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JUST Entrepreneur Turned Community Director

Angélica Castro, Entrepreneur and JUST Community Director My Take On Persevering: By A JUST Entrepreneur Turned Community Director Written by: Angélica Castro Throughout my life, I have learned to be firm when it comes to responding to the different situations life throws at us. When we say “yes” or “no” we have to mean it.…

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Our Values & Experiment Framework

Written by: Haydee Moreno, COO and CFO of JUST “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” – Albert Einstein   Action is one of JUST’s three stated values, alongside Community and Trust (which when combined aptly spell ACT). We…

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The Key to Progress When Starting From Zero

An image of Ninfa Espinoza with her eight kids. Female entrepreneur, Ninfa Espinoza, started living when she realized that her life might never get to be ‘easy’.  Working seven days a week at multiple side hustle jobs, she decided she was going to start living on her terms instead of reacting to the stream of…

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Closing The Racial Wealth Gap Through Community Ownership

Authored by: Zoe Schlag, Entrepreneur and JUST Board Member Most of my best decisions have come out of existential dilemmas. Or rather, most of my best decisions have come from deciding to stop running away from existential dilemmas and address them head on. I’ve been in the impact investing world for nearly a decade, and…

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