Capital intelligence for inclusive local economies.
CWE Tools is the decision-support hub for Living Cities' Center for Wealth Equity (CWE), combining live capital-access dashboards, Newark parcel intelligence, and research-backed playbooks so city leaders and partners can turn evidence into practical capital decisions.
Built by the CWE team at Living Cities
Three things, done well.
The Center for Wealth Equity helps cities, funders, and civic partners improve how capital moves through local economies. Every tool here serves one of three jobs.
Capital Diagnostics
Identify where capital flows, where it's blocked, and what local conditions shape access — backed by transparent data.
Decision Tools
Translate research and field insight into frameworks, briefs, dashboards, and playbooks leaders actually use.
Aligned Action
Help public, private, philanthropic, and community partners coordinate capital decisions around shared evidence.
From a capital question to a working tool.
Identify the question
Clarify the decision leaders face and the barrier they need to understand.
Diagnose the system
Map capital flows, bottlenecks, rules, incentives, and local conditions.
Synthesize evidence
Bring together field experience, member insight, research, and market signals.
Ship the product
Build the dashboard, brief, or strategy leaders can apply right away.
People behind the Center for Wealth Equity.
Dr. Ahmed Whitt
Turns research, data, and field experience into practical capital strategies.
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Valeria Salcedo
Supports policy analysis, data management, and evidence-based equity work.
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Abdul Baseer Shaik
Data & ML specialist focused on predictive analytics, visualization, and automation.
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Matt Powers
Advances place-based strategies for inclusive economic opportunity from New York.
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Evidence to action
Built around inclusive wealth building.
Living Cities is a collaborative of philanthropic foundations and financial institutions closing income and wealth gaps in U.S. cities. cwe.tools is where that strategy ships as working software.
File drop
Send a project brief, sample file, or dataset note directly to the CWE team — the team will follow up.