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June 30, 2020

Resources for funders and financial institutions

Resources for supporting the community wealth building ecosystem. For more information on strategies for community wealth building, see our community wealth building page.
Next City Local Economy

Local Economy Preservation Funds: A Plan to Save Local Businesses and Create Broad Prosperity

by Marjorie Kelly, Thomas Hanna

Local economies are being decimated in the COVID-19 pandemic. By this point, every community has stories about a business that has closed and won’t re-open and friends and family members who have been laid off. As the economic shutdown continues, large numbers of local businesses face bankruptcy and

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April 20, 2020
An empty street in the UK, with a road sign encouraging people to stay home, protect the NHS

Owning the Future: After COVID-19, a new era of community wealth building

by Joe Guinan, Sarah McKinley

The COVID-19 pandemic could become a moment of crystallization, with communities and governments working together to build a genuinely inclusive economy. But to do so, we need ambitious interventions, both at the national level and at the level of a new common sense, built upward from community.

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March 19, 2018
CWB: 8 Basic Principles

Community Wealth Building: Eight Basic Principles

Based on Ted Howard’s remarks to the recent Alternative Models of Ownership conference, we’ve distilled the eight basic principles behind community wealth building—a transformative approach to local economic development—into this handy one page guide.

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Cities Building Community Wealth screenshot

Cities Building Community Wealth

by Marjorie Kelly, Sarah McKinley

In an era of persistent urban inequality and chronic unemployment disproportionately impacting historically marginalized communities and communities of color, new alternatives to the traditional economic development strategies are clearly needed. This report responds to this challenge by highlighting best practices in inclusive innovation from twenty cities across the country, and offering a unified vision of the underlying new paradigm of community focused economic development.

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