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This substack considers Swannanoa, North Carolina the center of the universe, post Helene and is trying to put the devastation and the gift economy that’s arisen in context
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The church where people gathered (opens the original)
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Why congregations may be one of our best answers to the convenience trapJulie Beck has a new piece in The Atlantic, “One Reason People Are Spending So Much Time Alone”, that puts a name to something I see in almost every community we work with. Beck is reviewing Gabe Bullard’s new book, Against Convenience. She takes a phrase that has been going around social media, “inconvenience is the cost of community,” and flips it: community is often the cost of convenience. Convenienc
DAF Commons: The Next Step in Catalytic Capital (opens the original)
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In 2019, MacArthur, Rockefeller and Omidyar launched the Catalytic Capital Consortium and gave our field a working definition. Catalytic capital is investment capital that is patient, risk-tolerant, concessionary, and flexible in ways that differ from conventional investment. Money that goes in early, stays in long, takes the first loss, and bends its terms to fit the deal. It was a gift to everyone doing economic justice work. We finally had language and the process for wh
Where ideas come to have babies (opens the original)
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A lot of conferences are about people showing off finished products. Neighborhood Economics is about that too, but it’s also where people trot out new and promising ideas and make connections. Sometimes those ideas have babies or start to walk. Take Jeremiah Robinson, a CDFI veteran and a member of the Neighborhood Econommics family, who brought to Galveston a concept for lowering the cost of CDFI capital for people without collateral or family money. His Affordability Rate Capital (ARC) Fund pa
DAFs show up at Neighborhood Economics (opens the original)
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After years of being talked about, donor-advised fund holders have shown up, organized, and started pointing their capital at neighborhood ownership.For years, donor-advised funds (DAFs) have been the elephant in every philanthropy or community economic development conversation. They hold hundreds of billions of dollars, and they sit at the center of the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history. Practitioners building local economies have said the same thing again and again: someone
Tribes as laboratories of the future (opens the original)
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Tribes Are Laboratories of the FutureNative American writer Vine Deloria Jr. put it plainly: “Tribes are not vestiges of the past, but laboratories of the future.” A 2023 California Law Review article by Elizabeth Kronk Warner and Jensen Lillquist takes that line literally and applies it to rights of nature. It gave me a way to think about what my friend John Warriner is doing in the
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