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New Economy ROUNDUP
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Solidarity Economy Shorts #6: Building Local Solidarity Economies
In this episode we talk with Beloved Community Incubator about how they started as a hyperlocal initiative and evolved into regional solidarity economy organizing.
Resource List: Solidarity Economies 101
A compilation of some of our favorite resources to learn about the vision, values, and practices of the solidarity economy movement.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #5: Artists as organizers with CREATIVE WILDFIRE
We speak with Lizzie Suarez and Lily Xie about their roles as artists and cultural organizers, challenges that arise when collaborating with organizations, and the cultural shifts needed to have a just transition in the arts.
Resource List: Union Cooperatives as a Strategy for Building Worker Power
Find resources below to learn more about unionizing worker-owned cooperatives as a strategy for building worker power.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #4: Resourcing Black Solidarity Economies
In this episode we learn about NEC’s Black Solidarity Economy Fund (BSEF), and we speak with former grantees about their solidarity economy organizing and the ancestral wisdom that informs their work.
NEC launches new Funding Library and holds Movement Funding Webinar
New Economy Coalition’s Movement Resourcing Working Group has just launched a Solidarity Economy Funding Library, which includes 350+ funders, non-extractive investors, and fiscal sponsors.
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What’s new with NEC?
We’re Hiring a Care & HR Director
We’re looking for someone to care for NEC’s people and HR systems in a way that works toward liberatory self-governance while maintaining state compliance.
10 Times A Rapper Spit Something Lowkey Revolutionary | Registration is OPEN!
Join the New Economy Coalition’s Black Solidarity Economy Fund and Black Radical Democracy working group this Black History Month for a livestream event on Zoom!
In this session, we will explore how generations of Hip Hop are tending to the resounding cry for overdue systems change. Our panelists will connect a few bars from 10 (or so) songs circulating in Hip-Hop to crucial political education that’s guiding us to build solidarity economies across the United States.
You don’t have to be an activist, organizer, academic, worker, or student to join this conversation. Together, we will uncover how Hip-Hop has met this mandate and the ways our rich culture could double down even more.
2024 Black Solidarity Economy Fund Grantees
In 2024, the Black Solidarity Economy Fund awarded $241,500 to 36 organizations through a participatory grantmaking process with former grantees.
Solidarity Economies 101 workshop with NEC!
What do we mean by “economy” & what are solidarity economies? How can you connect and build upon the economic practices of cooperation and solidarity that already exist? Register for SE 101 today to explore some of these questions!
NEC Program Update: Annual Member Meeting, Black Radical Democracy Convening, Worker Co-op Conference
It was a busy summer at NEC! We’ve been on the move — convening online and in person (with COVID precautions of course) to strengthen our relationships and build new connections across the solidarity economy movement. As we shift into new rhythms for Fall, we wanted to share back some of the energy and inspiration from our summer gatherings and share a preview of what we’ve got cooking for the rest of the year.
Upstream Podcast: Will the Revolution Be Funded?
In this conversation we explain why it is so hard to find funding to do anti-capitalist movement work and how we can find aligned funding both within and outside of mainstream philanthropy.