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New Economy ROUNDUP
New Economy Roundup: #AllEyesOnSudan, Student Intifada, Rio Grande Mutual Aid, and a Just Transition College
In this week’s Roundup, we’re talking about the Student Intifada, building cooperative housing solidarity, Haitian peasant womens economies, and Sudan. Read through to the end for plentiful offerings like calls to action, toolkits, podcasts, jobs, and events.
New Economy Roundup: Economic Blockades, Peasant Struggle Solidarity, and Community Owned Utilities
In this week’s Roundup we’re talking about people’s struggles around the world. Keep reading to learn more about workers united against the Palestinian genocide, residents around the United States leading a just transition, and tenant run housing occupations turning into public housing in Brazil.
New Economy Roundup: Land Rematriation, Repairing Black Foodways, Building Power through Co-ops
This month we’re focused on food and land sovereignty! We’re talking about the rematriation of the West Berkeley Shellmound, Black-led food systems, Land Day protests and the global connections between land and energy systems. Plus get a look at worker co-op ecologies, a call to action from Argentina cooperators, interviews with tenant activists, and new solidarity economy 101 resources.
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Resources from our Network
Resource List: Solidarity Economies in Latin America
Many of the strongest examples we have of real solidarity economies – where communities are meeting their own needs outside of capitalist systems – come out of social movements in Latin America, and the communities who have carried those traditions of cooperation across borders. We’ve compiled this short resource list of solidarity economy organizing in Latin America and Latinx communities in the US as a reminder that another world isn’t only possible – it’s already happening.
Solidarity Not Charity – Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy
"This report, commissioned by Grantmakers in the Arts, is about the ways that arts and culture grantmakers can engage in systems-change work. The...
Bylaws Toolkit for Worker Self-Directed Non-Profits
"Bylaws can either be dusty legalese documents with no meaningful impact on your organization, or they can be a living, breathing record of how you...
The Ujamaa Hour Archives
The Ujamaa Hour is a monthly webcast hosted by writer, facilitator, and organizer, Michael Tekhen Strode, exploring the Black social and solidarity...
Worker Co-Ops: Weathering The Storm Of COVID-19
In this moment of crisis, worker cooperatives are a reliable, proven solution to address loss of jobs as well as income inequality. COVID-19 has...
Mutual Aid Legal Toolkit
"Mutual aid networks exploded onto the scene with pandemic shelter-in-place orders. By some counts, there are well over 1,000 new mutual aid...
news & updates
What’s new with NEC?
UPDATE DEC 2022: $300,000 REDISTRIBUTED TO 51 BLACK-LED SOLIDARITY ECONOMY PROJECTS
As of December 2022, the Black Solidarity Economy Fund working group has redistributed $300,000 to 51 Black-led solidarity economy projects!
We’re hiring a Donor Engagement Director
Apply by Feb 23! NEC is looking for a Donor Engagement Director to guide our efforts in building a cross-class, multi-racial network of people bringing resources into the Solidarity Economy movement.
The Black Solidarity Economy Fund is Back
The Black Solidarity Economy Fund is back to continue supporting Black leadership in the solidarity economy movement. Apply for the 2022 funding Cycle by Dec 2!
Summer Slowdown: August 1-26
We’re slowing things down at NEC for the month of August! As part of our ongoing work to build an organizational culture of rest and collective care, our offices will be closed from August 8-19. We’re also taking this week and the week of August 22-26 as “slowdown...
We’re Hiring a Digital Organizer
Join our team! We’re looking for a FT 32 hour/week Digital Organizer. This person is a graphic designer and content creator who can provide hands-on support for NEC communications campaigns, while amplifying the work of our 200+ members to build the solidarity economy.
Join our team! NEC is hiring a Chief of Staff
Location: Remote position (anywhere in the US)Compensation: To determine our staff salaries, NEC uses an equity-based compensation calculator to determine exact rates. Salary for this position is $68K, with adjustments upward to a maximum of $90,000 based on various...
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