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Faith+Finance is bringing together pastors and impact investors, theologians and social entrepreneurs, and other faith and business leaders to respond with courage and imagination to the most urgent and demanding economic, social, environmental, and spiritual challenges of our day.
Faith+Finance
3M ago
We are excited to announce many of the sessions that will be featured on the Main Stage at Neighborhood Economics in San Antonio, February 26-28.
As always, the focus is on delivering economic justice to neighborhoods that are often left behind. We will showcase several funds that are getting money to these neighborhoods. Uniquely, we will focus on the role of congregations and faith leaders as central to helping local economies thrive in every neighborhood. We are continuing our emphasis on asset creation as the path to intergenerational wealth for marginalized communities, with more sessions ..read more
Faith+Finance
3M ago
Five Reasons to Attend Our Event | Blog Post | Jan. 19, 2024
Empowerment Starts Here: Top 5 Reasons to Attend Our Economic Justice Conference
Build with us! Here are the top five reasons you should attend the Neighborhood Economics Conference, an economic justice event from February 25-28, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas.
1. Border policies matter.
This year’s conference will take place in Texas, a state where immigrants make up a quarter of the workforce and the governor has transported more than 100,000 migrants to Sanctuary Cities throughout the U.S. Border policies are a hot issue in this stat ..read more
Faith+Finance
5M ago
By Leroy Barber
Executive Director, Neighborhood Economics
I recently visited San Antonio and had the honor of meeting community leaders and pastors doing some wonderful work in the city. I am thrilled to get to know so many people to prepare for our convening there in February. One of the groups I had the chance to connect with was a few of the black pastors on the Eastside of the city.
I made the mistake of looking at my GPS and seeing it was a short walk to the restaurant where we were to meet. What I didn’t take into account was the temperature. I assumed it would still be somewhat c ..read more
Faith+Finance
5M ago
A Preacher on Every Corner?
By Rosa Lee Harden
Every week, our planning for the San Antonio event gets more and more rich. And, the connections we are making are incredible.
In October, Paula and I were in Texas on a scouting trip mostly focused on speaking with colleagues in theological education about how the conversations we have at Neighborhood Economics connect with the questions about economic justice that more and more clergy are beginning to ask. We met in person with folks from Truett Seminary, Austin Presbyterian Seminary, and the Seminary of the Southwest. Then we were on the ..read more
Faith+Finance
1y ago
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Neighborhood Economics
Anna Golladay
anna@faithfinance.net
www.neighborhoodeconomics.org
Barber Joins Neighborhood Economics to Help Get Money Into the Hands of People Who Don’t Normally Get It
(Asheville, North Carolina; Portland, Oregon – September 29, 2022) Leroy Barber, co-founder and president of the Voices Project, has been appointed Executive Director of Neighborhood Economics, effective October 1, 2022.
Neighborhood Economics is “dedicated to getting capital into the hands of the people who don’t normally get it.” Its founders–Rosa Lee Harden, Kevin Jones, a ..read more
Faith+Finance
2y ago
watch & Read: Connecting Faith + Finance
Watch & Read: The Economy’s Not Gravity
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Transcript
In January of 2021 Faith + Finance hosted the fourth webinar in the four-part series Building a Loving and Just Economy. This is a transcript of the full conversation* featuring Stuart Yasgur, Vice President of Ashoka, in conversation with Coté Soerens of Cultivate South Park and Stephen Lewis of Forum for Theological Exploration.
Rosa Lee Harden: Hello, I’m Rosa Lee Harden, Executive Producer of Faith + Finance. Welcome today to the last of our seri ..read more
Faith+Finance
2y ago
Jesus says: If your hand offends you, cut it off!
But what if the hand that offends you is the invisible hand of the market? How do we cut that hand off?
Dave Ramsey, in a recently shared video clip that’s gotten more than 1 million views, says that isn’t our hand. Speaking about the idea that Christians who might own rental property and raise their rents to market rates and cause someone to be displaced, he said: “I own rental property .. and when I raise my rent to market rate … I did not displace the person out of that house if they can no longer afford it, the marketplace did ..read more
Faith+Finance
2y ago
There’s a joke we tell in my line of work: “Why does the church spend so much time talking about what goes on in the bedroom? Because we’re too scared to talk about what goes on in the boardroom.”
Perhaps the joke is less “ha-ha” funny and more “funny because it’s true” — one of those truths we chuckle off in good humor because actually sitting with it would be too uncomfortable.
Make no mistake about it, talking about money is dangerous. Pastors have lost their jobs for challenging their church’s approach to finances. Money equates to power in our society, and power yields nothing withou ..read more
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2y ago
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2y ago
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” This is the question Ronald Reagan infamously asked in his successful 1980 campaign against Jimmy Carter. The question, and underlying message, was clear and direct: leaders and policies should be evaluated on whether they make our overall lives easier or harder.
We are now living through an incredibly consequential time in US and global history, the outcome of which will be felt for years, if not decades to come. As we seek to evaluate the effectiveness of economic policies and decisions of our leaders, Reagan’s test is a valid one to a ..read more