 Hello, my name is Doria Robinson, my third generation Richmond resident, and I started doing the work that I do with urban TILF in the neighborhood I grew up in with my hands in the soil, transforming dumped on blighted vacant lots into gardens with young people. But after 10 years of doing this work at that scale, it became clear that the approach that we were using would never be able to do more than put a bandaid on the root causes of the problems we were seeking to solve. The extractive economy and systemic oppression just aren't going to be solved one garden at a time. So why focus on economy. Economy is often a thing that people don't want to deal with at all, especially when you have no money, you feel like it's the source of all your problems you want to push it away. You don't realize that it's actually malleable and it's open to our influence. And we actually have to proactively engage in that economy, because the economy is management of home. So for over 100 years there's been this visionary vacuum and it comes to the economy enrichment. We basically have depended upon the fossil fuel your industry as our economic plan. The residents here have really normalized the dysfunction of this economy the lack of employment the under employment the lack of affordable housing the pathways lack of pathways to ownership, crumbling public education, dwindling family wealth, and all of the subsequent consequences of this mental illness and addiction and violence. We've normalized that and just kind of grown up in despair like I grew up here just feeling like I was in an ongoing disaster. Like I was one of those people on the roofs of Katrina marooned hoping to be saved. And I got to a point where I realized that we really just can't wait to be saved any longer. We have to come up with our own solutions solutions that deal with things on an economy scale. And those of us who are tired of waiting in Richmond and in communities like Richmond across the United States have been envisioning and creating plans for what an alternative, just an equitable economy would look like, and how we can transition to the economy that we just so desperately need. It is a lot of work in front of us. But it's, it's just so exciting to get into. So urban tilt has been focusing on ending food deserts by transitioning a decade of gardening practice towards a new regionally local food system that connects resident led urban farming to regional local sustainable BIPOC farmers and healthy food distribution systems run cooperatively by folks were formerly excluded from the economy. So we're actually going to create the thing that we need in order to solve our food desert problem. And we've also partnered with organizations like the Richmond our power coalition. We have amazing organizations to develop the capacity within Richmond to execute a comprehensive just transition plan that addresses not only food systems but energy, housing, transportation, equitable business to business development and criminal justice reform. This work includes a container for outside investment in our just transition fund, which is housed at the East Bay Community Foundation. In the community, we've joined with the seed Commons, another national container for transformative investment, so that we can move capital directly into our frontline communities to support cooperative business development. We also have joined with the climate justice alliance as one of their many our power communities across the nation who are creating just transition plans for our communities and setting up vehicles to accept investment. This is one major problem as migrants, immigrants, refugees, many who have been raised in generational poverty, survived the violence racism environmental and economic injustice systemic oppression that's pervasive in the United States. We have little to no capital to invest in ourselves. Our communities need to scale up our solutions that we're piloting, but we actually need help from outside entity entities to make that happen. We actually need people to actually give back the capital that was taken from us to make that happen. To be fair communities like Richmond have seen some investment from philanthropy but the philanthropic investments have largely come in the form of short term one or two year grants relatively small $5,000 to $100,000 you have to constantly go back to try to keep programs going. There's no way we can embark on a sustained transformation of the economy in a place like Richmond or any other place that's like Richmond, using one to two year 5000 to $100,000 grants. That is funding just enough to fail. It just won't work. How can we move beyond providing communities just enough capital to pilot a solution, but not enough to scale them up so that they can actually build something that could sustain itself and sustain ourselves. How do we move beyond that how do we stop fooling ourselves into believing that that's ever going to do anything but just make us feel better in the moment. We need significant and monumental investment in frontline communities who are ready to make this kind of transformative change. We need support for acquisition of land and property. We can achieve in order to achieve scalable transformation without. Excuse me. We can never achieve scalable transformation without the acquisition of assets. It's just not possible. We need non extractive finance for the launch and working capital to create self sustaining enterprises run by and for people in need. We need investors to understand that at this stage, the return on investment has to be the creation of healthy, just sustainable communities that has to be it for now. We also need investors who have the capacity to release control of their investment and believe in and support the wisdom of frontline communities to determine our own destinies. In order to move our work at the scale of transformative change in Richmond and communities like Richmond, we need investment on the scale of $100 million in clusters in networks in coalitions, like the Richmond our power coalition and all of its related projects, so that we can actually make that kind of transformative change that would bring land trusts, community led affordable housing, radical support for and shelter for programs for unhoused people restored and revitalized downtown in some economic centers where worker owned cooperative businesses thrive. Urban farms food hubs regional BIPOC farmer distribution networks, a new network of worker owned cooperative corner store conversion grocery stores serving food communities solar projects innovative youth entrepreneurial centers cultural centers and cooperative bank to support long term home and business or ownership and development. For urban tools this means securing capital to build out our farm food hub learning center, so that we can scale up our impact over the next two years and continue to be that beacon and anchor for transformative food system change in Richmond and west country Costa County. This is what it will really take to win the frontline communities are ready for transformative change. And my question to everyone at socap is are you