Meet NEC's newest board members: Allison Basile and Ivy Brashear

Think food co-ops can only exist in wealthy neighborhoods? Think again, and then check out this exciting new resource from the Cooperative Development Institute (an NEC member) detailing different models of cooperative ownership that are bringing real food and good jobs to low-income communities around the US.

Working to build a new economy from the bottom up will require a lot of experimentation. Having a long-term vision can help make sure such new experiments open the door to even more transformative change in how the economy works.

This week, NEC is starting off the second half of 2015 on stronger grounding than ever with our Annual Meeting and first ever Grantee Gathering in Philadelphia.

While the residents in Northeast Greensboro just wanted to get grocery store, they are doing something much bigger and more important.

Signs of deep economic changes are slowly taking place across the United States, focusing on cooperative/solidarity economics.

We currently face two equally urgent and significant crises: rising inequality and climate change. Rising inequality is not only morally unacceptable; it hinders economic growth. Climate change is occurring at a faster rate than other time in history and is already impacting every part of the country with low-income communities and communities of color getting hit first and most hard.

Reclaiming our Commons requires coming together as a community.