On Deck: Community Capital Live!
THIS WEDNESDAY: Nia Evans, Executive Director of The Ujima Fund.
The Main Street Journal co-sponsors an interview with an innovative community capital initiative twice a month. The goal is to highlight new possibilities for your own community. You can participate in real time (for free) or watch our recordings.
Check out our upcoming schedule below and register today!
The Ujima Fund: Wednesday, September 25, 2 pm ET
Featuring Nia Evans, Executive Director of Boston Ujima Project, home to The Ujima Fund. The Ujima Fund is a democratic investment vehicle raising capital to finance small businesses, real estate, and infrastructure projects in Boston’s working-class Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color as part of the larger Boston Ujima Project.
New Hampshire Community Loan Fund: Wednesday, October 9, 2 pm ET
Featuring Steve Saltzman, President and CEO of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund. The fund serves as a catalyst, leveraging financial, human, and civic resources to enable traditionally underserved people to participate more fully in New Hampshire’s economy.
Ignite Capital: Wednesday, October 23, 2 pm ET
Featuring Jay Nwachu, President and CEO of Ignite Capital. Ignite Capital’s mission is to invigorate Baltimore's social enterprises located in communities with a history of economic exclusion.
About Community Capital Live
Kevin Jones of Neighborhood Economics, Stephanie Swepson Twitty and Jazmin Rogers of Eagle Market Streets, and Michael Shuman of The Main Street Journal will host a twice-monthly interview series with community investment fund leaders nationwide. They will help decode the DNA of different designs, enabling you and your community to replicate them.
Joel Skene runs the show, whose Mindful Marketplace introduces local investment concepts to thousands of listeners. Co-sponsors include The Main Street Journal, Neighborhood Economics, American Independent Business Alliance, and ImpactAlpha. Data from each show will ultimately feed a public wiki to help you build support for your own community’s fund.
