The Guild

Happy holidays from The Guild team 💫❤️

The Community Stewardship Trust is proud to introduce our ⭐inaugural Board of Directors for the SWATS CST.⭐ Their leadership ensures that the CST stays grounded in its mission to return power to the people, preserve affordability in our neighborhoods, and protect Black and Brown communities from displacement.

Avery Ebron (he/him) is Director & President of the Community Stewardship Trust. He is committed to developing cooperative real estate models that vest power and agency in working-class and communities of color. As Director of The Guild's Community Stewardship Trust, he ensures its offering builds community wealth and supports local residents, small businesses, and grass roots organizations to thrive in place.

Prior to The Guild, Ebron worked in community development finance where his work focused on fundraising and providing accessible financial products for underserved neighborhood developers and organizations.

In his roles Avery has raised over $20 million in capital toward the development of affordable housing, commercial spaces, and community facilities serving working-class and communities of color. Avery is a 2022 UC Berkeley Terner Housing Fellow and Purpose Futures Fellow. He has a B.S. in Finance from Syracuse University.

Mutual aid — collective self-reliance — has been integral to Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities for generations. It involves communities coming together to support one another through direct action. It’s a reciprocal system where individuals voluntarily contribute according to their ability and receive support based on their needs.

While nonprofits often work with state and/or private funding sources to serve those in need, mutual aid organizations recognize that the same mechanisms that create wealth disparity cannot also be used to heal it.