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Author:Jessica Kellner

Building the Regenerative Economy: Innovators in Financing for Underrepresented Groups

Building the Regenerative Economy: Innovators in Financing for Underrepresented Groups

How SUMA Wealth is Making Money Fun and Easy for Young Latine Americans

As a content marketing agency working exclusively with impact business, Bark Media gets a behind-the-scenes and holistic view of the work toward systems change across sectors such as regenerative agriculture, climate action, and democracy reform. One area that promises the most potential for transformative change lies in the shift toward a regenerative economy. If we seek … Continued

How SoLo Funds Is Building Financial Power in Underserved Communities

How SoLo Funds Is Building Financial Power in Underserved Communities

Building the Regenerative Economy: Innovators in Financing for Underrepresented Groups

As a content marketing agency working exclusively with impact business, Bark Media gets a behind-the-scenes and holistic view of the work toward systems change across sectors such as regenerative agriculture, climate action, and democracy reform. One area that promises the most potential for transformative change lies in the shift toward a regenerative economy. If we … Continued

Operating Through Empathy: Barbershop Owner Creates Community Change, One Head at a Time

Operating Through Empathy: Barbershop Owner Creates Community Change, One Head at a Time

Barber and Philanthropist Provides a Platform for Social Change, But Not Without Facing Challenges

As the owner of 180V Salon in Kansas City, Missouri, barber and philanthropist Joey Thomas spends his days listening to what the people in his hyper-segregated city want and need. Barbershops are one of the cultural cornerstones of the Black community, so Thomas has used this platform to help discover and fill needs not being met … Continued

Uplifting Community for Shared Success: How This Founder Makes Massage Therapy Careers Accessible

Uplifting Community for Shared Success: How This Founder Makes Massage Therapy Careers Accessible

Monique Waters Believes Solutions Are Interconnected — and Builds Community Around Them

Monique Waters, the owner of Massage Amani in the Kansas City metro area, has built her career around holistic wellness: an approach to health that considers mind, body, and spirit in the journey toward healing. She believes that solutions are interconnected. While Waters uses massage therapy to help her clients achieve relaxation and a deeper mind-body … Continued

Designing a Better Future for Racial Diversity in the Fashion Industry

Designing a Better Future for Racial Diversity in the Fashion Industry

Sean Horton’s Atelier in Kansas City is Tailoring New Opportunities for Diverse Designers in the Midwest

As our cultural consciousness shifts amid a global pandemic and reckoning with racism, fashion is one of many industries holding a mirror to its own lack of representation. While Black-owned brands are gaining the long-overdue recognition they deserve, Black designers continue to struggle for representation. According to New York Magazine, “Within the Council of Fashion Designers … Continued

Innovative Nonprofit Calls on the Power of Community to Fund Black-Owned Businesses in Kansas City

Innovative Nonprofit Calls on the Power of Community to Fund Black-Owned Businesses in Kansas City

GIFTKC Launches Replicable Model to Support Local Black-Owned Businesses and Challenge Systemic Racism

After the police killing of George Floyd last summer, racial justice advocates have shone a spotlight on how racism is deeply embedded in American systems — the economy being one of them. In line with their mission to transform capitalism as a force for good, many Certified B Corporations are focusing their efforts on becoming … Continued