Bree Jones, founder of the West Baltimore organization Parity Homes shares a fresh sort of story--not one grounded in the individual overcomer but rooted in the neighborhood, or, really, any community that has started to recognize its own mutuality.

Our unit of analysis for economic practicality should be, not the individual changemaker, but the neighborhood and its remarkable, resilient, and sometimes subtle economics. Spotting that circulation is spiritual capital. Let's talk with Kevin Jones about that.

Every org leader's got some notion of an enfolding economy that powers their organization. Dr. Shelley Best, of the Hartford incubator 224 Ecospace, calls this ultimate circulation "God's Economy." Her stories will amaze.

Osvaldo Montelongo & Tornu Ngwayah chat about fresh approaches to elder care via their social enterprise ConnectCareHero.

Two metaphors guide our imaginations of organizational impact: the chain and the breakthrough. The first is sequential and reductively quantitative. The second is emergent and hard to evaluate. I propose a third metaphor for impact design, pursuit, and assessment: spiritual capital. (6-min. listen)

How can your organization seek impact in the teeth of trauma? How can you seek impact in the wake of hard history? Here's a conversation with Argrow's House founder Dr. Kit Ford, who shows how one organization shares access to spiritual capital.

How do we perfect our organizations without becoming rotten with perfection? I see your question and raise you another. How might decomposition and breakdown bring unexpected betterment? This week, thanks for engaging this five-minute think-piece edition of the pod.

Growing Home grows vegetables. Lots of them. But they also grow people towards fresh forms of capital, fresh ways of being in the world. Janelle St. John stops by the pod to share some wisdom about everything from mission creep to stewing tomatoes.

Allen Woods comes to us from the Cincinnati-based accelerator Mortar to talk about the art of rediscovering the soul your business can all too easily obscure.

Organizational leaders more and more feel responsible for their team members and employees as whole-personed participants in vocational community. But spiritual insecurity abounds. Angie Thurston and her colleagues at the Sacred Design Lab have some counsel.