The Restorative Investing Task Force is a group
committed to overcome systemic racism through restorative access
to capital. It seeks to share knowledge and learning to try to
fill the gap between traditional philanthropy and market return
seeking impact investing. It is fundamentally a way of deploying
capital with and to marginalized communities to address justice,
equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI), particularly to address
the racial wealth gap (i.e. not just capital to BIPOC but that
and more). It is inspired by the work of Nwamaka Agbo’s vision of
Restorative Economics and builds upon the work and ideas
generated by Rodney
Foxworth, Common Future, and acknowledges Alfa
Demmellash’s contributions to Restorative
Investing.
The goal of the Restorative Investing Task Force
is to create a library of restorative / non-extractive case
examples and to fund BIPOC Intermediaries, Funds and
Entrepreneurs using restorative investing practices.
This is meant to be a starting point for gathering and sharing
information. We invite you to share this information with
others and share your resources and restorative investing
examples with us to include in this webpage.
This taskforce has been spearheaded and co-led by
Laina Greene,
Cindy
Willard and Babbie
Jacobs
All members of the Taskforce have agreed to the
Shared Agreements