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New Economy ROUNDUP
New Economy Roundup: Climate Survival & Reparations, Futures Free of State Terror, Solidarity Economy Assembly
This month we’re talking about the neighborhood-level infrastructure needed to survive the climate crisis, reflections on the War on Terror and how to resist mass surveillance, the growing movement for climate reparations in Nepal, an urgent call for aid in Sudan, artisans co-ops for migrant women, and more.
Juneteenth Legacy, Abolitionist Futures, Making Reparations Possible, Resources for Anti-Racism, Mapping Collective Care
This month’s short & sweet Roundup connects abolitionist struggle, reparations, and solidarity economies as living practices of survival and liberation. From Black cooperative legacies to movements confronting policing, prisons, and state violence, we highlight tools, readings, and actions.
Alabama’s Freedom Quilting Bee, Union & Co-op Solidarity on the Rise, Bolivia Libre, Popular y Soberana!, Palestinian Cooperatives, Artists Divesting, #FreeCongo
This month we’re talking about Black cooperative land ownership through the legacy of Alabama’s Freedom Quilting Bee, rising union and worker co-op organizing in response to layoffs and workplace instability, and artist-led campaigns divesting from war industries, alongside urgent calls from Congo and Bolivia, and more.
community highlights
Resources from our Network
Solidarity Economy Shorts #9: Democratizing Law, Land, & Labor with SELC
In this episode Ebony speaks with Mwende Hinojosa, the director of communications and strategic storytelling at the Sustainable Economis Law cCnter. They discuss the role of attorneys and legal workers the solidarity economy movement and what democratizing land, labor, and law looks like in practice.
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.
Resource List: Govern Ourselves
A collection of resources to support participatory democracy and governance at the organizational level, coming from NEC’s experience as a member-led network and a worker-self directed nonprofit.
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?
news & updates
What’s new with NEC?
Solidarity Economy Assembly for Our Futures: What We Built & Learned
For four days we learned, built in place, connected and felt the joy and magic that just happens when people gather. We made time to hear what is happening across our members’ regions, share what we are learning, and begin taking steps toward a renewed strategic orientation for NEC as a coalition.
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.
Five Takeaways from the Movement Finance Forum
Five Takeaways from the Movement Finance Forum
Aug 15, 2025 | Funding Solidarity Roundup, News & Updates
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 Program Update: Care for the People Series, Our Annual Member Meeting, The Wellness Fund, Black and Indigenous Land Sovereignty, and A New Resource List
This week we’re talking about the campaign to bailout Black mothers and end cash bail, a new community land trust and co-op hub in Santa Ana, what’s next for the Stop Cop City movement, a call to action for Nakba Day, the digital solidarity economy movement in Brazil, how workers are building power through democratic self-organization, and more.
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