East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative

East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative

Interview with Noni Session, Executive Director, and Annie McShiras, Investment & Fundraising Director for the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative I first read about East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative in a blog by Nwamaka Agbo. Nwamaka worked to...
Fair Food Network

Fair Food Network

Interview with Lolita Nunn, Investor Relations Officer for the Fair Food Fund Network I was first introduced to Oran Hesterman, the founder, and CEO of the national nonprofit Fair Food Network, at a Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture Funders conference. He was...
Mission Driven Finance

Mission Driven Finance

Interview with David Lynn, CEO and Co-Founder of Mission Driven Finance I first met David Lynn and Mission Driven Finance via email. Their application to be considered as a Transformative 25 Fund was one of the first I reviewed that was outside of my experience with...
HomeStake Venture Partners

HomeStake Venture Partners

Interview with Bill Stoddart, Co-Founder of HomeStake Founders Fund  In 2017 when I joined the Just Economy Institute, the cohort was dominated by women, with a strong representation of people of color. In fact, it is the one finance space I’ve experienced where being...
Kachuwa Impact

Kachuwa Impact

Interview with Blake Jones, Founder & President of Kachuwa Impact Fund Erik Schultz, a fellow financial activist, Just Economy Institute colleague (formerly the RSF Integrated Capital Institute) and philanthropic colleague at Arthur B. Schultz Foundation...