For a while now, there's been a growing interest in what's called "community wealth-building". That means strengthening locally-rooted and locally- held businesses and investing vehicles, with worker ...

The United States is witnessing a quiet revolution in its approach to the revitalization of distressed urban communities. Most urban neighborhoods, even those blocks away from reviving downtowns and ...

On Sunday, the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University, Accelerator for America and Blueprint Local released Towards a New System of Community Wealth, a new paper by Ross Baird, Jihae Lee, Daniel ...

Baltimore Community Commons bought a historic downtown building that it is renovating and hopes to open by the end of the ...

The Evergreen Cooperative is a Cleveland-based network of a half-dozen worker-owned cooperatives offering living-wage jobs and profit-sharing to 400 worker-owners, many of whom were chronically ...

Reggie Gordon is the director of Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building, the first of its kind in the nation. As he says, minorities all too often suffer from high unemployment or are pushed ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Days before the inauguration, I met Iowa City city councilwoman ...

This article was adapted from Cities Building Community Wealth, a project of The Democracy Collaborative, for New Economy Week. In cities across the nation, a few enjoy rising affluence while many ...

Too often, economic development efforts pit communities against each other or fail to help large swaths of low-income people. How do you go about engaging in economic development that helps low-income ...

Dēmos and New Economy Project explore how public banking can expand opportunities for communities of color to build shared generational and community wealth. For decades, the racial wealth gap has ...

Anna Alejo is CBS News Colorado's Executive Producer of Community Impact. She works with the news team to develop more grassroots relationships and original content at the neighborhood and local ...

Truist Foundation announced it has made a $500,000 grant that will ultimately help Richmond‘s Office of Community Wealth Building provide further financial, education and employment coaching to city ...