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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.
Own the Block explores how Community-Owned Real Estate (CORE) can shift power and capital toward Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, and working-class communities—turning real estate from a vehicle of extraction and displacement into infrastructure for ownership, wealth creation, and self-determination.
Across five episodes, we ask what it would take to stop treating community ownership as an exception and start treating it as necessary. Guests bring perspectives as organizers, community developers, funders, researchers, intermediaries, and practitioners working at the edge of what is possible.
Learn more and listen hereOur new report is written for business leaders—founders, CEOs, board members, and senior executives—who are looking for ways to navigate tension between their personal values and professional expectations.
These personal values, regardless of political orientation or worldview, shape day-to-day decisions and influence how their companies grow and develop. Yet acting on these values is often assumed to be rare, risky, or limited to exceptional circumstances.
This report challenges the assumption that values-led decisions are rare, risky, or limited to exceptional circumstances.
Drawing on more than 600 examples, the research shows how values-led decisions are already shaping real companies today, including many household names. Rather than focusing on one-off stories or narrow win-win cases, the report surfaces recurring patterns across ownership structure, corporate culture, stakeholder engagement, and more. These practices may not always make headlines, but they offer practical insight into what tends to work, for whom, and under what circumstances.
