Meet our Fifth Class of Fellows
Dear friends of Invested Faith,
As promised, this month’s newsletter comes to you with such exciting and hopeful reports of so much good, world-changing work: today you meet the newest class of Invested Faith Fellows and hear about their work: an urban monastery and apiary; a mobile grocery store; a bicycle manufacturing business; a line of resort wear; handmade bath and body products. Sound unusual? Read on!
At Invested Faith we are always at work listening for stories of faithful people who are working to build social enterprise that challenges unjust systems, meeting them, and offering support for their efforts. The joy of introducing them to all of you is one of the best parts of our work!
Of course, we couldn’t do our work without your faithful investment; another critical piece of our work is inviting you, your church, your foundation, to be part of making this work a reality.
Your tax deductible gifts make all of this tremendous work a reality: offering churches at the end of their institutional life cycles a hopeful legacy option for their assets AND funding the work of innovative world changers.
Over the next few weeks you’ll be hearing from us with giving options that will empower your faithful participation in God’s good work through Invested Faith. As you consider your annual distributions and end of year giving, please don’t miss this opportunity to have immediate impact.
I’d love to talk with you individually about how to make that happen, so please reach out and let’s keep healing the world together.
Gratefully,
P.S. Here’s the best way to give now!
meet our fellows
In October of 2022, we announced our fifth class of Invested Faith Fellows. You’ll be hearing more about them in the coming weeks.
Tiffany Terrell
A Better Way Grocers
Albany, Georgia
The mission of A Better Way Grocers is to drive nutritious food into communities struggling with food access issues across southwest Georgia. Using a retro-fitted school bus as a one-aisle grocery store, Terrell and her team offer reasonably priced, healthy and nutritious food to local communities, along with health education to address chronic food-related illnesses such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Kit Evans-Ford
Argrow’s House
Davenport, Iowa
Argrow’s House is a safe space where free services are offered daily for women healing from violence in the greater Quad Cities area. Named after Dr. Evans-Ford's mother who was a survivor of domestic violence, this successful social enterprise provides women the opportunity to earn a living wage by creating bath and body products in a safe space that celebrates who they are.
Drew Nagy
Living Water Community Center
Richmond, Virginia
Living Water Community Center is an attempt to reimagine what a faith community looks like and how it engages with the local ecosystem. With the goal of engaging a community committed to the flourishing of all of life on earth, Living Water is a community center, bee sanctuary, and monastery and offers individuals the chance to participate in contemplative practices such as yoga, meditation, mindful beekeeping and urban farming.
Stephanie Mayer
NARY
New York, New York
NARY was founded by three sisters in May of 2020. Named after their Cambodian mother, Phannary, the company was inspired by their mother's amazing story of survival of the Khmer Rouge that occurred in the late seventies in Cambodia. Utilizing the fashion education each sister attained through college and working in San Francisco and New York City, NARY produces beautiful, ethical, and sustainable clothing and products.
Olatunji Oboi Reed
Equiticity
Chicago, Illinois
The Freedom & Culture Bicycle Cooperative is Equiticity's vision for manufacturing bicycles in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the Westside of Chicago. Explicitly developed to remove the generational cycle of poverty, create living wage jobs, provide transferable and career-oriented job skills to young adults, and reduce hyper-local violence, the company will manufacture beautifully designed, well built, and premium priced bicycles, with young adults from the neighborhood in the role of worker-owners of the cooperative who will share collectively in the profits.
in the news
Invested Faith Fellow Lizzy Case, founder of ARRAYED, was highlighted by our friends and partners at Glean Network as part of their "How I Built This Series." ARRAYED is a liberative people-first, planet-focused Christian apparel brand. Read the full interview here.
resourced
RESOURCED is our group coaching and resource program for Invested Faith Fellows. Our group met in October with Alison Masutani, VP of Operations for the Partners in Development Foundation in Hawaii. She offered tips and advice on human resource questions for non-profits and small businesses. Thanks so much to Alison for sharing her wisdom with our Fellows!
get involved
As Amy mentioned above, we are moving into the Giving Time of the year. You can easily make a donation to Invested Faith here or schedule a conversation with Invested Faith and find out how you can become involved.
Keep reading for several specific ways you can be a part of the Invested Faith Community.
Request a phone call. Sometimes the old fashioned way is the best way. We'll be happy to schedule a phone call with youto answer any questions you might have about invested Faith and give you some ideas about how you can be involved.
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Introduce us! Maybe you know someone who fits our criteria for an Invested Faith Fellow: rooted in faith, working for justice and addressing systemic problems in their community while building a sustainable financial model? At Invested Faith, we don't do typical grant applications. Read more about our criteria and how to apply here.
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