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5 Year Anniversary Report
5 years ago in Fall 2018, with a dream in our hearts, we announced that Chordata was open for business. We’ll be real – the success of this project is beyond our wildest dreams, and we are in awe of everything this community has accomplished. To celebrate, we’re thrilled to share Chordata’s 5-year Anniversary Impact… Learn More
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What is Jewish Investing?
Jewish investing cannot mean endless wealth accumulation, or sending money to a militarized state built on the violence and dispossession of Palestinians, justified by the lie that these strategies will keep our people safe. Jewish investing must mean supporting economic self-determination for all communities. That includes mutual aid, community building, repair, and rethinking what it… Learn More
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What can we learn from cooperative economies in Italy and Spain?
By Tiffany Brown I recently returned from a delegation to Emilia-Romagna in Italy and the Basque Country in Spain, organized by the Center for Cultural Innovation. Their initiative is called Reimagining Scale, and brought together a group of US-based solidarity economy practitioners ranging from academics to organizers to investors. Emilia-Romagna is a region in Italy… Learn More
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Planting Parsley, Building Power: Reflections on the Black Farmer Fund’s Abundance Festival
by Nyia Hawkins Ahmad Free-Cohen, employee of Rise & Root Farm, pulling a cart of plant starts The last weekend in September, I drove from Washington, D.C. to upstate New York for Black Farmer Fund’s annual Abundance in Autumn Festival, a special event for BFF’s community of farmers, funders, and investors. Held at queer and… Learn More
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Shareholder Activism and Cross-Class Organizing at the Movement Finance Forum
By Kate Poole and Tiffany Brown In early June, Kate attended the Movement Finance Forum along with a group of Chordata’s investors. Movement Finance Forum (MFF) was a 4-day convening conceived and organized by Center for Economic Democracy (CED). In 2022 CED published a paper on Social Movement Investing, positing that in order to truly… Learn More
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Black Women Led Community Real Estate in East Durham
In 2024 Chordata invested in Communities In Partnership (CIP) after being connected to the organization through Lina, a client local to Durham NC. In March, Tiffany and Lina spent two days visiting CIP’s many projects in East Durham and getting to know their dedicated leadership. Our team member Sarah sat down with Tiffany and Lina… Learn More
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13 Reasons Why Wealth Holders Should Invest in the Solidarity Economy, Alongside Redistribution
As radical investment advisors, we often get questions like: “Why should a wealth holder with a commitment to redistribution invest some of their assets?” “Why might projects want investment capital and not only grants?” One of the places these questions have arisen is in the Chordata Cohort. Our last cohort set up a $3M emergent… Learn More
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Investing in Appalachia, Before and After Hurricane Helene
A mural I visited in Morganton, NC depicting elder Francisca Mendez Rodriguez as part of the Industrial Common‘s cultural work. The mural was created by Alexa Eliana Chumpitaz as part of a mural project celebrating diversity in the Catawba River Basin. Chordata facilitates the flow of capital between investors who want a new economic system… Learn More
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Investing in the Movement for Tenant Power and Community Controlled Real Estate
We recently returned from Right to the City Alliance (RTTC)’s member assembly in New Orleans. We were incredibly grateful to be invited into this space and for the chance to learn directly from organizers building the solidarity economy!!! RTTC is a national alliance of more than 90 community-based organizations growing grassroots power to halt gentrification and displacement,… Learn More
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