Howard and Phyllis Friedman Fellowship for an Inclusive Economy

Bob Friedman came to the Mesa Refuge in the spring of 2017 as the Leo Barnes Fellow for Economic Writing. While working on his book, A Few Thousand Dollars: Sparking Prosperity for Everyone, he was moved to create a fellowship to honor his parents. Bob’s fellowship shows how alums can “pay it forward” offering opportunities to future writers.

Bob, who is the founder of Prosperity Now, an organization that works to ensure everyone in our country has a clear path to financial stability, describes his vision this way: “I am happy to create the Howard and Phyllis Friedman Fellowship to support writers and other creatives working toward an inclusive economy where every person in the United States has a reasonable opportunity to start a business, buy a home, go to college, save, and create an independent economic future for herself, her community, and, indeed, the country as a whole.”

Howard and Phyllis Friedman Fellowship for an Inclusive Economy supports the work of future residents working on issues of inclusive economy.