RESOURCES
We believe the most strategic role for wealthy investors in transforming our economy is divesting from Wall Street and shifting their money into community-controlled investments that center racial justice. On this page you’ll find resources to support:
Learning about the landscape of restorative investing and investing in racial justice:
- Thought leaders and organizations to follow:
- Nwamaka Agbo, Restorative Economics
- Jessica Norwood, Runway Project
- Podcast on the Power of Repair
- Aaron Tanaka, Center for Economic Democracy
- Rodney Foxworth, Common Future
- Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth
- Emergent Solidarity Economy, community-controlled funds to check out:
- Chordata Capital’s theory of change includes moving money to both Solidarity Economy funds, and Community Development Financial institutions (CDFIs):
- Banking on Justice in Yes Magazine explains why CDFIs are important, and features the powerful work of Hope Credit Union
- Context from Democracy Collaborative on the history of the CDFI movement, and the state of the field
- Opportunity Finance Network offers a directory of CDFIs and AERIS offers a CDFI “Fund Selector” tool
- Lane Fury on Cooperative Fund of New England’s Journey to Equity and Inclusion
Understanding our economy and the connection between wealth accumulation and racism:
- Movement Generation’s Just Transition Zine
- Justice Funder’s Resonance Framework
- NYTime’s 1619 Project, especially In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation
- Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva
- The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms by Vann R. Newkirk II for the Atlantic
- The Destruction of Black Wall Street comic by Chelsea Saunders for The Nib
- Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave it. By Lizzie Presser on ProPublica
- Reveal Podcast on The Red Line: Racial Disparities in Lending
- A Plan to Reverse Economic Apartheid which describes how intentional policy decisions created and maintain the racial wealth divide. The two podcast guests were co-authors of Dreams Deferred: How enriching the 1 percent widens the Racial Wealth Divide
- When Affirmative Action was White: Uncivil Rights by Nick Kotz
- The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran
Tracing the history of your family and your own wealth accumulation:
- Resource Generation in the United States (or Resource Movement in Canada)
- United for a Fair Economy’s Boosts and Blocks of Building Wealth
- Kate’s Juneteenth Sermon
Finding community–you do not need to do this work alone!:
- For wealthy inheritors, Resource Generation. RG is a multiracial membership community of young people with wealth and/or class privilege committed to the equitable distribution of wealth, land and power. Kate and Tiffany connected through Resource Generation! (In Canada, there’s Resource Movement)
- Join the New Economy Coalition, and find members of NEC in your region
- Build multiracial, multiclass community through organizations like Be Present
- For young queer people of color building the cooperative economy, reach out to CoFED.
- For folks looking for funding for their work, check out this list of funding resources Resource Generation has compiled.
- For funders in Massachusetts, Center for Economic Democracy’s Solidarity Economy Initiative
Rituals and practices to support wealth redistribution:
- Rituals and practices for end of year giving
- Sermon by Kate connecting Jewish practices to reparations and restorative investing
- Spiritual Dimensions of Conscious Investing comic by Kate
- generative somatics
- Healing Justice podcast
Our writing and articles featuring Chordata Capital’s work around the internet:
- Tiffany on Returning to the South
- Kate on the Spiritual Growth of Wealth Redistribution
- Financial Activists Leverage Capital for Good by Deb Nelson
Trainings and Workshops:
- To learn about the economics, Center for Popular Economics Summer Institute
- To learn about economics and governance, there’s Highlander Center’s Mapping the Future curriculum
- For financial activists RSF has a 9 month long Integrated Capital Institute
- For finance professionals looking to shift their practices, Marco Vangelisti’s Towards Aware and Values-Centered Investing
- United for a Fair Economy offers trainings to understand the growing racial wealth divide, income inequality, and economic crisis. In the past they have offered online workshops through Peoples Hub.
- To learn about leaders in the space, Transform Finance and Confluence Philanthropy have great webinar series
- To learn decolonizing philanthropy and investing, Thousand Currents Academy is a wonderful immersion
