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Should Foundations Mix Profit-making with Charity?
Find out why we agree with Stephen Viederman that they should...when deploying their endowment assets. Read more
Support the Financial Transactions Tax
Capital Institute is encouraging individual members of our community to sign the Americans for Financial Reform's petition in support of a Financial Transactions Tax. Find the petition here. And find out more about why we support the FTT by reading John Fullerton's most recent Future of Finance blogpost on the topic.
Juliet Schor Describes Her Plenitude Model at Kick Off to Demos’ Sustainable Progress Initiative
We attended the first event of Demos' new Sustainable Progress Initiative, where Juliet Schor talked about her latest book True Wealth and the plenitude model, which calls for Americans to work fewer hours and reap the benefits of both “time wealth” and reduced carbon footprints. Find out more about the evening here. And read our Braintrust Profile of Juliet here.
Shift Change: The Documentary
Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work tells the stories of employee-owned businesses, and highlights, among other projects, Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperatives. The filmmakers, Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin, hope to encourage support for, and real world evidence of the success of, employee ownership models. Read more
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Our "Copernican Moment"
View this interview with Capital Institute Founder John Fullerton, produced by our friend Katie Teague, whose documentary Money & Life is in the final editing stage. John speaks candidly about the challenges we face as we navigate up against and beyond the planet's boundaries, and his fundamental optimism that a "Copernican moment" will give rise to a new economic system that operates within them before it is too late.
The National Manufacturing Renaissance
After having been written off as a declining, noncompetitive sector, manufacturing is now rising on the radar screens of American policymakers, social justice advocates, and a new breed of environmentalists who see it as both a catalyst for economic revival and as offering the solutions to many of our ecological and societal ills.
We believe the National Manufacturing Renaissance Campaign—an innovative collaboration among manufacturers, local communities, labor, education and government— first incubated in Chicago, is one of the most promising initiatives of the manufacturing “revival.” It will be the subject of our next Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy study.
Read about Dan Swinney—managing director of the National Manufacturing Renaissance Campaign here, and read highlights from an interview with Mike Locker, a long-time business consultant to the manufacturing sector. Look for upcoming “work in progress” reports on the National Manufacturing Renaissance study at Capital Institute. (Photo credit: The Center for Labor and Community Research)
Healing Finance: The Patient Capital Collaborative Field Study

In 2007, after a 20-year investment management career that had culminated in his co-founding of a thriving private equity firm, Sky Lance found himself searching for ways he could use his investment skills for a higher purpose. Today Lance is one of two general partners in an innovative investment practice, the Patient Capital Collaborative. PCC brings to bear the collective expertise of a group of angel investors to help nurture and fund start-up and early-stage companies attempting to make meaningful social and environmental impact in the world. Download the pdf of the PCC Field Study or read it here.
The Future of Finance Blog
This is a take on the debt crisis in a finite world written by our friends at the Center for the...
This former banker, and now sustainability investor and humble blogger, will not offer grand predictions for 2012. Forecasting in a world...
Capital Lab
Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy
What does investing in a resilient economy look like? The Field Guide illuminates business models and financial innovations that are enabling the emergence of a new economy. Read more
The Third Millennium Economy
A Capital Lab initiative, "The Third Millennium Economy" constructs a roadmap of where we are and where we need to get to in order to transition to a truly sustainable economic system. Read more
Money & Life Documentary
Capital Institute is a content advisor to "Money & Life," a documentary that asks profound questions about the purpose of money. Check out the trailer, synopsis and more. Read more



