Initiatives.

To effectively advance racial and economic equity, Common Future incubates, co-creates, and funds field-defining initiatives and influences key sectors. We collaborate with leaders who have the imagination and courage to rethink our economy. We bring initiatives that model how to build wealth and power in excluded communities to life. With data on what works, we influence key sectors across philanthropy, impact investing, government, and corporations, showing that building economic power for excluded communities is possible and attainable.


Our initiatives are designed to shift capital into communities, uplift local leaders, and accelerate the development of equitable economies.

Current Initiatives

Our Work In Action: Incubate

  • For Community Leaders

We incubate. We support solutions from community partners, policy leaders, entrepreneurs, and philanthropy by providing them with the guidance, capacity, resources, peer connections, and mentors to advance their ideas to the next level.

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Our Work In Action: Co-Create

  • For Community Leaders
  • Virtual Residency

We co-create. We demonstrate what’s possible by working alongside community-centered initiatives to bolster their capacity in critical areas. How we work is just as important as what we create.

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Our Work In Action: Fund

  • Consultancy
  • For Funders
  • Impact Investing

We fund. BIPOC-led organizations and communities frequently lack access to flexible, non-extractive capital on their terms. We challenge the concept of traditional “investability” by building a just model of investing that shifts power to community leaders.

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Our Work In Action: Influence

  • For Community Leaders

We influence. For far too long, leaders in this country have failed to make significant progress toward economic justice. Through public communications and our trusted network, we uplift the models and solutions we incubate, co-create, and fund, showing the world that an equitable economy is possible and attainable.

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