CEO, BALLE
Rodney Foxworth is the Chief Executive of Common Future (formerly Business of Alliance for Local Living Economies, “BALLE”), a national network fighting to build economically empowered communities through equitable approaches to entrepreneurship, investing, and ownership.
Rodney’s career has focused on social entrepreneurship, philanthropy, impact investing, and economic development. Most recently, he founded Invested Impact, a consulting firm and intermediary to better connect philanthropic and impact investment capital to underrepresented social entrepreneurs. Foxworth has advised institutions such as T. Rowe Price Foundation, Legg Mason, Red Bull, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Aspen Institute, and Calvert Impact Capital.
Rodney serves on the board of directors of Nonprofit Finance Fund, the steering committee of Justice Funders, and the advisory board of Social Capital Markets (SOCAP). He has spoken at Social Finance Forum, Council on Foundations, Global Philanthropy Forum, SOCAP, Open Markets Institute, Skoll World Forum, Brookings Institution, and other stages. He has authored essays in publications such as Boston Review, Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Nonprofit Quarterly, and has been featured in Conscious Company, Devex, Forbes, ImpactAlpha, Inside Philanthropy, and The New York Times. He is sought-after for his expertise on the racial wealth gap, disrupting philanthropy and impact investing, inclusive entrepreneurship and economic development, and the intersections of these themes.
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