We deployed $250K in emergency funds. More is needed. Dear friends, Yesterday, Common Future committed and deployed 10% of our operating budget, $250,000, in emergency COVID-19 funding to our network of local economy leaders.  W…

Four perspectives   "My question to donors, funders, and trustees: When will you get angry enough to stop waiting?” —Rodney Foxworth, CEO at Common Future in The Need for Black Rage in Ph…

Announcing new website & 2019 lookback We have an announcement! Common Future went far and wide in 2019. Now we have a new home to tell stories from the network. Check out commonfuture.co 6 highlights from 2019.   (because we couldn't choose 5) …

Give something (up) this holiday season. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Give something (up) this holiday season. …

Are we absolving ourselves with #GivingTuesday? A case for ending the capital shuffle around Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and #GivingTuesday and starting a true “Shift Capital” movement. Do you need to give on #GivingTuesday? …

Big things in 2019. Bigger things in 2020. Reflections from CoCap and what's ahead this year for Common Future. 3 days, 260 leaders, countless conversations. Reflections from CoCap, SOCAP, and what's ahead for Common Fu…

BALLE becomes Common Future. Sharing our new brand, identity, and vision for (re)building the economy. BALLE becomes Common Future. Sharing our new brand, identity, and vision for (re)building the economy. …