Seed innovation.
Lift neighborhoods.
Grow community wealth.
We’re an equitable economic development advisory firm helping transform disinvested communities into thriving, inclusive places to live and to work.
Our vision: to seed innovation, lift communities of poverty, and grow inclusive community equity and family wealth.
Our people: Founding partners Bruce Katz, Roberta Achtenberg, and Lori Bamberger — former HUD colleagues — have lifetime commitments to transforming communities into thriving places to live and to work.
Our tactics: to imagine, engineer, and then carry out and scale transformative and equitable community change, by knitting together our intersectional expertise in policy formulation, partnership building, program design, and finance and development.
Our work includes
Identifying and readying a continuum of inclusive public and private equity & capital sources
Drafting vision statements
Piloting innovation
Crafting policy and program design, infused with best practices
Leading public/private initiatives
Convening and educating stakeholders
Assembling & bridging partners, industries, and governments
Building cross-sectoral networks
Providing educational briefings to elected officials, business leaders & staff
Analyzing federal, state, and local economic landscape context and opportunity
”We are humbled by the opportunity to help leaders change the trajectories of people and places too often left behind”
— ABK City Advisors