Yahoo!Finance Inaugural ‘Wealth Our Way’ Grants Provide More Than $2 Million for Shared-Ownership Businesses
November 19, 2025Six shared-ownership business projects across Chicago will be supported by more than $2 million in grant awards announced today by the Chicago Department of Planning and Development (DPD) and Community Desk Chicago.
The projects are the first selected through the collaborative Wealth Our Way (WOW) initiative, which is intended to support community wealth-building goals through worker cooperatives, community investment vehicles and other shared-ownership business models. The funding will enable workplace buildouts for a food manufacturer, an artist collective, a health care provider and other neighborhood-oriented business enterprises.