Back sustainability. Back resilience. Back community wealth. Back Home

No! Our goal is for each Back Home fund to be open to everyone.

Our goal is to formally launch at some point in 2027.

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• Sustainability means meeting today’s needs without using up what future generations will depend on
• Resilience means being able to recover quickly when hard times hit
• Community wealth means that the people who live and work in a place own more of what gets built there, so profits and decision-making power stay in the community

Yes. Investing in ways that are aligned with social and environmental values is called “impact investing.”

We’re still figuring out the model, but this is our best guess:

Back Home will create place-based funds for diasporas and their allies to invest in. We’ll collect and pool investments from individual and institutional investors in the United States. Then, we’ll lend that money to intermediary organizations in the corresponding country, who will lend the funds to end borrowers. Based on the terms of the loan, the end borrowers will repay the intermediaries, the intermediaries will repay Back Home, and Back Home will repay its investors.

Yes. Calvert Impact and Working Capital for Community Needs raise investment capital from individuals and institutional investors in the US, pool the funds, and lend to values-driven borrowers abroad.

With over 20 years of experience in the social impact and non-profit sectors, Anand Jahi (né Goodridge) has spent his career supporting working and middle class families build wealth by leveraging strategies that benefit the environment and broader community. As an independent consultant, Anand has advised philanthropic foundations, mission-driven businesses, community loan funds, and national non-profit organizations.

The descendant of Barbadian immigrants to the United States, Anand is passionate about building bridges between the island and the diaspora that are rooted in mutual benefit, respect, and justice.