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Blog Post Monique Woodard on Nov 6, 2019

3 Cities Using Capital to Build More Inclusive Ecosystems

Eighteen months ago, in collaboration with Living Cities, Rockefeller and Surdna Foundations, we launched Start Up, Stay Up, Scale Up (SU)3 — an initiative designed to address the challenges in acces…

Blog Post Sarah Liniger Eisner on Oct 24, 2019

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Blog Post Lethy Liriano on Oct 15, 2019

Dominican / American

This blog is part of our series highlighting Latinx staff members in honor of Latinx Heritage Month.

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Michael Ellison

Michael Ellison is the CEO and founder of CodePath.org.

Blog Post Shannon Jordy on Oct 14, 2019

#WealthInColor: Red Planet Books and Comics [VIDEO]

Red Planet Books and Comics owner Lee Francis tackles the perceptions of and narratives about Native Americans and their communities, and has important lessons for investors in New Mexico and beyon…

Blog Post JaNay Queen Nazaire & Demetric Duckett on Oct 10, 2019

Building Inclusive Ecosystems: Reflections from HBCU@SXSW [PODCAST]

How can we build ecosystems that put entrepreneurs of color at the center? At HBCU@SXSW we had a conversation about how inclusive ecosystem building can address the country’s legacy of racial dispari…

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Black America Is Just 72 Percent Equal To White America. In Some Areas, The Ine…

Blog Post Thiara Falcon on Oct 9, 2019

Afro-Latinidad

This blog is part of our series highlighting Latinx staff members in honor of Latinx Heritage Month.

Blog Post Ronak Davé Okoye on Oct 9, 2019

Healing-Informed Collective Impact: The Reflection and Practice

This two-part series details HopeSF's healing-informed collective impact approach to public housing in San Francisco.

Blog Post Ronak Davé Okoye on Oct 7, 2019

Healing-Informed Collective Impact

This two-part series details HopeSF's healing-informed collective impact approach to public housing in San Francisco.

Blog Post Joanna Carrasco on Oct 2, 2019

Power of Collective Action

Blog Post Ben Hecht on Sep 30, 2019

An Exciting Update from Living Cities: JaNay's New Role as Chief Strategy Offic…

Announcing JaNay Queen Nazaire's new role as Living Cities’ first Chief Strategy Officer.

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Nora Liu

Nora Liu is the project manager for Racial Equity Here, a joint project of the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE) and Living Cities, to support local governments leading the way to create a future for racial equity and economic growth fo…

Blog Post Shannon Jordy on Sep 24, 2019

#WealthInColor: Honeymoon Brewery [VIDEO]

In the first of our six-part #WealthInColor video series – featuring Black, Latinx and Native American founders – Ayla Bystrom-Williams of Honeymoon Brewery shares her entrepreneurial journey.

Blog Post Alyssa Smaldino on Sep 24, 2019

White Women: It’s Time to Rewrite Our Narrative as Anti-Racists

Blog Post JaNay Queen Nazaire & Demetric Duckett on Sep 23, 2019

Capital for the New Majority: Reflections from HBCU@SXSW [PODCAST]

What does it take to disrupt barriers to access to capital for people of color and shift who ultimately gets to grow and build wealth? At HBCU@SXSW we had a conversation with ecosystem builders and c…

Blog Post Elizabeth Reynoso on Sep 19, 2019

Putting Entrepreneurs of Color in the Center: What Ecosystems and City Governme…

Living Cities has been working with eight municipalities that are trying new approaches to address the fragmentation and barriers that founders of color experience in their communities.

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Jennifer Perkins

Jennifer Perkins is the former Assistant Director of Collective Impact at Living Cities.

Blog Post Ted Smith on Sep 19, 2019

What is a Community Data Portal and What Difference Can it Make?

Blog Post H. Kay Howard & Christine Kang on Sep 16, 2019