The Guild

It’s no surprise that construction is a hard industry for women. We’re lucky to have some amazing women as part of our crew at who are not only bringing the building to life, but are also new investors in our !

Check out why Tawanda Rocafort () is investing in the CST and swipe to join us on May 16 so you can invest too 💪🏾

A cozy day at enrolling new investors! Want to combat gentrification and build community wealth? Learn how to invest in the CST and join the movement towards community self-determination, one block at a time (swipe for details).

The first in the country — the SWATS CST — is officially open for investment 🥳

We were thrilled to give members of the Women’s Donor Network a tour of some of the properties that are in this — , 890 Dill and .

If you live in 30310 or have any meaningful connections to the zipcode, this is your chance to and own and collectively steward properties in your community!

More info at www.theguild.community

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Happy holidays from The Guild team 💫❤️

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For the next 2 weeks, we will be collecting food and clothing for our neighbors impacted by the ongoing catastrophe and governmental failures unfolding locally & nationally.

Join us.

Donate.

Share and sign up to volunteer - https://volunteersignup.org/JJM4H

The Community Stewardship Trust is proud to introduce our ⭐inaugural Board of Directors for the SWATS CST.⭐ Their leadership ensures that the CST stays grounded in its mission to return power to the people, preserve affordability in our neighborhoods, and protect Black and Brown communities from displacement.

Antariksh Tandon (he/him) is Development Director & Secretary of the Community Stewardship Trust. He is an architect with over a decade of experience and has worked in architecture offices in New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Beijing. He has a bachelor's degree in Architecture from the University of Waterloo, and a master’s degree in Real Estate Development from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

As Development Director at The Guild, he is most interested in the design and development of cooperative and shared-equity forms of housing. Antariksh has disciplinary interests in finance, policy, architecture, and urbanism. His work has been published in Domus Magazine, Places Journal, and Canadian Architect. In his spare time, Antariksh is an avid rock climber.

The Community Stewardship Trust is proud to introduce our ⭐inaugural Board of Directors for the SWATS CST.⭐ Their leadership ensures that the CST stays grounded in its mission to return power to the people, preserve affordability in our neighborhoods, and protect Black and Brown communities from displacement.

Avery Ebron (he/him) is Director & President of the Community Stewardship Trust. He is committed to developing cooperative real estate models that vest power and agency in working-class and communities of color. As Director of The Guild's Community Stewardship Trust, he ensures its offering builds community wealth and supports local residents, small businesses, and grass roots organizations to thrive in place.

Prior to The Guild, Ebron worked in community development finance where his work focused on fundraising and providing accessible financial products for underserved neighborhood developers and organizations.

In his roles Avery has raised over $20 million in capital toward the development of affordable housing, commercial spaces, and community facilities serving working-class and communities of color. Avery is a 2022 UC Berkeley Terner Housing Fellow and Purpose Futures Fellow. He has a B.S. in Finance from Syracuse University.

The Vision and Victory Conference: Expanding Black Employee Ownership (Nov 12–14, Atlanta), is connecting leaders with networks, tools and strategies to strengthen community wealth through worker ownership.

This inaugural event of Morehouse's International Comparative Studies initiative invites

- Workers seeking ownership

- Small businesses, startups and new graduates seeking to cooperate and combine

- Retiring owners seeking intergenerational wealth transfer and legacy

and anyone interested in building a new economy where both wealth and risk are shared.

For more info, check this post in our

Mutual aid — collective self-reliance — has been integral to Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities for generations. It involves communities coming together to support one another through direct action. It’s a reciprocal system where individuals voluntarily contribute according to their ability and receive support based on their needs.

While nonprofits often work with state and/or private funding sources to serve those in need, mutual aid organizations recognize that the same mechanisms that create wealth disparity cannot also be used to heal it.

Join us at our public forum, Unmonument Atlanta, on displacement, spirituality, and the forest, Friday, Sept. 26th! Co-hosted by Emanuel Admassu (), Lauren Tate Baeza (), Nikishka Iyengar (), Zoe Samudzi (), Too Black (), Rasul Mowatt (.i.am), and Tonika Johnson ().

This public forum is grounded in questions around how the spatial relations between blackness and the environment are rendered—from the mythical connotations of the forest (the woods) to the devaluation and abandonment of black homes (the trap). We will also explore alternative ontologies and African/Afro Diasporic conceptual frames that could help dissolve the autonomy of bodies and space. Through this public forum, Unmonument Atlanta: Animist Unconscious invites the public to imagine new futures for Black spatiality rooted in stewardship, resistance, and the continual re-enchantment of the world.

Free RSVP! All who join are encouraged to participate in the conversation, as it is highly necessary to hold more spaces during this time that protect critical discourses. Wine and snacks will be available.

“We are not inventing, we are remembering”

Shoutout to for creating such an incredible space for our movements to come together in these times 🖤