In 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a speech that asked a question that reflected the discomfort between our country’s stated ...

In this episode of Live with Living Cities, host Justin Charles is joined by Madelaine Britt, Manager of Rochester’s Office of Financial Empowerment, and Santiago Carillo, Assistant Director of ...

I work in circles where we talk a lot about “people of color” (POC). We discuss what POC need to thrive economically, how to support POC with resources, and of course we interrogate how racism affects ...

Not just with goals, glory, and global fandom. But with money. Influence. Infrastructure. Attention. Capital. The FIFA World Cup, that is. And the numbers are staggering. Depending on the analysis, ...

May 10th marks National Small Business Day – a time set aside to encourage consumers to spend their money with local business owners instead of big box stores. This simple message can be applied to ...

When traditional finance falls short, where can changemakers turn? Host Justin Charles talks with Jim Casselberry of Known about how impact investing directs capital to overlooked communities and ...

Choose “Download this document” to download the citations and sources, with links to further reading. The experiment of America is over two centuries old. Throughout our history, systems were designed ...

The Where It Starts: Breaking Barriers to Business (B3) initiative, supported by Truist Foundation, is a transformative effort led by Main Street America and Living Cities, aimed at bridging critical ...

We are proud to celebrate a decade of impact with the Living Cities Blended Catalyst Fund. For ten years, the Blended Catalyst Fund has been a bold experiment in impact investing, showcasing that when ...

Kim Folsom knows what it means to be a Black woman entrepreneur. Even after founding and running seven successful businesses, she still feels “like a square peg in a round hole,” she says. Yet Folsom ...

In 2012, Julie Lein and Clara Brenner started Tumml, an urban ventures accelerator with a mission to empower entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. Through their experience with Tumml, Julie and Clara ...

When we launched the City Accelerator in 2015, our goal was to foster partnerships between philanthropy and local government to drive innovation in cities as a means to help tackle some of their most ...