Kjeld Mizpah (KJ)·Apr 28Building the Pipes Without Selling the Water: What Saltbox Is Teaching Me About Rural FinanceDisclaimer: This is connected to the Saltbox Fund, a project designed through the Future Civics’ social innovation lab.
Kjeld Mizpah (KJ)·Dec 20, 2025Understanding the Margins to working towards Mechanism: How Power Led Me to FinanceAs I write this, I am sitting at a $52 million boutique hotel overlooking the North Atlantic, watching the sun crawl behind the western end…
Kjeld Mizpah (KJ)·Dec 12, 2025Two Homes, One Voice: Reclaiming Power from the MarginsDisclaimer: Written by someone from a small place with big opinions. No governments were consulted, no permissions were sought, and no one…
Kjeld Mizpah (KJ)·Sep 24, 2025Staying Away: How Power Keeps Capital Moving Out of PlaceDisclaimer: This piece is a critical, evidence-grounded inquiry into the curious art of capital relocation, not a how-to guide for…A response icon1A response icon1
Kjeld Mizpah (KJ)·Sep 8, 2025I am waiting. The Unfinished Promise of Social FinanceDisclaimer: From a Canadian rural edge, on the coast of the North Atlantic, where the bank is just down the road, but the funders are a…A response icon1A response icon1
Kjeld Mizpah (KJ)·Sep 2, 2025The Rural Financing Gap: Why are we left waiting?When I wrote my first piece in this series, Affordability in Motion, I took a stance that affordability isn't just about wages or prices…A response icon1A response icon1
Kjeld Mizpah (KJ)·Aug 26, 2025Affordability in Motion: Tracing Power, Capital, and Community in the CommonwealthDisclaimer: I am currently in that awkward transition phase where my brain insists on writing like a political scientist researcher, while…A response icon1A response icon1
Kjeld Mizpah (KJ)·Jul 30, 2025This isn’t it. Are we smothering local potential (Nova Scotia)?Since the election of the Honourable Mark Carney, it is clear that Nova Scotia is shifting its position in the regional realism debate…
Kjeld Mizpah (KJ)·May 14, 2025Nova Scotia Needs a Social Finance Sandbox, and I want to build it.I grew up sitting on the floor of my grandmother’s kitchen floor watching her balance the Community Fund’s budget book. I grew up listening…
