Systemic investing

What does this mean for Places?

Place Based Capital (PBC) intentionally integrates the CWB principles into design and implementation of local investment and financing vehicles; with the aim of improving equity of access to opportunities and prosperity, and strengthening wellbeing and resilience outcomes in Places.

Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s

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What is Community Wealth Building?

Community Wealth Building (CWB) is an economic development model that transforms local economies based on communities having direct ownership and control of their assets. It challenges the failing approaches that have been widely accepted in economic development for too long, and addresses wealth inequality at its... See more

. . . a systematic approach to supporting and growing diverse forms of local capital (including financial), particularly through — increasing local control and ownership of those capitals; improving the alignment of external sources of finance with locally identified priorities; and locally reinvesting the value created by economic activity so as t

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