Community wealth building has gained significant momentum, but too often the communities most affected by structural inequality are least likely to benefit from it. What does it take to do this work in a way that genuinely centres race equity, long-term organising and community power? And what does that mean for how funders use their own resources to support it?
Led by Power to Prosper, this session draws on their experience of building community wealth through long-term, place-based organising alongside communities most impacted by poverty and debt. Rather than a traditional panel, it centres the voices of community partners alongside organisational learning, exploring what genuine community wealth building requires in practice, what gets in the way, and what funders can do to make it possible.
Participants will leave with a clearer sense of what it means to resource this work: not through policy commitments, but through long-term investment, flexible funding and a willingness to invest in the conditions that make community power real.
This session will be particularly relevant if you are thinking about how to resource community wealth building in ways that centre equity and genuine community leadership.