Red Mountain Foundry
Poverty-Zero Incubator and Accelerator
Birmingham's iconic statute of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and the forge. Vulcan, the largest cast iron statue in the world, sits at the top of Red Mountain, overlooking the city that was built by its abundance of three natural resources -- red iron ore, limestone and coal.
Red Mountain Foundry
generates ideas, pioneers technology, and builds partnerships that make ending poverty a realistic proposition.
Named after Birmingham's Red Mountain, the ridge that supplied the ore that made it the "steel city of the South", RMF exists to help us build something new -- an economy where all can thrive.
Shop Your Values
Economic activism app that enables people to know which companies support diversity, promote inclusion, and practice economic justice, verses those that don't. (In development.)
Fair Marketplace
E-commerce tool that enables people to shop for 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.
HomeWorks Homes
Founded by MMI board members Crystal Crawford, and Damian Broadnax, 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, single most effective way to interrupt inter-generational poverty, and today, is the primary reason the average Euro American household has six times the household wealth as the average African American household.
Home ownership is the fastest, single most effective way to interrupt inter-generational poverty, and today, is the primary reason the average Euro American household has six times the household wealth as the average African American household.
Rent Equity
No application fee/credit check apartment app.
The project shares a cause and partners with a growing network of organizations including:
Social Venture Network
Innovations for Poverty Action
REDF
The sheer amount of red iron ore was only part of what made Red Mountain unique. Birmingham and the surrounding region also had tremendous quantities of limestone and coal.
