Seed Commons

The current system of finance is programmed to extract profit despite the harm this inflicts on the people we care about and the places we call home. It is a system that reinforces historical racial inequities and threatens the health of the planet we all share. That’s why we are creating something different: a national CDFI built as a cooperative network for non-extractive finance, one that advances workplace democracy and grows the capacity of communities to determine their own economic future, starting with the workers the current system excludes. Our investments are having real impact, right now, on the lives of workers across the country—and are laying the foundations for a new financial system in which people have control of capital, instead of capital controlling people.