Buffalo residents have long had to do for themselves. Increasingly, “doing for themselves” means building cooperatives.
Building Economic Resilience in the Rust Belt: Buffalo’s Growing Co-op Network
How Returning Land Can Build Power and Advance Healing Justice
To build power in communities, shifting land ownership is critical. Only in this way can true healing of intergenerational trauma occur.
Why Formerly Incarcerated People Need Representation in Elected Positions
Formerly incarcerated people are underrepresented in elected office, but the recent elections of people like Yusef Salaam and Don Scott, Jr. offer hope for the future.
Remaking the Economy: Redefining Journalism
In this webinar, we highlight ways journalism can center community engagement, racial justice, and economic justice in its work.
Achieving Health Equity: Shared Stewardship and the Vital Conditions Framework
A growing movement anchored in equity and designed to help people “thrive together” is taking hold throughout the nation to achieve equitable health and wellbeing.
To Reduce Carbon Emissions, Set Out a Fridge
More and more community refrigerators are appearing on street corners, helping with food insecurity—and bringing a surprising boost to the planet.
Local Solutions to Federal Problems: Moving Climate Dollars to Communities
Federal climate infrastructure funds offer the promise of new resources for community groups. But there is a greater opportunity to change systems of local governance.
How a New California Initiative Seeks to Address Structural Inequities
In California, the PIVOT initiative showcases how funders and organizers can collaborate on directing resources to combat structural inequities. This week, the initiative announced its first set of grant allocations—over $7 million across 14 organizations working to bring about change in the state.
Within an Oppositional Consciousness
What does your oppositional consciousness sound like?
What Is a Community Development Corporation?
In 2023, a national survey of community development corporations took place for the first time in 18 years. The survey found a $28 billion sector hidden in plain sight.
Building an Arts Solidarity Economy
How do you build a solidarity economy from the ground up? Four organizers in New Orleans share their experiences—and offer some early-stage lessons learned.
Seeding Solidarity Economies: What’s Behind the Emerging Ecosystems
Across the country, community-based solidarity economies are emerging. While many are still nascent, they portend the possibility of larger-order transformation.