BALLE becomes
Common Future.

What is Common Future?

For 18 years, BALLE has worked alongside community leaders to advance bold ideas that are changing systems. If you followed our series this fall, you read about the incredible leaders in our network, our theory of change, and our vision of an equitable economy. 

This year, we re-examined our work and shifted our attention in big ways: racial equity and economic justice now have a front seat in initiatives we are launching to unite capital with marginalized communities.

Why? We're living in a time of unprecedented wealth inequality and economic injustice. We believe it will take all of us working together to resist those who are extracting wealth, not only from marginalized communities but from working people, the middle class, rural economies, mid-tier cities—all of us.

What would it look like if we transformed $1B or more of untapped capital into community wealth and connected thousands of wealth-holders and creators pursuing a shared vision?

It would look like our Common Future.

BALLE is announcing our new name, brand, and identity—Common Future—to signal our commitment to economies that work for all of us.

Follow us today at CoCap!

CoCap kicked off yesterday, bringing 200+ leaders from across the country together in Oakland to co-create a more equitable economy. Conversations have covered funding strategies for cooperatives, indigenous community wealth-building, shifting health capital to community wealth, building rural ecosystems, decolonizing access to capital, and more.

Follow the action on Twitter!       #EconomyforUs       #CoCap19