In this podcast, Heron’s Rodney Christopher discusses the importance of unrestricted revenue and offers thoughts on the overhead question.
In this video, impact investor Bobby Turner addresses what he calls a “legacy of dependency” that’s established when society’s greatest problems are treated with band-aids rather than an impactful cure.
In this podcast, Gil Crawford talks about MicroVest, sustainable banking and the real economy.
This month’s photo captures San Francisco’s mass displacement of the homeless in order to accommodate Super Bowl City.
A new series, "Building the Inclusive Economy," begins with a review of broad-based ownership models, their applications and success in community development.
For over fifty years, the global economy (and that includes the U.S. economy) has felt the effects of three related long-term trends, widely reported and acknowledged. They are: first, a weakening of the pull of place; second, disintermediation; and third, closely related to both, the explosion in the use of information technology, meaning that in labor markets there are more journeymen, no assurance of life employment and a continual evolution of skills needed to make a living.
The McKnight Foundation's Rick Scott discusses the principles, challenges, and future of impact investing in a recent interview with Goldman Sachs.
In this podcast, Ross Baird offers insights into capital inequality and how Village Capital seeks investment opportunities beyond the usual suspects.
Toni Johnson brings up important questions surrounding employment in the wake of a "gig-economy" and use of prison labor.
The Pacific Standard highlights some key takeaways from census data on poverty and income inequality in the United States.