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*UPDATE* In October 2019, BALLE changed its name, brand, and identity to Common Future. We're grateful for the network that has joined us in the work of community wealth-building for nearly two decades and encourage you to continue following us on our new Facebook page: www.facebook.com/commonfutureco Read more about this change on our Medium page: ... https://bit.ly/2raJFzZ

Common Future (previously BALLE) wishes you a wonderful holiday season! Today, we're encouraging our community to think twice about Black Friday purchases and consider other ways to #ShiftCapital. Follow our new Facebook page or sign up for our newsletter (http://eepurl.com/gHdzXn) to catch our upcoming Medium piece: Do you really need to give on #GivingTuesday? Cheers!... -The Common Future Team See more

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Rodney Foxworth discusses some of the brilliant work of our Network leaders in this ImpactAlpha Q&A on redistributing wealth, democratizing power and shifting economic control for our Common Future: https://buff.ly/326BsJE

How are we tied by our Common Future? Our CEO, Rodney Foxworth, explains to Social Venture Circle: Somewhere around 2040, the US will be a majority people of color country. The US public schools are already majority students of color. The data indicates that if the wealth trajectory continues the way it’s going now, median household wealth for African Americans will drop to zero by 2053. You can be totally self-interested, and not care about other people, but this kind of economy will impact you at some point. Checkout the full interview here: https://buff.ly/36mKuFI

At Common Future, we look at all of the exploitation and extraction that has occurred through status quo investing, and we really want to disrupt that concept and look at it as restorative and even, dare I say, reparative investing. Check out Rodney Foxworth’s latest interview with DevEx on the urgent need for impact investing to break from an "exploitation and extraction" strategy: https://buff.ly/2JC6Byr

1 minute that will be worth your time. Watch Common Future CEO, Rodney Foxworth, speak on the balance of capital and power in impact investing, mainstage at SOCAP - Social Capital Markets https://buff.ly/2N4WODd Check out the full video here: http://bit.ly/2BYs6oC