A Long-Term Perspective
Aisha Weeks, the Dearfield Fund’s managing director, is working to shift the narrative of racial equity from solely a moral imperative to an imperative that recognizes the economic impact of, and business case for, dismantling systemic barriers to financial inclusion. “When investors activate their balance sheets and invest in Black communities, they see a financial return and meaningful social impact,” she says. By doing this, “we can catalyze economic development that dismantles long-standing barriers to racial equity and financial inclusion.”
The Dearfield Fund’s impact is both significant and lasting. It is “looking ahead at the kids, the babies that are being born into the households that they have helped create,” says Khadija Haynes, a fourth generation Coloradoan who is CEO of K-Solutions Political and Community Strategies and a member of the Dearfield Fund’s Advisory Committee. “Curing past wrongs and creating a beautiful future. To stand there and do what’s right, not just talk about it. That’s what the Dearfield Fund is about.”
It is, indeed, advancing intergenerational wealth as it realizes its vision of Black wealth, ownership, and equity.