Homeless: Technology Leveling the Playing Field
By: Ras Tafari What is it like to be homeless? Ras Tafari shares about living out...
Tag Archives: Community Economic Development
The Poverty Industrial Complex
This article by Monica McGloin (edited by Trenton Davis), originally published in Streetvibes newspaper, discusses the...
Exploring transformational neighborhood change: Rich Jones
What happens when neighborhoods change? This article by Rich Jones, originally published in Streetvibes newspaper, explores...
Building community: Tune into talk with Sarah van Gelder
Sarah van Gelder, co-founder of YES! Magazine, will share about her new project called PeoplesHub —...
A Case for Empathy
Trenton Davis with his Guatemalan family on a Habitat for Humanity trip in 2016 By: Trenton Davis This...
Creating an Alternative Economy: BALLE’s Michelle Long
Michelle Long, BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) executive director, shares the story of BALLE’s co-founder Judy Wick, who built the socially responsible White Dog Café in Philadelphia through sourcing based on relationships with the land and people in her community.
Founded in 2001, BALLE (pronounced “bahl-ee”) works with local businesses who want to collaborate for the good of their communities, and helps the communities share ideas in various places in North America.
BALLE formed a Community Foundation Circle for foundation leaders who want to see investments used to strengthen community economies. Traditionally, when a donor gives a community foundation gift, the money is placed as a community grant. People are waking up to using money for impact investments.
Listen to her full conversation with Peter Block and John McKnight:
Building Neighborhood Economy: City Solicitor Paula Boggs Muething
City of Cincinnati solicitor Paula Boggs Muething joins Peter Block and John McKnight in conversation on what’s economically possible for poor and marginalized neighborhoods. (more…)
Innovative Funding for Citizen-Initiated Change
Janis Foster Richardson
Janis Foster Richardson explains the program Grassroots Grantmakers, which is a ‘network’ of people that are willing to provide funding to initiatives that create community. She looks at what motivates people to bond together, and reveals perhaps surprising results of what has and has not gotten desired results.
What Is TimeBanking?
Edgar Cahn is a social innovator and has created TimeBanking, a unique way of building community...
Journalism That Tells the Story of What is Working in the World
Sarah van Gelder speaks about how our culture perpetuates the idea that happiness comes from spending...
How Economy Serves Us
Economist Olivia Saunders discusses our need to create a new, abundance-based economy that serves us, and why scarcity economics eventually leads to violence.
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