Commonbound 2016

This will be two part presentation, where the “Community as Developer” will be explored by the Fund for Democratic Communities, and “Accessing Capital and Markets as a Cultural Practice” will be presented by WEDI. The Fund for Democratic Communities will discuss their work with cooperative business development in Greensboro, NC, focused on making the community its own developer.  WEDI will discuss its micro-finance and incubation work as a reimagining of prevailing commercial and banking fundamentals as an act of culture. The goal is to share specific successes within the context of common success strategies, which invites the ideas and imagination of participants. The sought outcome is a collective conversation around the possibilities of real economic change.