LOCALISM
How I Became a Localist
Most of our big systems—education, healthcare, government, business—are failing our communities. What if we stopped trying to fix them? Deborah Frieze says it’s not possible to change big systems—we can only abandon them and start over or offer hospice to what’s dying. This TEDx Talk explores the underlying beliefs in our culture that continue to prop up the global mindset and shares a radical theory of change that reveals how localism is the hope of the future—and you have a critical role to play. (2016) Watch on Youtube
INTEGRATED CAPITAL
Using Integrated Capital to Build Community Wealth and Power
If we wish to address the growing wealth gap and ecological challenges of our times, we need to create the opportunity for communities to own and control their future. Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker hosts a fireside chat with Deborah Frieze about how to deploy integrated capital to build community wealth and power. (2023) Watch on Youtube
Building Vibrant Communities
Social Capital, Power, and Access
Deborah Frieze joins Building Vibrant Communities podcast hosts Bridget Anderson and Jonathan Berk to talk about how ownership and control over assets are critical to achieving equity and how circulating dollars locally is essential to wealth building.(2020) Listen On Spotify
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Emerging from Crisis through Inclusion
Covid-19 has spread across the globe bringing unpredictable challenges to which none of us has all the answers. How can diversity and inclusion help us build the future we want? Panel discussion with Deborah Frieze, Ingrid Srinath, and Tulaine Montgomery. (2020) Watch on Youtube
IMPACT INVESTING
Lioness Changemaker: Deborah Frieze
Bobbie Carlton of Lioness Magazine interviews Deborah Frieze, who defines impact investing, describes its evolution, and outlines Boston Impact Initiative’s mission and model. (2020) Watch on Youtube
RISK AND RETURN
Turning Impact Investing Upside Down
Forbes columnist Devin Thorpe interviews Deborah Frieze on how biomimicry–the practice of applying nature’s solutions to complex problems–can help us close the racial wealth divide by flipping the investment risk-return ratio. (2019) Watch on Forbes
ADDRESSING INEQUALITY
Remaking the Economy
In this webinar, NPQ Senior Editor Steve Dubb interviews Gar Alperovitz, Edgar Villanueva, Maliki Kenyatta Yakini and Deborah Frieze about the core principles that can guide efforts to build a more democratic economy. They’ll discuss the role nonprofits can play in addressing income and wealth inequality, and what it means to take an “ecosystem approach” to building alternative structures and institutions. (2018) Watch on YouTube
INVESTING FOR JUSTICE
Investing for Justice at SOCAP
What does investing to close the racial wealth divide really require from us? Jessica Norwood and Konda Mason of the Runway Project interview Deborah Frieze and Mark Watson of Boston Impact Initiative on the mainstage at SOCAP 18. (2018) Watch on Youtube
HOPE AND HOPELESSNESS
Ākāśa Interview with Deborah Frieze
Deborah Frieze reflects on hope and what gives her the strength to continue her positive work. Interview by Ākāśa Innovation, a non-profit social enterprise and home to a collective of sensemakers and changemakers who work together to prepare, inspire and empower sustainability leaders of today and tomorrow to create a world for all life to flourish in. (2014) Watch on Youtube
WALK OUT WALK ON
Daring to Live the Future Now
Life’s approach to change is complex, emergent, unpredictable and self-organizing. What would it be like if we looked at change from a living systems view? Deborah Frieze shares a perspective on walking out and walking on with participants at the International Youth Initiative Program’s Initiative Forum in Jarna, Sweden. (2011) Watch on Vimeo