Crowdfunding Equitable Development: Cutting Deals for Good
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  • April 19 - 19, 2022
    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    Event: 2022 ULI Spring Meeting
    Session Type: Concurrent Session
    Session Capacity: N/A


    New funding models—including crowdfunding platforms and emerging neighborhood wealth-building investment vehicles such as neighborhood REITs—are creating innovative ways of funding equitable and sustainable development projects. Enhancing community and household wealth, increasing economic mobility, and diversifying capital sources are some of the goals of these new forms of collective ownership. This session will explore the dynamic landscape for crowdfunding and shared-ownership landscape, and real estate and provide insights on the limitations and benefits for investors, developers, and communities....
Session Speakers
Bartholomew Joanna
Organization: O'Hara Development Partners


Joanna Jane Bartholomew is known as an Economic Change Agent. After years under the real estate arm of her father, Joanna Jane took her academics skills from social work and finance to boldly birth O'Hara Development Partners, a community development company focusing on the heart of the people and the quality of their living by renovating and building residential and commercial properties in urba

Mackay Anna Lucey


Anna has spent her career innovating and field-testing concepts of social impact in real estate. She led the first Regulation A crowd-investing effort for new construction in the United States ($1.5M, the Fair-Haired Dumbbell) and raised a tranche of crowd-invested equity from everyday Oregonians for a homelessness project in just 68 hours ($300,000, Jolene's First Cousin). She has pioneered ne

McClory Taidgh Hezekiah


Taidgh H. McClory is the founder of T.H. McClory, LLC, a leading Massachusetts SDO certified minority business enterprise (MBE) and social impact enterprise dedicated to devising and implementing equity, inclusion & diversity strategies for the commercial real estate industry in New England and across the US. The purpose of THM's work is to design economic inclusion strategies that build capacity

Singh Charu
Organization: Energy Impact Partners LP


Over the past 20 years, Charu Singh has worked in the non-profit, public, and private sectors as a practitioner and investor to create positive social and environmental impact. She is the Director of Portfolio Management at Emergent Capital Partners, a Southeast Asia-focused PERE firm. She leads investment strategy, portfolio creation, and risk management efforts across the firm’s por
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