This is the first in a series of interview/conversations with people involved in collaborative and democratic approaches to moving money in service to a Just Transition ("co-funding" for short). These sessions are part of a "discovery process" that will inform the design of an action-learning lab in 2021 to support co-funding practices for networks and organizations. The interviews are hosted by the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory (TRCC) in partnership with the Regenerosity Network and the Now What?! global gathering and gift economy.
Kevin Jones is the co-founder of GatherLab, an initiative that is creating new ways to move the world beyond sustainability, beyond impact. They design and produce innovative convenings, working groups, and experiences that bring together an emerging community of bold, visionary investors, entrepreneurs, and thinkers looking to transform climate, cities and communities, and capital, for good.
Jones is a serial entrepreneur successful (with his wife Rosa Lee Harden as business partner) eight out of eight times. (His one business failure happens to be the one he did without her). Kevin co created SOCAP, the worlds largest impact investing and social enterprise gathering.
He led an unsuccessful malaria project in Mozambique and is a founding general partner of Good Capital’s Social Enterprise Expansion Fund (SEEF), which invested in fair trade and literacy. That fund recently had the first successful exit from a wholly fair trade company. He is interested in being part of an investment vehicle that will compensate the producers like the investors are compensated.
He lives on a farm on a river with two dogs near Asheville, NC.
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