Red Mountain Foundry
 Economic Justice Incubator

Birmingham's iconic statute of Vulcan, the Roman god of the forge. The largest cast iron statute in the world.

Named after Birmingham's Red Mountain and the city's Vulcan statute -- the representation of Birmingham as the steel city of the South and the foundry that provided the materials that built so much of America -- the Red Mountain Foundry and Forge exists to build something new -- an economy where all can thrive.

The Forge envisions instruments that enable people to circumvent impediments to escaping poverty, starting with the big three: Housing Insecurity, Wage Insufficiency and Opportunistic Overcharging. Creates Alternate Advancement Protocols (AAPs) that help people survive even in a predatory economic system. Whereas the Incubator partners with others to build the infrastructure that can support a new kind of economy and society.

Artistic rendering of people on the arduous journey to escape America's first form of enslavement.

Collaborations:

Level Up Tech  - Co-founded with Paul Reynolds, CEO of iPeerion Technologies and with support from the iPeerion team, Level Up is an anti-poverty tech platform that enables everyone to use their economic power to create a more robust, vital and sustainable economy. The work is based on a unique combination of MMI's deep socioeconomic understanding of impoverishment as a systemic problem and iPeerion's longstanding commitment to the development of socially redemptive technology and tools that foster economic sustainability. Tech tools include:

Purchasing Power Fair Marketplace -- An ecommerce platform where people can buy good-quality products – everything from baby formula to auto insurance – at fair prices. The Purchasing Power Fair Marketplace enables anyone and everyone to engage in economic advocacy on behalf of both others and themselves, simply by choosing products by companies that are committed to not effectively charging the poor more.

Certified "For All" Employer -- A B-Corp-like process that assesses companies on their commitment to diversity, inclusion and economic fairness. Highlights companies that are dedicated to being places where all can thrive.

Home Rentalship and Ownership Platform - "No App Fee" home rental platform and "Ultra-Affordable" home purchase platform.

HomeWorks Homes - Founded by MMI board members Crystal Crawford, and Damien Broadnax, and based on Crystal's lived experience with poverty and homelessness, HomeWorks is a Social benefit real estate firm that makes home ownership a reality for low-income workers by offering micro-condos, mini-co-ops, and community-owned manufactured home lots -- all with credit non-contingent financing included, with favorable interest rates and with minimal down-payments.

Home ownership is the fastest, most effective way to build wealth, and today, is the primary reason the average Euro American household has six times the household wealth as the average African American household.

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