Shared Prosperity Community Corporation — an R&D firm for economic democracy.
We are an R&D firm for economic democracy, working at the intersection of industry, entrepreneurship, and education to test whether the architecture of broad-based ownership can be built in the real world. We are deliberately small, deliberately resourced, and deliberately structured to work alongside values-aligned partners rather than to scale as a traditional consulting firm. This is the practice. The thesis is what we are testing.
The work is governed by five operating principles. They are the practical expression of the thesis — what it actually looks like when the work is done well.
Those who build the value should share in it. Our engagements are structured so that the people contributing to the work — partners, founders, educators, communities — are recognized as the source of the value being created, not as recipients of it.
We work with businesses and organizations that understand economic viability and social responsibility must be balanced. Without margin there is no mission. No profit, no purpose.
Most institutions are organized to serve the top performers. We design for the broad middle — the heterogeneous majority that the existing system underweights. A system designed for the bell curve is more stable across cycles than a system designed for the tail.
Governance architecture comes before money moves. We design the rules of the road before we drive on them — because the structures that govern capital determine whether capital builds prosperity or extracts it.
Enterprises must generate economic value in competitive markets, but not at the expense of the communities they operate in. Broad-based prosperity requires ownership structures that ensure value flows to the people and places that generate it.
SPCC.1 was founded by Alfredo Mathew III in 2024 as the first operating company developing and testing the Shared Prosperity Model. The work draws on twenty-five years of operating experience across three sectors that the model intersects.
Fourteen years in public school classrooms. Founding teacher at Mott Haven Village Prep in the South Bronx. AP and IB History teacher at Blair High School in Pasadena. Classroom and curriculum work in East Oakland charter schools. Five years as Bay Area Director of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), building relationships with school districts from San Francisco to San Jose to the East Bay and connecting thousands of students to the Silicon Valley innovation economy through career exploration, hackathons, and business plan competitions with companies including PayPal, SAP, Salesforce, EY, and Citibank.
Co-founder of ESO Ventures, an entrepreneurial support organization that secured $24M in capital, supported 700+ founders, and advanced first-in-the-nation California legislation expanding capital access for Black- and Brown-owned businesses. Fifteen years building operational frameworks, establishing public-private partnerships, leading business development, and operating as a serial entrepreneur — the experience that grounds our approach to community economic development and founder cohort work.
TEDx talk Manifesting an Economic Engine for Shared Prosperity (West Valley College, 2025) — among the top ten most-viewed TEDx talks globally in May 2025, with over 100,000 views. Author of Redefining the American Dream (white paper, 2025), the foundational document of the Shared Prosperity Model. Forthcoming book Never Build Alone on founder ownership and the relational architecture of enterprise. Active publication through Substack.
The current work brings the three sectors together — testing whether the model holds when it has to operate in industry, in capital, and in classrooms simultaneously.
Founder & Principal
Educator, entrepreneur, and systems builder with 25+ years of experience designing ownership pathways for working families and communities. Alfredo leads vision, partnerships, and capital strategy — integrating policy, philanthropy, and practice to test whether predistribution can replace redistribution as the engine of broad-based prosperity.
Principal
Operational strategist with two decades of leadership in equity-driven initiatives, organizational design, change management, and civic leadership. Amy oversees operations, stakeholder alignment, and partnership coordination — ensuring the work produces measurable progress against the priorities that matter most.
Senior Advisor
Creative systems builder and learning designer with a background in Fortune 500 consulting, public education reform, and social innovation. Alfred leads the design of frameworks, tools, and visual systems that translate complex ideas into actionable models for partners and communities at scale.
Alfredo Mathew III
alfredo@spcc.one
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