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Hive Mind Community Investment Cooperative

Hive Mind Community Investment Cooperative

Fighting poverty & building community wealth in Athens, GA and surrounding counties

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The HIVE MIND Community Investment Cooperative is committed to

fighting poverty + building community wealth

Keeping People In Their Homes

Providing Capital to Low-Income Communities

Seeding Transformative Initiatives Aimed at Closing the Wealth Gap

Hive Mind Community Investment Cooperative (HMCIC) is a community based organization committed to improving the quality of life of marginalized people in Athens, GA. It is our desire to drive the development of a new economy in our town that creates conditions for everyone to thrive. Founded by local entrepreneurs, organizers and real estate professionals, HMCIC is a community-led response to the rapid increase in housing cost in Athens, GA and surrounding counties.

HIVE MIND Co-Operative was founded by three Black Queer Femmes

Imani Scott-Blackwell
Charlisa Coleman
Joy Brown

Our proposed work intends to slow the dilution of our power and create infrastructure that facilitates collective purchase, ownership, and governance of planned developments in our community that actually meet our specific needs. Additionally, we are carving out a pathway for our community to empower itself through cooperative economics.

This is an opportunity to reject individualism and build community resilience in the face of forces trying to keep us poor, sick, and suffering. Our work aims to enable self-determination through solidarity.

Our Solutions

Diversified Community Investment Fund (DCIF)

Reparational wealth building, centering QtBIPOC community, in both real estate and business investment, starting in NEGA and expanding outward at the pace of community

Learn More about the DCIF

Worker-Led Non-Profit

Increase quality of life of BIPOC throughout the NEGA region through community-building, advocacy, and redistribution of resources to redress multigenerational exploitation and disinvestment.

what is a worker-led non-profit?

We are raising funds to launch HIVE MIND! Learn more

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