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New Economy ROUNDUP
Sign up for our bimonthly newsletter, the New Economy Roundup, to get highlights of our 200+ members and many other building solidarity economies around the world.
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Resource HIGHLIGHTS
Solidarity Economy Shorts #8: Mommune, A Village for Single Mom’s with Motherful
In this episode Ebony speaks with co-founder Lisa Woodward and housing director Amanda King. This episode grounds us in Motherful’s origin story and how they are meeting the needs of single moms through offerings like their pantry, resource garage, and basic income program.
Resource List: Resisting Capitalism, Black Mutual Aid History
A collection of resources that invites organizers to envision their work as precedented and a continuity of Black mutual aid resistance emerging as early as 1780, yet ancient in practice.
Resource List: We Care For Us
A collection of resources with contributions from decolonial feminist, disabled, Black, Indigenous scholars and organizers to sharpen our strategies around care work + tangible resources for how to reshape our organizational cultures and policies in line with these values.
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What’s new with NEC?
Program Update: Solidarity Economy Festival, Black Solidarity Economy Fund, EAT! Talkback Session, and Sustaining our Resistance
In this program update, we’re talking about our highlights of the final quarter of the year. Read on for updates on solidarity economy happenings around the network, and Black Solidarity Economy Fund Updates.
2025 Black Solidarity Economy Fund Grantees
The Black Solidarity Economy Fund awarded 32 organizations with a total of $160,000 for the 2025 Open Grant Cycle.
The Rapid Response Fund
The Black Solidarity Economy Fund will redistribute $50k of rapid response funds to nonprofit organizations, entities, and collectives facing emergent needs due to racialized environmental, public health, legal, and economic threats.
EVENTS
We Fund Us: 5 Years Since the Uprisings
Join the New Economy Coalition for a funder briefing to support the longevity of the Black Solidarity Economy Fund (BSEF). In this session, we’ll share lessons learned in the first 5 years of operating this participatory fund, and how we can mobilize resources for the next half-decade.
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.
money moves
Funding Solidarity Roundup
Five Takeaways from the Movement Finance Forum
In June, we helped co-convene the Movement Finance Forum, connecting social movement groups, non-extractive investors, funders, movement lawyers, financial technical experts, and other practitioners. NEC member Center for Economic Democracy anchored the forum, gathering around 130 people, many representing other NEC member organizations. Read our latest blog post to learn how we strove towards shared understanding of “Capital Strategies,” and deeper coordination within and across movement-anchored projects and campaigns advancing a Just Transition.
Funding Solidarity: Solidarity against Fascism, New Funding Opportunities, & More
FUNDING SOLIDARITY NEWS SPECIAL FEATURE: A "United Offensive" Against Fascist Threats In the wake of heightened legal repression against identity-based funds, the ascendancy of a VP nominee who openly supports liquidating progressive foundations, and the threat of...









