Achieving Inclusive Economic Growth through Monumental Coordination: Organizing to Do Things Differently
Apr 30, 2021
Structural change to our economy is possible, if we can get coordinated. That’s why over 50 of the nation’s most prominent impact-oriented organizations, funders and business coalitions have developed a joint proposal for a new White House Initiative for Inclusive Economic Growth.
Why the time for a focus on inclusive economic growth is now
Though some say the economy is “booming”, we know that these effects are not widely felt. Forces like shareholder primacy and other dogmas that have governed our economy for decades have pushed businesses, investors and markets to prioritize shareholder interests over workers, community and environment. Concurrently, historic atrocities and systemic racism have set the conditions for severe, racialized wealth inequality, which has increased dramatically in recent months. This has led economists to describe a “K-shaped
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When we look back one day at how the tides of economic and racial injustice were shifted, we’ll see the handprints of a network of financial activists. Gaining in power and reach year by year, this force rising from the Integrated Capital Institute is shifting growing amounts of financial and social capital along with control of those resources to communities that have faced persistent exclusion and discrimination.
RSF Social Finance created the ICI in 2017 with the goal of training a diverse corps of financial advisors, investors, philanthropists and community leaders to challenge assumptions about the best uses of money, collaborate effectively with people coming from radically different contexts and apply an integrated capital approach to systemic problems. The ICI has since graduated 73 fellows varying in age, ethnicity, location and economic background, with two-thirds of them women from an intensive, personally demanding nine-mon