looks positively egalitarian when compared to wealth ownership.

Expanding the Market for Community Investment in the United States

US SIF

Assessing Impact at Anchor Institutions

Sep 10th, 2013

New anchor dashboard identifies 12 priority areas and indicators

Crossposted from Rooflines: The Shelterforce Blog

This week, The Democracy Collaborative is releasing a new paper to create a framework for measuring the effectiveness of university and hospital efforts to partner with and improve conditions in surrounding communities. Our goal is to help institutions reflect and assess broadly the long-term impact of their anchor-mission activities, and particularly the extent to which they may benefit low-income children, families and communities.

Democracy Collaborative Offers Paid Internship

Aug 6th, 2013

Work with us on newsletters and community-wealth.org

We are pleased to announce a new intern position at The Democracy Collaborative that will focus on the Community-Wealth.org newsletter and adding web content. For further details, please see the position description below. Remember to submit your applications by August 30!

Done Right, Eliminating Food Deserts Result in Community Oases

May 1st, 2013

Building community wealth every step of the way

Pogue’s Run Grocer Mural, an initiative of the Indy Food Co-op. © Indy Food Co-op

Building healthy, vibrant and sustainable communities requires more than “bottom up” solutions. The importance of community ownership to ensure that projects that start at the bottom result in lasting community wealth for the people involved is often missing from the discussion. The local foods movement provides examples that illustrate the importance of this ownership principle in practice.

Democracy Collaborative Presents to Illinois Governor's Task Force

Apr 19th, 2013

Public session April 24 on community wealth building

Next week in Chicago, Democracy Collaborative executive director Ted Howard will present testimony before the Governor's Task Force on Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Enterprise. The presentation will focus on a set of actionable policy recommendations to help position Illinois as the nation’s leader in community wealth building. The meeting will take place in room 314 at Roosevelt University’s Walter E. Heller College of Business, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, 2013.

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