Lawyers are looked to for practical arrangements, which implies expectation that things can and will be conformed to legal boxes. But what of the lawyer whose purpose is transformative? What if the legal formulas don’t exist? Land craft is an expression suggesting new ways to think.
Launched to meet the challenge of pandemic and disaster capitalism, the Main Street Phoenix Project turns acquisition, restructure and sale convention on its head — handing employees the keys and giving them the tools to stay in business as well.
“We focus on formerly incarcerated people because that’s where the barriers are.” ChiFresh Kitchen, jump-started under unlikely conditions in early 2020, has a solid business footing and a vision for growth.
Drawing on U.S. labor-movement and New-Deal-era history, Sara Horowitz urges a bottom-up approach to public policy to build cooperative-ecosystem density and “patient capitalist” perspective.
How Stephanie Swepson-Twitty, Eagle Market Streets CEO, and Kevin Jones, Faith+Finance co-founder, began collaborating to address a critical business-funding gap in their Buncombe-County home area of western North Carolina.
Seed Commons’ founder Brendan Martin’s vision is for a cooperative fund of funds enabling community-based financing — and his vision is working.