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Power Station

Apr 30, 2018

What happens when a financial adviser for high-wealth individuals takes his talents to a new platform: building wealth and assets for low-income and communities of color? Joseph Leitmann-Santa Cruz tells the story of his transition to Capital Area Asset Builders, the power of the Earned Income Tax Credit campaign to...


Apr 20, 2018

As Dedrick tells us, the nation's racial wealth divide is a legacy of centuries of public policies enacted to favor White Americans and bar Black Americans from economic prosperity. That historical context and the impacts of the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009, have generated entire communities of low-wealth. Research by...


Apr 20, 2018

Marla has mastered community engagement and policy advocacy in Latino communities. It starts with providing families with the highest level of support for starting businesses, buying homes, challenging and winning repairs to unsound rental housing conditions. LEDC’s success, she says, is a result of a committed staff,...


Apr 20, 2018

In the opening episode of Power Station, community development innovator Ron Hantz talks about changing up old paradigms and, as he explains it, elevating the vibrational levels in communities. Ron is an expert in financing and developing housing in disinvested communities of color. He believes that nonprofits must...