The Inclusive Capital Collective (ICC) is a group of over 90 community fund managers and entrepreneur support organizations who have been designing and developing shared technical and financial infrastructure for aggregating and deploying  financial capital and other resources to BIPOC communities.

A joint project of Common Future and Zebras Unite, and funded by the Surdna Foundation, the ICC is motivated by the need for better “plumbing” to drive capital to BIPOC entrepreneurs. Its purpose is to overcome systemic racism through the equitable access to capital.

The ICC achieves this purpose by aiding and amplifying the ingenuity of capital innovators and service providers who have been developing innovative solutions for their communities such as real estate based strategies in Chicago, Colorado and Atlanta, or character based loan products in Indian Country, and by connecting them in a jointly owned and governed network.

This work was important before the pandemic, and it has only become more urgent now. The ICC has just concluded a 6 month strategic roadmapping process, and we invite you to join us for a conversation about its next phase of implementation.

Welcome &  Setting the scene: Mekaelia Davies, Surdna Foundation

Shifting Capital to Shift Power: Rodney Foxworth, Common Future

ICC purpose, process & practice: Astrid Scholz, Zebras Unite

Designing for change in this moment: Vanessa Roanhorse, Co-op Capital & member of the ICC Steering Group

Inclusive Capital Collective - Funder Briefing No. 2