ABOUT US
Investing in the communities you affect creates wealth for your organization
CWD uses a unique, community-based strategy to carve out a bedrock of untapped investment streams and deployable strategies that you can use to wisely grow and operate.
Community investing is a dependable, measurable cycle of wealth — and it’s a criminally under-leveraged strategy
Community-driven wealth isn’t just our philosophy or moral stance—it’s our practical, time-proven strategy for sustainably helping organizations and their communities grow and thrive together. By strategically listening to your community’s needs and investing in key stakeholders at the local level, you gain access to the knowledge and resources your organization needs to scale sustainably. CWD believes in building bridges between aligned organizations to facilitate collaborative innovation across the ecosystem that surrounds your products and services.
What on earth is community wealth?
Simply put, community wealth is the total monetary value, growth potential, and social power of a group or organization. It’s an unbelievably complex and interconnected river system of goals, investments, technology, culture, and regulatory pressures, and it’s what we at CWD have been studying and practicing for more than a decade.
Our job is to build capital for your organization and overcome the obstacles preventing you from accessing the community wealth already available in your ecosystem. We work to connect you to your community ecosystem so that you can create a perpetual cycle of wealth between you and the communities you serve.
The 5 Forms of Community Wealth
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Financial Capital
The material currency that can be accessed by a community for the purpose of trading goods and services.
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Cultural Capital
The established presence of community values, norms, and traditions that foster collective participation.
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Social Capital
All of the people (and all of their goals, fears, capabilities, and motivations) who participate in a community.
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Industrial Capital
The total value of digital, physical, and fixed assets that contribute to the production of goods and services by and for a community.
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Natural Capital
The value of all raw materials and resources that can be accessed by a community to produce goods and services.