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Reflecting and Planning Using a Community Wealth Building Lens

by Brent Kakesako

Writing for Shelterforce, Brent Kakesako takes a look at the 25th annivisary of the community wealth building field:

Our growing community wealth building field has the goal of building ‘a new economic system where shared ownership and control creates more equitable and inclusive outcomes, fosters ecological sustainability, and promotes flourishing democratic and community life.’

Read more about the history of community wealth building in in Shelterforce …

Publication date: 2017-06-28
Parent publication: Shelterforce
Publication URL: Reflecting and Planning Using a Community Wealth Building Lens
by Brent Kakesako

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