Shifting investing practices into community control

https://youtu.be/az0VEbIUDb8?si=8mjiuU4K72Q-jfa_

This video snapshot focuses on efforts to seed participatory, community-led investing practices in the field. The conversation highlights the work of Tap Bui, Co-Executive Director of Song CDC in New Orleans, LA, and their efforts to advance community-led work in New Orleans East. Song CDC is part of the BHPN Community Innovations for Racial Equity initiative. The video also highlights the work of Sonia Sarkar, who serves on the Leadership Team of Shift Health Accelerator. Sonia co-led the Common Future Action Lab: Participatory Investing initiative which produced a Participatory Investing Toolkit, a playbook for operationalizing power-shifting within philanthropic investment. The discussion underscores opportunities for funders to approach grantmaking and investing through new lenses, opening up opportunities for community ownership, wealth building, and trust-based processes that stand to create more equitable and community-driven impact.