{"id":1252,"date":"2019-08-19T05:56:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T05:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceraceit.com\/wp\/profund\/?page_id=1252"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:33:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/communityfriends.org\/?page_id=1252","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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About us<\/h5>

Investing in people and Planet<\/span><\/h2>
Collaborate and invest with us<\/div>
The mission of Community Friends is\u00a0<\/span>Investing in People and Planet<\/i><\/span>. Community Friends is about community investing. Community investing is about providing access to capital for people living in underserved communities. Through grants, direct investments, and loans, we can provide much-needed access to capital; critical for overcoming economic disparities.<\/span><\/div>
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Community investing directs the power of money toward empowering people. We all have the choice to direct the power of our money. We have the opportunity to support social and environmental justice, organic agriculture, renewable energy, affordable housing, land restoration and sustainable livelihoods. This is where equity, ecology and economy come together.<\/span><\/div>
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TEAM WORK<\/h5>

Featured Volunteers<\/span><\/h2>
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Seevali Ratnakara<\/h3>

Seevali is board chair and a founding director of Community Friends. She developed our micro-enterprise programs to create opportunities and empower teenage girls and women in underserved communities. Seevali provides counseling to assist women with nutrition, general health and family finances. She started our Carbon Game program in Sri Lankan schools. Seevali is also program manager with Educate Lanka Foundation working with underprivileged students in Sri Lanka. She was raised in Sri Lanka and received her Master's from The Central Queensland University in Australia.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Indigo Tiewes<\/h3>

Indigo is a sustainability and corporate responsibility professional working on issues from climate change to social labor compliance. She directed the research program for the first global sustainability mutual fund. Today, she leads the Corporate Responsibility program for the Helen of Troy Housewares\u2019 division including Hydro Flask and OXO. Indigo co-designed the Community Friends Carbon Game program which has been offered to thousands of students in four countries. She was raised in Australia and received her Master\u2019s in Sustainability from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Jeanne Enders, PhD.<\/h3>

Jeanne is a Social and Organizational Psychologist on the management faculty at Portland State University's School of Business. She teaches organizational management, leadership, teams and business ethics in the MBA and undergraduate programs. Jeanne uses Community Friends as a teaching model for her passion of \u201cbusiness as good.\u201d She and her students co-authored a case study about Community Friends. She received her Master\u2019s and Doctoral degrees at the University of Chicago. Community Friends is grateful for Jeanne\u2019s contribution to our mission.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Time Frame of Our Journey <\/span><\/h2>
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