Building Real Wealth & Economic Justice
Equity Design is committed to building communities of resilience with a focus on economic justice and real wealth. We believe that a resilience community necessitates learning together, partnering and sharing through mutual aid, and taking social action. Equity Design provides a range of services, including financial consultation and mortgage services through Mortgage Trust - all within a holistic, community oriented paradigm. Stay connected by joining our e-newsletter list. Join the dialogue through our blog.
Blog
- Move Your Money Southern Oregon
Real Wealth of Portland, in partnership with Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice Southern Oregon Move Your Money campaign over the holiday weekend.
- Hope and Food
Have we lost the way of hope? When I say “we”, I mean we “modern, affluent, developed, able, self-actualized” folk. When I say “way”, I mean a real, rooted, dirt under the fingernails, not merely ethereal or the sort of stuff simply for a Sunday-School discussion.
- When a rain barrel is more than a rain barrel
Two years ago, during one of our first forays into urban homesteading, my Father’s Day present from Aimee was permission to install our first rain-barrel. It was a romantic thought to me. “Let’s not waste the water-from-heaven gift (even though we receive it some 300 plus days a year), let’s harvest it.”
Changing the Story
What stories guide our culture? How is the story working for you?Communities of Real Wealth
What is wealth and how does it relate to a community’s resilience?Taking Action
What is your next personal step? What can you do to build real wealth in your community?Upcoming Events
- MYM-PDX at Pioneer Square
It’s time to Move Your Money! Make your way down to Pioneer Courthouse Square for a big outdoor celebration of our local economy and the role local banking plays in it. Representatives of local banks and credit unions will be on hand to provide you with information about how you can move your money out of the big banks and into a financial institution that supports our local economy.
- Opening Weekend Started Out With A Bang
COME JOIN US FOR “LORD, SAVE US FROM YOUR FOLLOWERS”
AT FOX TOWER THIS WEEKEND
Many of our dear friends have been working for 4 years on this great new film. It is finally in theaters. Please join us for this entertaining exploration of cultural discourse and religious exchange.
- Economic and Environmental Crises: Econvergence Conference
Authors and Activists Noam Chomsky and Derek Jensen to present Keynotes at Econvergence Conference!