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Bypassing Banks & Disrupting Mortgages with Somali Immigrants
by Kevin Jones
I was recently chatting with some Episcopal clergy and theologian friends of mine and my wife’s colleagues. The following is how I described my idea to solve housing shortages for Somalian immigrants. An imam who’s built mosques or islamic centers in 30 cities is going to get 200 people to collectively buy two houses, startingContinue ...Somali led Minneapolis partnership coalesces
by Kevin Jones
Star Finance, a Somali led social enterprise bringing a disruptive, community-created home ownership solution within reach of muslims in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, is partnering with Mission Driven Finance, a multicultural investment bank with a track record in Islamic finance, to build the plumbing to make the faith compliant financial housingContinue ...How SOCAP Changed “Two Pocket Thinking”
by Kevin Jones
This is the second blog post in the series on collective behavior change. It addresses one of the key questions we use in the Transform labs; whose thinking needs to change. Read the first post here. SOCAP, the world’s largest impact investing and social enterprise conference, was born in Bill Gates’ office. We wanted to invest in a fairContinue ...Catfish and Collective Behavior Change
by Kevin Jones
This is the first of three stories about collective behavior I have been working on. I am writing them to Calvin Nguyen, co founder of Brain Mind. I’ve been invited into Brain Mind’s ecosystem and my focus is on collective behavior change. In other words – what we need to do to ensure our collective survivalContinue ...A Perfect Example of a Systems Entrepreneur
by Kevin Jones
How do you get 1,000 people in your community to invest $500 to solve a problem the community has? If you are Said Sheikh Abdi, you start by having conversations with other Somalis, people who have a big network, sometimes taking an hour and a half. His pitch is simple: what he’s proposing can solveContinue ...