Hi, I'm Ali Jackson Jolly.

I'm here with Brooke Daniels.

She is the co-founder of Operation Wellspring.

Brooke, welcome and thanks for being here with us.

Thank you.

I'm excited to be here.

Yeah, so Brooke, Project Wellspring describes itself as, I wrote it down because it's a lot of words,

part donor advised fund platform, part economic development engine, and part investment group.

That's a lot of hats, but in layman's terms, tell us what that means, what you're trying to build here, and why now?

Absolutely.

So we would say Project Wellspring is definitely focused on being an economic development engine,

and we want to be the jail and the ecosystem.

We started, I'll tell you a little bit about our origin story, started when me and my other partners,

all of whom have backgrounds across

finance, venture capital, family offices. We noticed that a lot of our peers were doing really

great work to try to solve gaps around mostly wealthy quality, but all of that work was siloed.

And so no one was sharing resources in a really great way.

We weren't sharing knowledge.

It was very much build your own.

And we said something has to change about that because we're not going to go far enough,

fast enough if we can't find a way to collaborate and work together.

And so out of that idea, we actually brought together a room of folks we knew in the community

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