Writing &
Resources
Serving the field in the US for almost a decade, we have supported many to transition to steward-ownership.
Below you will find a resource repository of case studies, interviews, reports, free books we’ve written and more.
Expanding Steward-Ownership through ‘Assets in Common’
"Assets in Common" is a new book that proposes increasing connectivity between assets lays a path to creating an economy that works for everyone.
Infrastructure for Shared Ownership: A Research Program
Our goal is to share actionable insights on how to build the missing infrastructure necessary for the shared ownership movement to expand by an order of magnitude.
Purpose Futures Fellowship: Emerging Fund Managers - Final Report
We accelerate the implementation of shared ownership and finance models by incubating the country’s most visionary and pragmatic leaders. What makes our approach unique is that we get our hands dirty.
Purpose 2021 Annual Report
As we look forward to our next chapter in 2022, please explore Purpose’s contributions to equitable ownership, key areas of engagement, and achievements over the course of 2021.
Transitioning into community stewardship.
How the Purpose Foundation is helping one community-led initiative design and implement community stewardship.
Purpose Future Fellows: Emerging Fund Manager Cohort
We are so excited to announce the launch of our Purpose Futures Fellowship for emerging fund managers. The program brings together 11 incredible fellowship projects and 25 fellows working on capital vehicles for shared ownership of business, real estate, and equitable investments.
Understanding the Perpetual Purpose Trust
Purpose Trusts are the primary legal form for Stewardship models in the US. In this blog post, we provide an overview of the structure and answer some of the most FAQs.
Top 10 FAQ’s on Stewardship Models
Understanding shared ownership isn’t always easy. We’ve gathered our top 10 FAQs to help you better understand what steward-ownership is and why people are implementing it.
Building Mixed Income Neighborhoods
Trust Neighborhoods is blazing the trail for a new stewardship model, designed to not only protect affordability intergenerationally and support the emergence of mixed-income neighborhoods, but also ensure community members participate in value created through re-development.The good news is — it’s already working.
Purpose Futures Fellowship: Emerging Fund Managers
We are excited to announce the launch of a new PFF cohort for Emerging Fund Managers. The program is designed for investors and fund managers who are seriously considering, or currently working on long-term oriented capital vehicles innovating on ownership, governance and financing.
An Employee Community Ownership Trust in Oakland, California
Over the past couple years, we’ve worked with Matt to develop an Employee & Community Ownership Trust (ECOT) model designed to protect this mission over the long-term.
In this series, we’ll dive into how Firebrand has transitioned long-term control over to community members, created a profit-sharing and employee inclusion program, and tied investors’ upside to employee benefit:
MIT Solve + Purpose’s Expert Sessions (Videos)
For-Purpose Entrepreneurship is a webinar and podcast series exploring business models for social enterprises. The Purpose Team sat down with MIT Solve to discuss alternative financing and opportunities for shared enterprise ownership.
Purpose Interview: Trust Neighborhoods
Kavya Shankar talks with Camille Canon on how the model works and shares thoughts and insights on the work and mission of Trust Neighborhoods.
Purpose Interview: Matt Kreutz of Firebrand Bakery
We sat down with Matt Kreutz, founder of Firebrand Bankery, to talk about his background, the vision behind the company, and its transition to a stewardship model. And baking, of course.
A Mission-driven Publisher’s Succession to Shared Ownership
Berrett-Koehler is preserving and extending its mission of “connecting people and ideas to create a world that works for all”. In its nearly three decades of operation as a social impact publisher, BK has become a laboratory for making the world better, both internally and externally. Now, it's modeling an innovative approach to shared ownership.