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Transform Finance is a research, education, and implementation partner that supports all stakeholders to challenge legacy investment approaches, seed transformative investment models, and build movement power.
Alternative Ownership Enterprises (AOEs) are firms that significantly shift economic value and decision-making power toward the non-investor stakeholders they impact, such as workers, producers, consumers, community members, or even a non-financial purpose.
Now, we are supporting investors to deploy capital into the ecosystem of intermediaries and deals. Join us in documenting best practices for AOEs and in unlocking more capital for this field.
Learn moreInvestment into communities is one of the most dominant forces in shaping lives, particularly for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and working class communities. But even mission-aligned capital is largely out of the control of those whom it affects.
There are many initiatives around the U.S. that are charting a new way for how to invest so as to shift that dynamic, placing communities at the fulcrum of control and agency. We call this practice Participatory Investment (which we refer to in the report as Grassroots Community Engaged Investment), or the process of investing with meaningful input, decision-making power, and/or ownership from grassroots stakeholders.
Learn about Participatory Investment and the many projects around the country that are leading this movement in this foundational report.
