Rewriting the rules for a more just economy
Purpose Foundation helps businesses and communities build equitable ownership, governance, and financing models.
A just economy needs new models of institutions
A generation of leaders are forging new models for shared prosperity and resiliency. These solutions re-write the rules of how money and power operate in our institutions. By shifting ownership and control into the hands of stakeholders and community, we can drive radically different outcomes in our economy.
Accelerating the transition to shared ownership
We are making equitable ownership models more replicable, accessible, and visible.
Stories of leaders building the new economy
Our network of business and community leaders are hard at work building the new economy. Here are their stories.
Firebrand Artisan Breads
An Employee & Community Ownership Trust in Oakland, California
Firebrand’s mission is provide quality employment to formerly incarcerated & houseless people to help break the cycle of recidivism. Over the past couple years, we’ve worked with Matt to develop an Employee & Community Ownership Trust (ECOT) model designed to protect this mission over the long-term.
Trust Neighborhoods
Building Mixed Income Neighborhoods
Trust Neighborhoods is blazing the trail for a new stewardship model, designed to not only protect affordability intergenerationally and support the emergence of mixed-income neighborhoods, but also ensure community members participate in value created through re-development.The good news is — it’s already working.
Berrett-Koehler
A Mission-driven Publisher’s Succession to Shared Ownership
Berrett-Koehler is preserving and extending its mission of “connecting people and ideas to create a world that works for all” through an innovative approach to shared ownership.
Making new models accessible, visible, and scalable
Our initiatives accelerate transformative ownership and finance models by incubating leaders, reducing legal complexity, and improving access to capital that builds equity and shifts power.
Purpose Futures Fellowship
Through our Purpose Futures Fellowship, we incubate innovative projects that are pushing boundaries in community wealth building, governance design, long-term investment, and more. Our fellowship serves as connective tissue bringing together diverse projects from across the country to tackle common challenges.
Altcap Fundraising Accelerator
Our Altcap Fundraising Accelerator is designed to give business owners and entrepreneurs the knowledge and tools necessary to raise mission-aligned capital. Learn more about how our accelerator can help you raise capital that supports your long-term goals.
Strategic consulting
We directly support high impact companies, economic development agencies, private investors and communities to design and implement alternative forms. Get in touch if you’re interested in seeing how we may collaborate.
Shared Ownership Innovation Lab
Our system is defined by a set of powerful default settings, which can make executing on shared ownership models very difficult and costly. To scale shared ownership models, we are continuing innovating on solutions to emerging challenges. Through high impact legal solutions (e.g., private letter rulings, building flexible infrastructure), we work to design easy to replicate models that better fit the needs of people and institutions.
Learn about stewardship
Explainers, stories, interviews, and more from the field
