I work in circles where we talk a lot about “people of color” (POC). We discuss what POC need to thrive economically, how to support POC with resources, and of course we interrogate how racism affects ...

After the tragic killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, protests have swept across the United States. This has led to a wide-ranging discussion about how to reform ...

The second City Accelerator cohort on Inclusive Procurement invited ten cities–Boston, Cleveland, El Paso, Houston, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Nashville, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and South Bend–to ...

When we launched the City Accelerator in 2015, our goal was to foster partnerships between philanthropy and local government to drive innovation in cities as a means to help tackle some of their most ...

JK:We’re celebrating your new role as President of Youthprise! Can you tell us a bit about Youthprise? MP: I’ll start by sharing Youthprise’s mission, which is to increase equity with and for ...

In light of our ImpactAssets50 recognition, we will be sharing blog posts, originally posted at Impact Alpha, that highlight the unique values that led the Catalyst and Blended Catalyst Funds to be ...

Living Cities CEO Joe Scantlebury and Saint Paul Mayor Melvin Carter discuss how shared ownership and solidarity economy strategies are driving equitable economic transformation at the local level. In ...

As we pass the one-year mark of implementing Truist Foundation’s multi-year, signature small business initiative, Where It Starts: Breaking Barriers to Business, I find myself reflecting on our ...

Choose “Download this document” to download the citations and sources, with links to further reading. The experiment of America is over two centuries old. Throughout our history, systems were designed ...

The goal of this project was to ensure that entrepreneurs of color, particularly those with businesses poised to scale, could access the capital and community resources they need to grow their ...

Kim Folsom knows what it means to be a Black woman entrepreneur. Even after founding and running seven successful businesses, she still feels “like a square peg in a round hole,” she says. Yet Folsom ...

This resource is used by staff at Living Cities to track progress towards our organizational results. Please download and adapt the template for your own work. The ...