Church curriculum idea for Neighborhood Economics

Kevindoylejones
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

My idea on for a Neighborhood Economics curriculum: it is a Sunday School savings/investment club network, investing and giving through a DAF as a class, and then the curriculum guides them through, starting by making more money doing good, with our basic friends and family investment product to invest friends and family funding into entrepreneurs who don’t have a rich uncle. You start by doing, not analyzing, and then you analyze what you’ve just done together. You act your way into a new of thinking is the model I have in mind.

Many of us who know that our lives have benefitted from previous generations oppressive acts and who don’t know what to do about it and who want to make peace with the lives that were stolen and the land that was stolen. Here is a way to engage in a way with these issues and make a difference, to change the system. And then the curriculum could look at the structural reasons for the racial wealth gap and help people take actions.

This all presupposes ubuntu, that we are all in this together, and our lives are inextricably linked on this planet, we are all relations, Mitakyu Oyasin etc.

But you start with investing at above market return, getting that message lodged in the mid brain as we do the hard work that needs to be done together. All of which will increase our philanthropic as well as investor outreach into the community; people will see when they need to give, and when investing and the market can create community wealth. They will learn Blended Value thinking and could learn to act that way. The market here is subservient to the needs of community wealth. It is an instrument to be used within and for the benefit of staying within the nine planetary boundaries of any particular bioregion.

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