Dennis Comer, executive director of Central Area Collaborative (CAC), wants elected leaders and policymakers to know three things: What you’re doing to help small BIPOC-owned businesses isn’t working. There are…
The end goal of a just transition is an equitable and regenerative economy. That means an economy centered around well-being and care of all people and the environment. It means…
Community-Owned Resource Development (CORD) is a coalition of over 40 BIPOC community leaders and organizations that empowers its members to advance real estate development projects that combat displacement and build…
As Seattle grows and becomes more and more expensive to live in, families and communities who have lived here for generations find themselves unable to pay rent, buy a house,…
Building power and organizing to protect worker rights are at the heart of the work of Drivers Union, an association of rideshare drivers (for Uber, Lyft, etc.) that advances fairness,…
Will von Geldern is Director of Advocacy and Communications at Ventures and is a People’s Economy Lab Leader Earlier this year, we wrote about our work to build an economy that is truly…
Locally based financing helps local economies thrive by keeping dollars flowing in the local economy and maintaining aligned incentives for community value creation. Community Sourced Capital, a crowd-sourced zero-interest lending platform, developed a system of financing loans under $50,000 for neighborhood businesses
To build an economy that is truly inclusive, we have to look at all aspects of economic development. This is particularly true in the Puget Sound region, where the recent influx of wealth has not resulted in economic prosperity for everyone.
