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New Economy ROUNDUP
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STUDY & LISTEN
Resource HIGHLIGHTS
Solidarity Economy Shorts #7: Feedback is a gift
In this episode we talk with Cooperate Western North Carolina about conflict transformation, finding the balance between relational trust building and practical work, and tools for shifting from individualism to a collective way of life!
Resource List: Feminist & Popular Economies
Learn how women around the world are resisting capitalism, colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy by building feminist and popular economies from below.
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.
news & updates
What’s new with NEC?
NEC Program Update: A Letter to Philanthropy, Building Black Solidarity Economy, and the *NEW* Irresistible Newsletter
In this program update, we’re asking philanthropy to fund frontline organizations, sharing updates from our Black-led solidarity economy projects, teasing our upcoming newsletter with Art.coop, and sharing information about our spring office closure.
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.
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.
EVENTS
Care for The People Series
This series will highlight concrete ideas, strategies, and practices for creating solidarity and conditions where care is centralized. If we are to resist policies of violence and economies of war what are our alternatives? How can we encourage collective consciousness and reject apathy and individualism?
Lessons From 10 Times A Rapper Spit Something Lowkey Revolutionary
During our program planning season last year, we mandated that art and culture and programming against anti-Black racism would be at the forefront of our work. Why now? Because we’re doubling down on the economic commitments that the 2020 uprisings brought to our movement.
Remember the Future: Artists Building Solidarity Economy Models at Home
Thank you to all who joined our event “Remember the Future: Artists Building Solidarity Economy Models at Home” to hear from systems change artists and culture workers about their cooperative and solidarity economy models & practices!