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Meet our 200+ members working to build a more just, liberatory, and democratic economy! Use the filters below to sort by sector, location, and focus area of work.
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1worker1vote.org
1worker1vote.org and Mondragon USA are building a national network of unionized worker-owned cooperative businesses to overcome inequality of opportunity, mobility, and income.
350.org
350.org is building a global climate movement. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are coordinated by a global network active in over 188 countries.
Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice
American Sustainable Business Council
The mission of American Sustainable Business Council is to create a new vision and framework and advance market solutions and policies that ensure a vibrant, just, and sustainable economy.
Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA)
AORTA is a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. We work as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community based projects through education, training, and planning.
Appalachian Voices
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
Austin Cooperative Business Association (ACBA)
B Lab
B Lab is a non profit organization whose mission is to build a movement of people using business as a force for good so that one day all companies compete to be best for the world and society enjoys a shared and durable prosperity.
Beautiful Trouble
Beautiful Trouble equips grassroots movements with tools to be creative, strategic and solution-oriented. Our books, trainings, web tools and global network of visionary thinkers and doers distill best practices and animate possibilities for transformative change.
Beneficial State Foundation
Boston Impact Initiative
The Boston Impact Initiative is a place based, impact investment fund that partners with businesses and organizations throughout the region to create systemic shifts in opportunities for urban communities.
Boston Ujima Project
Bottom Up Economy
Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative
BYP 100
Canadian Community Economic Development Network
CCED-NET is a member-led organization committed to strengthening communities by creating economic opportunities that improve environmental and social conditions. We bring people and organizations together to share knowledge and build a collective voice for Community Economic Development action.
Canadian Worker Co-op Federation
CWCF is a national, bilingual grassroots membership organization of and for worker co-operatives and organizations that support the growth and development of worker co-operatives.
Candide Group
Capital Institute
The Capital Institute is a non-partisan think tank launched in 2010 by former JPMorgan Managing Director John Fullerton. Our mission is to explore and effect the economic transition to a more just, regenerative, and thus sustainable way of living on this earth through the transformation of finance. From analyzing the economic crisis to socially responsible investing to fossil fuel divestment to sustainable business models such as cooperatives, we seek to illuminate how our economy can operate as a restorative rather than a coercive agent.
Carolina Common Enterprise
Center for Community Wealth Building
Center for Earth Ethics
Center For Economic Democracy
C.E.D. engages progressive donors, private sector leaders and government officials to support popular organizing, economic development and cultural activism in our most vulnerable communities.
Center for Popular Economics
Centre For Local Prosperity
The Centre for Local Prosperity is a non-profit organization located in Port Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, dedicated to promoting and inspiring practical blueprints for prosperous and healthy local economies.
CitySeed
CitySeed seeks to engage the community in growing an equitable, local food system that promotes economic development, community development and sustainable agriculture.
Class Action
Class Action inspires and equips change agents to end classism and inequality by shifting narratives, building cross-class solidarity, and transforming institutions. Through popular education, publishing and organizing, we challenge the systems that mediate wealth, power, and hold institutionalized economic inequality and classism in place. By creating space for sharing narratives, Class Action build cross-class solidarity and uplifts the wisdom and leadership of the working-class. Our analytical method creates a shared framework for groups so they can challenge deep-seated myths about deservedness and the American Dream and give participants tools for interrupting classism so that we can all work towards an equitable future.
Clean Energy Works
Climable.org
Co-op Cincy
Co-op Power
Co-op Power is a multi-class, multi-race network of community energy co-ops building a just and sustainable future in New England and New York.
CODEPINK
CoFed: Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive
CoFED provides tools and trainings for campus communities to develop strong cooperatively-run food businesses. We engage with a dynamic network to increase access to healthy food while promoting thriving, equitable, and resilient local economies.
Common Future
Common Good
Community Purchasing Alliance Cooperative
Community Purchasing Alliance is a social-purpose cooperative -- 100% owned by our members -- that builds volume to help community institutions (faith, education, housing, non-profit) get better deals on everything that costs money from utility bills to maintenance services, copier leasing to waste hauling.
Compression Institute
The Compression Institute creates and supports vigorous self-learning systems in organizations and communities to enable enduring performance and resilient outcomes while consuming dramatically fewer resources.
Concord Climate Action Network
Cooperation Buffalo
Cooperation Humboldt
Cooperation Jackson
Cooperation New Orleans
Cooperation Richmond
CooperationWorks!
Cooperative Development Institute
Cooperative Development Institute (CDI)'s mission is to work with people in the Northeast to create cooperative businesses and networks that grow a prosperous, equitable economy.
Cooperative Development Program of the Center for Family Life
Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City
Cooperative Federal
Cooperative Fund of New England
The Cooperative Fund of New England advances community based, cooperative and democratically owned or managed enterprises with preference to those that serve low income communities.
CoopZone Developers' Network
The Vision of the CoopZone Network is to enhance the quality of life in Canada by promoting and supporting the growth and development of co-operatives, through mobilizing co-operative developers committed to the vision and objectives of the co-operative movement.
Corporate Accountability
Corporate Accountability International is committed to stopping life-threatening abuses by global corporations and increasing their accountability to public institutions and people around the world.
Coworker.org
Coworker.org provides digital tools and strategic support to people who want to build better workplaces.
COWS (Center on Wisconsin Strategy)
COWS is a national think-and-do tank that promotes “high road” solutions to social problems. These treat shared growth and opportunity, environmental sustainability, and resilient democratic institutions as necessary and achievable complements in human development.
Croatan Institute
Croatan Institute is an independent institute for advanced social and environmental research and engagement. With initial funding from foundations, sustainable investment groups, civil society, and community development organizations, the Institute’s activities address some of the most complex sustainability challenges of our time, often in close partnership with practitioners in the field and movements for social and environmental change.
CURE
Cutting Edge Capital
The mission of Cutting Edge Capital is to provide leadership toward a healthy, just, and sustainable new economy.
Demand Progress
Demand Progress mobilizes the public to challenge entrenched power and promote freedom.
Democracy at Work
Democracy At Work Institute
The Democracy At Work Insitute is dedicated to building the field of worker cooperative development. Through research, education and relationship-building, it meets the need for coordination of existing resources, development of standards and leaders, critical discussion of models and best practices, and advocacy for worker cooperatives as a community economic development strategy.
Democracy Collaborative
The mission of The Democracy Collaborative is to help catalyze a moral and political transformation of the US political economy into a next system that is inclusive, just, and ecologically sustainable—in contrast to today’s amoral economy of financial extraction.
Demos
Demos is a public policy organization working for an America where we all have an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy.
Detroit Community Wealth Fund
Dream Corps
Dream Corps supports campaigns and initiatives that empower the most vulnerable in our society. We sit at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, ecology and social uplift.
Earth Charter International
Earth Island Institute
Equal Exchange
Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through their success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.
Equity Trust
Equity Trust is a small, national non-profit organization committed to changing the spirit and character of our material relationships. It helps communities to gain ownership interests in land and other local resources, and works with people to make economic changes that balance the needs of individuals with the needs of the community, the earth, and future generations.
Fair World Project
Fair World Project (FWP) educates and advocates for a just global economy
Faith, Economy, Ecology, Transformation Working Group
Faith, Economy, Ecology is a collaborative of faith-based organizations and individuals who believe that humanity is being called to radically change its interactions with each other and Earth.
First Nations Oweesta Corporation
Food First
Food First works to end the injustices that cause hunger.
Foundation for Intentional Community
Global Development And Environment Institute
The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) is a research institute at Tufts University dedicated to promoting a better understanding of how societies can pursue their economic and community goals in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner. GDAE pursues its mission through original research, policy work, publication projects, curriculum development, conferences and other activities.
Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective
Green America
Green America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
Green Map System
Using mapping as our medium, Green Map System's mission is to support inclusive participation in sustainable community development.
GreenWave
Groundswell
Groundswell unlocks communities’ shared economic power to grow sustainability and expand prosperity on the local level.
Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
At the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, we integrate natural and social sciences to understand the interactions between people and nature and to help build a sustainable future.
Harbor Roots
Higher Purpose Co.
Highlander Research and Education Center
Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the U.S. South. Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, we help to create spaces at Highlander and in local communities where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible.
hOurworld cooperative
We provide social architecture, training and free software to time banks worldwide. Our mission statement is "Peace, Abundance and Sharing through Equality in Exchange."
Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks (HUMANs)
IDEA: Institute for Democratic Education in America
Incite Focus
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Initiative for Equality
Initiative for Equality (IfE) is a non-profit organization that advocates the adoption of sustainable social, economic and political systems and institutions that promote socioeconomic equality among individuals, communities and societies, and equal rights to well-being, resources and a healthy environment.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
IATP works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Institute for Local Self Reliance
The Institute’s mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens.
Institute for Policy Studies
IPS is a community of public scholars and organizers linking peace, justice, and the environment in the U.S. and globally. The Institute works with social movements to promote true democracy and challenge concentrated wealth, corporate influence, and military power.
Intelligent Mischief
ioby (in our back yards)
James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
The mission of the Boggs Center is to nurture the transformational leadership capacities of individuals and organizations committed to creating productive, sustainable, ecologically responsible, and just communities.
Jobs With Justice
Justice Funders
Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition
L.A. Co-op Lab
Labor Network for Sustainability
The Labor Network for Sustainability believes that workers and environmentalists must be engaged together in order for our society to address the dual deepening crises of both climate and income inequality.
Liberty Tree
Liberty Tree is uniquely committed to building a democracy movement for the U.S.A.. We provide vital support to grassroots campaigns for democratic reform in many areas of American life, and bring those campaigns together to form a united movement for democracy.
Lifebridge Foundation
LINC Foods
LINC Foods works to build a regional, sustainable food system by linking local farmers to new markets and ensuring the highest quality products for our customers through democratic enterprise.
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
Local Clean Energy Alliance
The Local Clean Energy Alliance works to promote the equitable development and democratization of local renewable energy resources as key to addressing climate change and building sustainable and resilient communities.
Local Enterprise Assistance Fund
LEAF’s mission is to promote human and economic development by providing financing and development assistance to cooperatives and social purpose ventures that create and save jobs for low-income people.
Local Futures
Local Futures is dedicated to the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide. Our emphasis is on education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives.
Long Island Progressive Coalition
Los Jardines Institute
Madison Workers Cooperative (MadWorC)
Magic City Agriculture Project
MAP Growing Green
Mountain Association for Community Economic Development
The Mountain Association invests in people and places in Eastern Kentucky to advance a just transition to a new economy that is more diverse, sustainable, equitable and resilient.
Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project
Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project inspires and engages in transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture. MG is rooted in vibrant social movements led by low-income communities and communities of color committed to a Just Transition away from profit and pollution and towards healthy, resilient and life-affirming local economies.
National Priorities Project
National Priorities Project (NPP) makes our complex federal budget transparent and accessible so people can exercise their right and responsibility to oversee and influence how their tax dollars are spent.
Natural Capitalism Solutions
New Economy Project
New England Grassroots Environment Fund
New England Grassroots Environment Fund works to energize and nurture long-term civic engagement in local initiatives that create and maintain healthy, just, safe and environmentally sustainable communities.
North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO)
The North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) Family of associations organizes and educates affordable group equity co-ops and their members for the purpose of promoting a community oriented cooperative movement.
Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
Northern Plains Resource Council
Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance’s mission is to enhance and maintain healthy marine ecosystems by organizing a decentralized network of community-based fishermen, fishworkers and allies.
Nuclear Information & Resource Service
Nuclear Information and Resource Service is the networking center for the grassroots movement for a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system.
NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYC NOWC)
One Earth
One Earth is a nonprofit ‘think and do’ tank based in Vancouver, Canada, focused on advancing sustainable consumption and production patterns from local to North American to global scales.
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One Voice
Open Buffalo
Open Buffalo is a community movement for social and economic justice. Our vision is an equal and just region open to full democratic participation by all its residents, open to innovative ideas and policies; open to new leaders from disadvantaged communities; and open to meaningful economic opportunity and sustainable wealth creation for all.
Our City Our Voice
Ownership Associates, Inc.
Ownership Associates is a private consulting firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that serves as a strategic advisor to both sellers and employee groups interested in employee ownership.
Palante Technology Cooperative
Participatory Budgeting Project
Participatory Budgeting Project works to empower people to decide together how to spend public money.
Partners for Dignity and Rights
Partnership for Southern Equity
Partnership for the Public Good
The Partnership for the Public Good builds a more just, sustainable, and culturally vibrant community through action-oriented research, policy development, and citizen engagement.
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Peace Development Fund
The Peace Development Fund is a public foundation providing grants and other resources to communities and organizations with which we share a common vision for change.
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People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH Buffalo)
The mission of PUSH Buffalo is to mobilize residents to create strong neighborhoods with quality, affordable housing; to expand local hiring opportunities; and to advance economic justice in Buffalo.
People's Action
People’s Action is a powerful new force for democracy and economic fairness. From family farms to big cities, from coast to coast, we’re fighting for community over greed, justice over racism, and people and planet over big corporations.
People's Economy Lab
PeoplesHub
Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA)
PACA's mission is to improve the lives of people in the Philadelphia region by supporting democratically organized businesses, promoting the principles of the international cooperative movement, and growing the cooperative economy.
Pittsburgh Chamber of Cooperatives
Platform Cooperativism Consortium
PolicyLink
PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity by Lifting Up What Works.
Post Carbon Institute
Post Carbon Institute's mission is to lead the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world by providing individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, and ecological crises of the 21st century.
Post Growth Institute
Post Growth Insititute is an international group exploring and inspiring paths to global prosperity that don’t rely on economic growth.
Power Shift Network
Through the collective power of young people and the Millennial Generation, the Power Shift Network is working for a safe climate and just future where communities are thriving and own their power, whether that power is electrical, economic, social, or political.
Project Equity
Project Equity fosters economic resiliency in low-income communities by demonstrating and replicating strategies that increase worker ownership.
Project South
Project South is a Southern-based leadership development organization that creates spaces for movement building. We work with communities pushed forward by the struggle– to strengthen leadership and to provide popular political and economic education for personal and social transformation.
Public Banking Institute
The Public Banking Institute furthers understanding and awareness of public banking and facilitates the creation of new state and local publicly-owned banks
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Race Forward
RAISE
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Real Food Challenge
The Real Food Challenge leverages the power of youth and universities to create a healthy, fair and green food system.
Real Pickles
Reap Goodness
Repaired Nations
Research|Action
Resource Generation
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
Rethinking Economics
Rethinking Economics is an international network of students, thinkers and citizens, coming together to demystify, diversify, and invigorate economics.
Round Sky Solutions
Salish Sea Cooperative Finance
Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Seed Commons: A Community Wealth Cooperative
Self-Help Credit Union
Self-Help is a leading community development financial institution (CDFIs) with a mission of creating and protecting economic opportunity for all, with a particular emphasis on people of color, women, and residents of low-wealth and rural areas.
Shareable
The mission of Shareable is to empower everyone to share for a more joyous, equitable, and resilient world.
Slow Money
Slow Money works to catalyze the flow of capital to local food systems, connecting investors to the places where they live and promoting new principles of fiduciary responsibility that “bring money back down to earth.”
Small Planet Institute
The Small Planet Institute seeks to identify the core, often unspoken, assumptions and forces — economic, political, and psychological — now taking our planet in a direction that as individuals none of us would choose.
Sociocracy for All
Sol Collective
Solar Commons
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Solidarity Economy St. Louis
Solidarity Economy St. Louis is a network of social justice organizations, small businesses, and individuals striving to build and grow a solidarity economy: that is, an economy that embodies the values of social justice, ecological sustainability, mutualism, cooperation, democracy, and innovation while resisting the notion of every person for themselves.
Solidarity Research Center
Solidarity Research Center is a worker-owned collective of researchers, storytellers and creators, whose mission is to generate intelligence to oppose systems that don't sustain working people and the planet and help to build systems that do.
SolidarityNYC
SosteNica
SosteNica works to promote sustainable and socially just development in Nicaragua, and to give US citizens an opportunity to learn and participate in that process.
Soulardarity
Soulardarity is building energy democracy in Highland Park, MI and its neighboring communities through organizing, education, and developing community-owned clean energy.
South Mountain Company
SMC, a worker owned cooperative, is an architecture, building, and solar energy company committed to enriching community and planet by designing and building for the future.
Spark Makerspace
Springboard for the Arts
Stellar Roots
Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI)
The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) is a knowledge network of professionals working at the interface of material consumption, human well-being, and technological and cultural change.
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Sustainable Economies Law Center
SELC cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment.
Sustainable Endowments Institute
Founded in 2005 as a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc, the Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI) has pioneered research, education and outreach to advance resilient institutional responses to the climate crisis.
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SustainUS
Tellus Institute
Tellus Institute strives to advance a planetary civilization rooted in justice, well-being, and sustainability.
The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
The Global Center for Advanced Studies
The Kola Nut Collaborative
The Laura Flanders Show
The Sociocracy Consulting Group
The Thomas Merton Center
The Thomas Merton Center works to build a consciousness of values and to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, classism, economic justice, human rights, and environmental justice.
The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA)
The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) is a worker-owned cooperative whose mission is to make people’s lives more just and democratic through the use of participatory education.
The Working World
The Working World (TWW) creates deep economic development through innovative financing and support to worker-owned businesses that build income and assets in under-resourced communities.
Timebanks.org
Transform Finance
Transition Town Peterborough
Transition Town Peterborough (TTP) is an all volunteer, non-profit organization focused on reducing our community-wide dependence on fossil fuels while increasing local resilience and self-sufficiency in food, water, energy, culture and wellness with economic localization.
Transition US
Transition US (TUS) is a national hub organization for the international Transition Towns movement.
U.S. Department of Arts and Culture
The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture is national action network of artists and cultural workers mobilizing creativity in the service of social justice.
U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
The mission of the USFWC is to create a thriving cooperative movement through the development of stable and empowering jobs and worker-ownership.
U.S. Solidarity Economy Network
Ujima Company, Inc.
Ujima Company Inc. (UCI) is a multi-ethnic and multicultural professional theatre whose primary purpose is the preservation, perpetuation and performance of African American theatre by providing working opportunities for established artists and training experience for aspiring artists. Ujima is a Swahili word meaning “collective work and responsibility” and it is from this tenet that we derive our purpose.
Unitarian Universalist Community Cooperatives
Grounded in the values and tradition of Unitarian Universalism, UUCC grows intentional housing communities of spiritual practice, sustainability, and social change.
United for a Fair Economy
Upstream
Urban Sustainability MA Program (USMA), Antioch University
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We Own It
We Own It is involved in catalyzing citizen action for democracy, participation, and excellence in cooperatives, through member education and organizing.
WEPOWER
Windsor Workers' Education Centre
Worcester Roots Project
Worcester Roots Project is a collective of youth and adult organizers on a mission to create opportunities for economic, social and environmental justice.
Worcester Youth Cooperatives
