"The opportunity to shift capital to shift power is in front of us. My request is simple: be an ally and fund people of color. Now." - Rodney D. Foxworth, CEO Common Future bit.ly/3eKXg4w

"The message non-Americans receive is loud and clear: the American Dream is intrinsically linked to its proximity to Whiteness, at the expense of advancing Blackness." Ruchika Malhotra Anti-blackness is global and pervasive. Let's acknowledge, unlearn and dismantle together.

"Legibility is hard work that requires both the internal work of imagining/reimagining and the external work of relatively easy translation." nonprofitquarterly.org/the-legibility… via Nonprofit Quarterly

🚫Our trading terminals and market data do not contain the tools we need to eliminate or reduce systemic racism. ✅Communities most impacted by racism have the answers; we can and should listen to them. But how? 👇🏽 #RaceInFinance robasciotti.com/race-in-financ…

Join us on Friday, August 28 for a dynamic conversation with practitioners that are laying the foundation for a more equitable financial system!

Financial risk is just one assessment, and it’s critical that it is not the only one, as it so often is when philanthropies think about ROI. We need to ask: What is at stake if we don’t support these projects and communities? We need to share in the social risk. #KatalyLaunch

The issue with reports like Citibank's is that we continue to center the financial benefits as a primary reason to include people in our society. This is not a business case - people's lives are deeply impacted by our collective unwillingness to address systemic racism.

“When someone manages to rise up through our hobbled alleged meritocracy and is crowned the first to hold a position, I know that does not mean that they were the only one who possibly could.” My god, ⁦Kaitlyn Greenidge⁩ this is a salve ❤️❤️❤️ harpersbazaar.com/culture/featur…

Great piece by Denise Hearn on thinking needed to build better systems. "...it will not be a battle of ideologies that will get us to where we need to go. It is time to move beyond dualistic language, and beyond the debates about whether capitalism alone can solve our problems."

I have a new blog post up for GenderSmart for those interested in advancing fields of social finance like climate or gender or equity investing. It's time to shift the burden of proof to mainstream managers to justify the status quo. gendersmartinvesting.com/gendersmart-bl…

To empower communities, we need to center them. Join @affordcredit for #CreditSips, a chat on how we use #impactinv to build inclusive systems with Sandhya Nakhasi, Lauren Grattan of Mission Driven Finance®, and our Director of Capital Strategies, Eric Horvath. buff.ly/3wjuOPO

So looking forward to REAL TALK on what it takes to reconnect capital & community with Sandhya Nakhasi & Eric Horvath this Thursday at Credit Sips 💛 Join us! eventbrite.com/e/credit-sips-… #impinv @affordcredit Common Future Mission Driven Finance®

As they say in the Windy City, Chicago only has one map. Here’s the SBA 504 program, intended to support real estate & other hard asset lending for small biz that have trouble accessing credit. But in relying on private lenders, a familiar pattern. plcy.mp/fpBwbMQ

I wrote about the metaverse, how rational choice theory is the economic version of "I don't see color," and how we believe the body is subservient to "the economy" despite the economy simply being the cumulative activity of billions of bodies: embodied-economics.ghost.io/the-body-is-no…

#VoteNow for our panel at SOCAP Global! At "Real Talk: What Does It Take To Do Impact-First Investing" panelists from Possibility Labs, Mission Driven Finance®, & @affordcredit will share #ImpactFirst investing strategies for an equitable, sustainable, #JustEconomy. socapglobal.com/session-idea/r…