Dear Colleague,

• Our most recent report—A New Anchor Mission for a New Century—about the role community foundations play in building wealth through impact investing, was profiled earlier this month in Forbes magazine. The Stanford Social Innovation Review also featured an article by Marjorie Kelly, co-author of the report with Violeta Duncan.

• In an Al Jazeera article, Democracy Collaborative Co-founder Gar Alperovitz argues for a guaranteed income to improve the plight of veterans, many of whom struggle with poverty and homelessness. In a Truthout article, Gar explores the challenges of structuring institutions of justice that promote public accountability. Gar and the Collaborative are also cited in an article in Dissent magazine describing Reading, Pennsylvania’s rebuild Reading initiative which aims, among other community wealth building goals, to establish a city-owned bank and to leverage anchor institution purchasing to create worker cooperatives.

• Last year, Democracy Collaborative Research Director Steve Dubb traveled to Cuba with a delegation organized by the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) to learn about the conversion of state controlled enterprises into worker-owned cooperatives. NCBA released the findings of this exploratory journey in a new report.

• In December, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Annual Learning Exchange of the Richmond based B-corp and CDFI, Virginia Community Capital.