Some Key resources that informed our work

"How can we strengthen community economies? This paper is an exploration of the academic literature as it relates to community economies and local economic development."

Audrey Jamal

The Legacy Leadership Lab (L3) made the case for social acquisitions, the transformation of conventional businesses into social purpose organizations, and has mobilized a national network of stakeholders to enable more of these social acquisitions to happen - Sean Geobey

"To combat rising wealth inequality and ownership concentration we need new and innovative tools to create and support new and different owners"- Jon Shell, Social Capital Partners

See links in article for additional resources from Social Capital Partners.

The paper explores impact capital as the transformative agent to take employee ownership to scale. 

Jessica Rose and Marjorie Kelly

For more resources see https://democracycollaborative.org/programs/cwb

This White Paper illustrates the community wealth building model, its benefits and to propose the establishment of a Minister for Community Wealth Building to oversee the development and implementation of a community wealth building strategy - Meaghan Burkett, Ethical Fields

The article introduces systems hijacking—a process of leveraging incumbent forms and systems in which they are embedded for new purposes—for understanding how organizations can transform social systems, and uses a thought experiment to imagine 'What if'...  communities could own assets in the same way that large corporations and private equity investors do.

Heather Hachigian