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New Economy Roundup: Nonprofits Don’t Pay Enough, How The People Could Own PG&E, and Making A Fossil Fuel Free Barbados
This week we’re talking about a report on how nonprofit’s can better live into their values, California’s mayors calling for PG&E to become a consumer cooperative, and how Barbados is exploring cooperatives to achieve it’s fossil fuel free goals!
New Economy Roundup: Global Uprisings, Winning Public Utilities, and Reclaiming Appalachia
'This week we’re talking about movements for public-owned utilities, global uprisings against neoliberalism, and a just transition in...
New Economy Roundup: $$ for CLTs, PB Goes Global and Int’l Cooperation
This week we’re talking about new Community Land Trust funding, an international cooperative conference, and a global hub for participatory budgeting. PLUS the first podcast section of the Roundup!
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Resources from our Network
Why Should Baltimore Recycle More?
The report was prepared to inform city agencies, City Council and Mayor's Office about the immediate opportunities for increased recycling and its potential economic impact on the city. The Office of Sustainability, Department of Planning and Department of Public Works were all generous with their data and insights in helping prepare the report.
Cooperative Economics for a POC-Led Future: Aaron Tanaka
Under the Trump regime, we'll certainly have to be on the defense to protect the communities most likely to be attacked — but we'll also have to build powerful, alternative models where POC, Muslim, undocumented, disabled, and queer folks have leadership.
PODCAST: The Solidarity Economy
In this episode of Upstream, we explore the Solidarity Economy through expert interviews, stories, and rich sound design.
Featuring:
— Michael Ventura
— Caroline Woolard
— Michael Lewis
— Pat Conaty
— Jessica Gordon Nembard
— Biba Schoenmaker (Breadfunds)
— Stuart Field (Breadfunds UK)
— Jos Veldhuizen (Broodfonds)
From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation and Caring: A Just Transition Zine
Movement Generation is proud to offer you their new Strategic Framework for a Just Transition Zine! Offered in English and Spanish, it is a 32-page long training tool and offers a framework for a fair shift to an economy that is ecologically sustainable, equitable and just for all its members. It is full of visuals, stand-alone sections, and curriculum ideas.
Place-Based Investing: Hospitals Aligned for Healthy Communities
This toolkit outlines a range of strategies for how health systems are using their investment assets to help address the resource gaps that keep communities from achieving better health and well-being.
Sparking the conversation in your community: A DIY guide to planning your own community wealth building summit
How can ordinary community members begin catalyzing a local conversation around building a stronger, more equitable local economy? How can you leverage volunteer power, public resources, and in-kind sponsorships to convene a community wealth building summit? In this new whitepaper from the Democracy Collaborative's Community Wealth Innovators Series, Justine Porter maps out how she and her grassroots team pulled this kind of powerful event together in Poughkeepsie, New York—and highlights the lessons learned so that you can benefit from their experience in planning your own community wealth building summit in your community.
news & updates
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Building Toward CommonBound 2016, Together: A Reportback and a Call for Proposals
Early in March, NEC staff met with volunteer coordinators at the Grant Street Neighborhood Center, a former library that now hosts PUSH Buffalo’s offices along with an array of after-school and community programming.
What’s the New Economy Look Like? Here’s What Our Artists Did With Your Ideas
Last summer, YES! Magazine and the New Economy Coalition set out to solve a problem both of us kept encountering: Why don’t we have better images to tell the story of the new economy?
Get involved! Beautiful Solutions: Toolbox for the Future
Over the next year, Beautiful Solutions is compiling a collection of the best stories into a book (a companion to Beautiful Trouble: Toolbox for Revolution), and asking community leaders and activists from around the globe to share the big questions they’re wrestling with, along with stories they think should be featured in the book. That’s where you come in!
CommonBound: Deadline Extension and Open Positions
We are extending the deadlines to propose a Track or Network Gathering to January 19, 2016 at 11:59PM EST.
Watch: Info session on CommonBound 2016
We're held an informational webinar to go over what’s involved in being a volunteer coordinator and to answer any questions you might have. Watch the recording today!
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