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CADRE: Congregational Assets Deployed to Restore Equality

Saturday, 4:00pm | River

In post-uprising Baltimore, a small group of congregations are reshaping the conversation on economic justice. C.A.D.R.E. (Congregational Assets Deployed to Restore Equality) is a grass roots movement to invest church assets back into the community with expectations of financial and social return, led by a small group that includes a Presbyterian social entrepreneur, an Episcopal former banker, a Lutheran recovering attorney and an Episcopal priest. Micro-loan funds managed by individual congregations are being used to build independent businesses in some of Baltimore’s most challenged neighborhoods with the goal of restoring dignity to all those involved.

Jim Kucher

A self-described “ecclesiastical agitator”, Dr. J. Howard “Jim” Kucher is an internationally recognized thought leader in social entrepreneurship. An Assistant Professor in the Brown School of Business and Leadership at Stevenson University; Kucher teaches courses in social and commercial entrepreneurship, marketing, management, sales, project management and product development. Jim also works as a consultant to leading and emerging social benefit initiatives and has assisted over 100 area nonprofits and social enterprises in developing new models for meeting the needs of their constituents while increasing the sustainability of their organizations. An ordained Elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), he has been an annoyance to various leadership boards at the local and regional level. Jim is the founder and lead organizer of Baltimore C.A.D.R.E. (Congregational Assets Deployed to Restore Equality), a grass roots movement to invest church assets back into the community with expectations of financial and social return.

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