Our Focus
Our work is focused on proving what an ownership economy looks like in practice—how public dollars, private investment, and community capacity can align through a shared architecture for economic democracy. We are building proof points across four interconnected verticals: Health Care, Education as Enterprise, Faith and Community, and Shared Infrastructure. Each represents a living laboratory in predistribution, how ownership can be embedded at the front end of design rather than redistributed after the fact.
We are transforming California’s care economy through the Worker-to-Owner Pathway in Community Healthcare in partnership with Futuro Health, a nonprofit organization that addresses the critical shortage of allied health workers by providing tuition-free or low-cost training, credentials, and job placement support to adult learners.
Our Offerings
Shared Prosperity offers a practical framework for economic democracy built on shared ownership, cooperative infrastructure, and aligned capital. We bridge the gap between fragmented local enterprise and institutional investment by aggregating small businesses in underserved industries, circulate capital locally, and transition workers into co-owners of the systems that sustain their communities. Our current offerings lay the groundwork for future Community Corporations and a Federated Network.
Community Venture Studio
This is where we prove the Shared Prosperity Model in action. It’s not just about starting businesses — it’s about building the infrastructure that makes them viable, scalable, and community-owned. By rolling up small, profitable enterprises and equipping them with shared services, AI-enabled tools, and strong governance, we co-create Community Corporations that demonstrate how worker-to-owner pathways can succeed at scale.
Design Sessions & Sprints
Too many founders and small businesses hit a ceiling when trying to grow — struggling with capital, capacity, or strategy. Our approach is simple: Never Build Alone. We partner with cities, anchor institutions, and organizations to co-design worker-to-owner pathways that align with their missions, unlock public funding streams, and equip entrepreneurs with practical cooperative tools and competencies.
Narrative & Movement Building
Ideas only matter if people believe in them. We tell the story of economic democracy through writing, podcasts, events, and partnerships that spark collective imagination. By shaping the public conversation, we help communities, funders, and policymakers see ownership as the foundation of lasting prosperity.
Meet SPCC.1
SPCC.1 (Shared Prosperity Community Corporation) is led by a founding team that blends design, strategy, and systems execution. Together, we bring decades of experience across education, entrepreneurship, community development, and cooperative economics—working at the intersection of capital design and human development to build the architecture for shared prosperity.
Alfredo Mathew III
Founder & CEO
Educator, entrepreneur, and systems thinker with 25+ years of experience building ownership pathways for working families. Alfredo leads vision, partnerships, and capital strategy, integrating policy, philanthropy, and practice to prove that predistribution can replace redistribution as the engine of equity.
Amy Chan
Chief of Staff & Integrator
Operational strategist with deep experience in organizational design, change management, and civic leadership. Amy oversees operations, stakeholder alignment, and partnership execution, ensuring that each vertical is grounded in discipline, accountability, and results.
Alfred Solis
Chief Catalyst & Design Architect
Creative systems builder and learning designer with a background in Fortune 500 consulting, public education reform, and social innovation. Alfred leads the design of cooperative frameworks, tools, and visual systems that translate complex ideas into actionable models for scale.
Design Principle #1
Ownership First
Everyone who contributes—workers, renters, students, patients—should also build ownership. Wealth must flow back to the people creating value.
Design Principle #2
Predistribution, Not Just Redistribution
We don’t wait to fix inequality after the fact. We build equity in from the start—when rent is paid, when care is delivered, when skills are learned.
Design Principle #3
Inclusion by Design
Equity isn’t an add-on. Our systems are built to include those historically left out, with structures that ensure voice, access, and fair participation.
Design Principle #4
Human-Scale, High Standards
We keep programs small enough to stay personal, but hold them to the highest standards of quality, transparency, and accountability.
Design Principle #5
Shared Services Backbone
Community enterprises thrive when they don’t carry the burden alone. Finance, HR, IT, and compliance are pooled so small ventures can compete with big firms.
Design Principle #6
Profitable and Sustainable
Shared prosperity isn’t charity—it must stand on its own. Every venture is designed to generate real returns or measurable public savings.
Design Principle #7
Radical Transparency
Open books, clear scorecards, and public reporting keep trust at the center. Families, workers, and partners should always see where dollars flow.
Design Principle #8
Democratic Governance
Ownership comes with voice and responsibility. Multi-stakeholder boards and mission-locked structures ensure that decisions serve the community, balancing economic vitality and social benefit.
Shared Prosperity for Economic Democracy
To redefine the American Dream, we must redesign the foundation of our economy shifting from redistribution to predistribution, where equity and ownership are embedded at the front end of design. Predistribution builds prosperity by aligning incentives before inequality takes root.
Our Focus
Our work is focused on proving what an ownership economy looks like in practice—how public dollars, private investment, and community capacity can align through a shared architecture for economic democracy. We are building proof points across four interconnected verticals: Health Care, Education as Enterprise, Faith and Community, and Shared Infrastructure. Each represents a living laboratory in predistribution, how ownership can be embedded at the front end of design rather than redistributed after the fact.
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Manifesting Shared Prosperity for Economic Democracy
by Alfred Mathew III
At the core of the American Dream lies the belief in self-determination. For generations, this promise was simple: work hard, play by the rules, go to school, and a job would lead to homeownership, stability, and opportunity for your children.
That pathway is now broken. Wages have stagnated while the real costs of survival from housing, healthcare, education, energy, to groceries continue to climb. Millions of families live paycheck to paycheck, renters paying someone else’s mortgage instead of building equity. Prosperity today is determined...
Shared Prosperity Model
Predistribution reframes public spending as long-term investment in civic infrastructure. It fuses capital discipline with community purpose, ensuring that every public dollar moves through accountable, locally owned systems that generate revenue, assets, and trust. This civic infrastructure is not the government's job alone. It requires private partnership, philanthropic investment, and people as the asset holders and contributors.
Guided by our 8 design principles, the Shared Prosperity Model provides that architecture. It connects three levers of systemic change:
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Education as enterprise formation. Transforming training pipelines into launchpads for cooperative and employee-owned businesses
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Ownership as a learning outcome. Giving workers a stake in the value they create, not just a wage
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Shared services as scaling infrastructure. Enabling small, mission-driven enterprises to operate with the efficiency of large firms
