Giving Compass' Take:

• Lynn Forester de Rothschild, founder and CEO of the Center for Inclusive Capitalism, explains how policy needs to change to bring about inclusive capital, meaning that the system needs to offer equal access to desired outcomes for everyone.

• Forester de Rothschild explains that corporations and businesses need to make an effort to pay attention to customers, employers, and communities to redefine what successful money-making means.

•  Learn more about calling for capitalist reformation. 

Lynn Forester de Rothschild, CEO of E.L. Rothschild, explains the challenges that will arise with increasing economic inequality and what we must do now to create a more inclusive and equitable future. Moderated by Stephanie Mehta of Fast Company. 

Stephanie Mehta:  I am very pleased to be interviewing Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who is a philanthropist, a seasoned executive, and most importantly for the purposes of this conversation, she is the founder and CEO of the Center for Inclusive Capitalism, which is focused on advancing economic and social justice. So Lynn, thank you for being here with us today....But I want to start before we get to the question of whether or not capitalism can ever be truly inclusive, by talking a little bit about the challenge- the challenge that societies and businesses and economic face. At the center you've done some research that really tries to pinpoint some of the challenges around inequality that we have. At a very high level, and very quickly, what are you seeing?

Lynn Forester de Rothschild: So just to level-set if you don't mind,  just keeping it to America- with a few facts: Our top one percent controls 42 percent of our national wealth. Our top 0.1 percent controls 22 percent our national wealth. And to give that perspective, that amount of money is the same that the remaining bottom 90 percent controls.  And- 40 percent can't come up with $500 in an emergency. Surprise, surprise, 60 percent of Americans don't believe the system works. That's kind of a rational reaction, I think.  So if we don't have inclusive capitalism, which means an economy that works for all - not equal outcomes for all- but equal access to the outcomes that a person desires. We're talking a lot about what's in people's hearts.

Read the full article about inclusive capitalism at Ford Foundation.