Another world is happening.

We’re a coalition of 200+ organizations building the solidarity economy in the U.S. and showing that another world is not only possible — it’s already happening.

A New Future

What is the solidarity economy?

A global movement to put people and planet over profits.

A set of principles, practices, and institutions that provide real alternatives to capitalism.

A system where all of the things a community needs are controlled and governed by everyday people.

A framework rooted in participatory democracy, cooperation, solidarity, and respect for the earth.

The Directory

Our Members

Our members make our work real! Connect and learn more about how they are building just and democratic economies across the country. 

PRograms & Strategy

FEATURED Work 

BLACK SOLIDARITY ECONOMY FUND

 Since 2020, the Black Solidarity Economy Fund (BSEF) has democratically distributed over $730,000 to Black-led solidarity economy organizing.

CREATIVE WILDFIRE 

Creative Wildfire is a collaborative cultural organizing program that supports artists to popularize the vision of the solidarity economy through popular education, mentorship, and financial support. 

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE 

NEC is a member-led network and worker self directed non-profit! We strive to have all important decisions be directly shaped by the needs and interests of members. 

FUNDING LIBRARY

The Solidarity Economy Funding Library is a resource for people to find funding, investing, and fiscal sponsorship opportunities, as well as detail relationships between movement organizations and funders.

NEC NEWSLETTER

New Economy ROUNDUP

Sign up for our bimonthly newsletter, the New Economy Roundup, to get highlights of our 200+ members and many other building solidarity economies around the world.

Solidarity Against ICE, Queer Peasant Feminist Anti-Fascism, and Decolonizing Niger

This week we’re celebrating Black History Month and talking about Black cooperative practices from Ohio to Jamaica and Ghana, solidarity economy responses to the Trump administration, artist-led solidarity economy models, climate action in Congo, Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, and more!

Black Co-op Legacies, Fascism vs Solidarity Economies, Climate Action in DRC

This week we’re celebrating Black History Month and talking about Black cooperative practices from Ohio to Jamaica and Ghana, solidarity economy responses to the Trump administration, artist-led solidarity economy models, climate action in Congo, Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, and more!

The Civil Rights Legacy, Anti-Colonialism in Nepal, and Public Banking in LA

In every New Economy Roundup, we couple our critical analysis of the news with an action you can take to learn more or do something about the issues presented. This month we’re talking about MLK’s legacy, locally controlled finance, labor wins in transportation, ceasefire celebrations in Gaza and anti-colonial activity in Nepal. Read through to the end for related resources, events and trainings.

Defend Rojava, Worker-Owned Cannabis, and Mobile Home Tenant Organizing

This month we’re talking about how the Energy Permitting Reform Act will walk back climate action in the U.S., the affordable housing scandal displacing a mobile home community in Miami, a call for solidarity from the Kurdish Liberation Movement in Syria, and solidarity economy at the World Social Forum in Cali, Columbia. Read to the end for our resource list of the month, nonprofit jobs, and virtual and in-person events.

PS: If you love reading these stories of solidarity economy movements around the world, make a gift today to help NEC meet this moment and keep the Roundup going strong. Give $50+ or become a monthly donor by Dec 31st and get a free copy of Beautiful Solutions — we have about 10 copies left!

Land Back Wins, Grassroots Democracy, Disaster Cooperativism in Action

This week we’re talking about protecting ancestral lands from Digawututklh to Alaska and Honduras, actually-existing practices of grassroots democracy, cooperative networks in Palestine, and disaster cooperativism in Valencia and beyond.

#StopGalamsey, Boston’s Cooperative Economy, and Transformative Justice in India

This week we’re talking about Boston’s cooperative economy, social housing in New York, #StopGalamsey in Ghana, transformative justice legacies in India, and more. We’re able to provide stories like these because of the arduous reporting on solidarity economies around the world from journalists and storytellers. This week, Israel accused 6 Al Jazeera journalists of being Palestinian militants at the height of the expanding genocide and occupation. Join the BDS movement’s call to get the UN General Assembly President to remove Israel for their decades long impunity. Read to the end for jobs, events, and resources that strengthen us.

Mutual Aid in the South, Social Housing Wins, Co-op Month

This week we’re talking about just recovery after Milton and Helene, global reparations in the face of climate catastrophe, a “people’s arms embargo” on Israel, the growth of grassroots social housing, a new driver’s cooperative, guaranteed income for artists, celebrating Co-op Month, and more.

Latinx Cooperatives, Haitian Community Resilience, and Abolition Resistance United

This month we’re talking about Latinx communities getting what their communities need by any means from cooperative business development to legal action against racist politicians; the sustained resistance united against policing and genocide; and poetry by Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, may he rest in peace.

New Economy Roundup: Community Ownership for Just Recovery, Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, Ghanaian Delivery Co-op

This week we’re talking about decommodifying land from Lahaina to Jackson, divestment campaign wins, mutual aid in Sudan, collective housing in Latin America, a worker-owned delivery platform in Ghana, and more!

COVID Justice, Hurricane Katrina Anniversary, Housing Rights, and The People’s Money

This month we’re talking about environmental justice post Hurricane Katrina, the work behind tenant organizing and sustainable housing, long COVID realities, and participatory budgeting across the United States.

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