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Investing in Equality
This paper provides a framework for impact investors as they consider how to invest in and support LGBT issues across common portfolio asset classes such as public equities and fixed income, and alternative asset classes such as private equity and venture capital.
Localization: Essential Steps to an Economics of Happiness
From trade to finance, from food to climate, from education to energy, the negative impacts of globalization have affected every part of the world's economies. This report summarizes those impacts, and provides a detailed listing of policy shifts and grassroots initiatives that can move the world towards the local.
Divest-Invest Clean Fifteen: A Total Portfolio Approach to Fossil-Free Climate Solutions
This publication presents the “Clean 15,” the first fossil-free model portfolio developed by the Clean Portfolio Project.
The Pluralist Commonwealth
In this video, produced by Democracy Collaborative staff working with Softbox Films, Gar Alperovitz sketches the major institutions of a systemic alternative based in plural forms of democratic ownership, oriented around community at various scales—what he has called “The Pluralist Commonwealth.”
Community Power Map
Where are communities taking charge of their energy future? Which states give communities the most power? ILSR's Community Power Map provides an interactive illustration of how communities are accelerating the transition toward 100% renewable energy and how policies help or hinder greater local action.
Placed-Based Investing for Resilient Rural Development
This study is the fourth in a series of WealthWorks papers focused on financing rural value chains. It helps value chain practitioners understand emerging opportunities to tap into new place-based forms of finance, across a wide spectrum ranging from crowdfunding to Slow Money, to community development finance and impact investing.
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An Eventful Week in Philadelphia: Grantee Gathering & Annual Meeting
This week, NEC is starting off the second half of 2015 on stronger grounding than ever with our Annual Meeting and first ever Grantee Gathering in Philadelphia.
A Community Renaissance in Greensboro
While the residents in Northeast Greensboro just wanted to get grocery store, they are doing something much bigger and more important.
Another World Emerging? Well, Maybe
Signs of deep economic changes are slowly taking place across the United States, focusing on cooperative/solidarity economics.
Fighting Inequality and Climate Change Through Localizing Economies
We currently face two equally urgent and significant crises: rising inequality and climate change. Rising inequality is not only morally unacceptable; it hinders economic growth. Climate change is occurring at a faster rate than other time in history and is already impacting every part of the country with low-income communities and communities of color getting hit first and most hard.
Reclaiming Our Commons: Egleston Community Orchard
Reclaiming our Commons requires coming together as a community.
Embracing A Long Term Agenda For a New Economy
By working together, we can build the next great progressive movement to take back our government and create the kind of just and sustainable economy in which we want to live and work.
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