Dara Dillon

Building Community Wealth Infrastructure: The institutions, capital, and rules communities need to own, govern, and transfer value

Projects deliver activity. Infrastructure preserves capability. Do not finance an asset without financing the institution that must hold it. This is the fifth paper in IIBD's Community Wealth Infrastructure series. It turns from diagnosis to construction, defining the institution...

Financing ownership: How capital design determines who can acquire, hold, and transfer assets

Before an asset can be owned, it must be financed. The terms of that financing decide who can acquire it, on what conditions, and whether ownership survives the first transition. This is the sixth paper in IIBD's Community Wealth Infrastructure series. It examines the capital tha...

From public investment to community ownership: How government spending, land, infrastructure, and risk-sharing can build lasting public and community wealth

Public money creates ownership outcomes whether or not anyone decides them. The question is whether the public claim is designed at the point of contribution — or released quietly at the first transition. This is the seventh paper in IIBD's Community Wealth Infrastructure series....

Wealth is designed: How rules, institutions, and public decisions shape ownership

Ownership is not an accident at the edge of public policy. It is produced through institutional design — and what was designed can be redesigned. This is the second paper in IIBD's Community Wealth Infrastructure series. Working Paper No. 1 established that Canada has an ownershi...