On August 25, 2021, Janice sat down with Andrea Armeni and Curt Lyon of Transform Finance, alongside Deborah Frieze of the Boston Impact Initiative to discuss Community Investment Funds and how they build power.
Read More
“Lack of deal flow.”
I hear this lament all the time from investors and fund managers looking to invest for impact.
Read More
A growing number of Americans who never considered themselves impact investors are now taking a long hard look at the wealth they’ve amassed through hard work — and, often, privilege — and wondering how they can use it to be part of a solution rather than an unwitting perpetuator of the problem.
Read More
On Monday, June 29, 2020, Janice sat down again with Teresa Chahine of Yale School of Management, this time as part of a panel with Anna Blanding of ConnCAT and ConnCorp and Michael Shuman, one of the go-to voices on local investing and community economics. This panel discussion was about finance and economic justice.
Read More
Janice sat down with Social Entrepreneurship professor Dr. Teresa Chahine of Yale’s School of Management (SOM) in February 2020 to discuss democratizing entrepreneurial financing.
Read More
The tradition of neighbors investing in neighbors dates back to the 1800s in Vermont. Mutual savings banks, some of which have operated in Vermont for over 150 years, are still in operation today.
Read More