The relationship between local governments and the social economy, was the focus of the Global Social Economy Forum, which took place earlier this month in Montreal, Quebec, a province where roughly 7% of the workforce is employed by a co-op or non-profit business and where public investment in the sector hovers around $100 Million CAD annually.
Just over a month ago, more than 900 of us gathered in Buffalo, New York for the second CommonBound conference. We represented many of NEC's 150+ member groups, and hundreds of other organizations globally. Participants came from 42 states, 5 provinces, and 22 countries including Malaysia, Nigeria, Cuba, El Salvador and Spain. They were students, teachers, farmworkers, community bankers, organizers, union members, and more — all hungry for the visionary solutions and strategies our communities desperately need.
NEC is hiring a Communications Manager to play a leading role in communicating the work of our members, network, and the broader movement toward a new economy.
'CommonBound 2016 is fast approaching. With over 100 workshops put together by members and movement leaders from across the U.S. and Canada, it promises to be a time for collaboration and action to take the New Economy movement forward. It’s going to be three...
Like the rest of CommonBound, we see plenary spaces as a chance to drive forward some of the most important conversations happening in our movements and beyond.
We’re less than two months out from CommonBound 2016, happening July 8-10 in Buffalo, NY.
This summer, CommonBound is where this vital work will converge. And now you can be a part of building it: Register today to join us in Buffalo this summer, July 8-10.
Early in March, NEC staff met with volunteer coordinators at the Grant Street Neighborhood Center, a former library that now hosts PUSH Buffalo’s offices along with an array of after-school and community programming.
Last summer, YES! Magazine and the New Economy Coalition set out to solve a problem both of us kept encountering: Why don’t we have better images to tell the story of the new economy?
Over the next year, Beautiful Solutions is compiling a collection of the best stories into a book (a companion to Beautiful Trouble: Toolbox for Revolution), and asking community leaders and activists from around the globe to share the big questions they’re wrestling with, along with stories they think should be featured in the book. That’s where you come in!
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