Investment Approach

Community Wealth Building

Holistic Wealth: Define and measure success in terms of creative opportunity, quality of life, and sustainability

Sustained funding for investees

Non-extractive finance:

• Integrated capital: Provide funding in the form of  loans, gifts, and royalty financing to support small business creation and increase access to land and economic capital

• Patient capital: Prefer long-term value creation over short-term return on investment by offering loan terms that center the needs of entrepreneurs and fully include them in the underwriting process

• Reparative capital: Acknowledging the harm that has been caused financially in Black agricultural communities and leveraging shifts in capital to repair communities

Shifting Power in Food

Democracy: Supporting decentralized leadership with shared, community-led decision-making within the food justice space

Ownership: Improving racial equity and autonomy in the food ecosystem by empowering local food actors and prioritizing their interests 

Community Impact

Cooperation: Building strong relationships and facilitating the sharing of knowledge and resources within the community

Influence: Fostering community-led efforts to inform public policy in the areas of production, distribution, and access to healthy, economical, and culturally-relevant foods in communities of color

Resilience: Reinforcing long-term economic, environmental, and social sustainability