OUR WORK & PROGRAMS
MOVEMENT RESOURCING & REGRANTING
We grow the economic scale and power of the solidarity economy by raising, organizing, and redistributing resources.
PARTICIPATORY GRANTMAKING
Black Solidarity Economy Fund
Since 2020, the Black Solidarity Economy Fund (BSEF) has democratically distributed over $730,000 to Black-led solidarity economy organizing.
REGIONAL RELATIONSHIPS FUND
Since 2022, NEC has been resourcing the relationship-building work that is foundational to regional organizing. In 2024, we democratically-redistributed $104,000+ to 26 organizations.
FUNDING LIBRARY
The Solidarity Economy Funding Library is a resource for people to find funding, investing, and fiscal sponsorship opportunities, as well as detail relationships between movement organizations and funders. NEC’s membership has long-recognized a need in our movement to unlock more trust-based, regionally-rooted flows of capital between projects and funders. The Solidarity Economy Funding Library is a response to that call.
MOVEMENT RESOURCING WORKING GROUP
The Movement Resourcing Working Group is a member-led space for creating more cooperative, transparent, and sustainable avenues of resource mobilization for the solidarity economy movement. It currently consists of two project teams: one focused on resource mapping, and one focused on iterating NEC’s intermediary strategy.
RESOURCING AGREEMENTS
The Funding Library is a project born out of NEC’s Movement Resourcing Working Group, which also created the below document ‘Resourcing Agreements for NEC Members & Funders’. These agreements were co-written by NEC members, staff, and board members participating in the Working Group between 2022-2023. They were also inspired by the work of peer funder organizers in the movement.
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