Black farmers in rural Georgia formed a trust in the 1960s to buy land; today, community groups use the model to fight gentrification in Atlanta

Nikishka Iyengar, founder and CEO of The Guild is named a 2025 Loeb Fellow

Across the country, neighborhood groups are uniting to fund mixed-use developments that meet housing and business demands, giving locals a place to live, work and learn new skills.

For this post, we interviewed Nikishka Iyengar, founder & CEO of The Guild, about prioritizing collective wellbeing, a model for community ownership and the importance of self-care when engaging with collective trauma.

So many people say property owners are pricing them out of their homes. Now one group is working to not only keep that from happening but says its goal is to lower what renters are paying.

From Atlanta to Burlington, four financial activists offer a window into their work flowing resources to front-line communities.