Member Directory

Meet our 200+ members working to build a more just, liberatory, and democratic economy! Use the filters below to sort by sector, location, and focus area of work. 

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    1worker1vote.org

    1worker1vote.org and Mondragon USA are building a national network of unionized worker-owned cooperative businesses to overcome inequality of opportunity, mobility, and income.

    350.org

    350.org is building a global climate movement. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are coordinated by a global network active in over 188 countries.

    American Sustainable Business Council

    The mission of American Sustainable Business Council is to create a new vision and framework and advance market solutions and policies that ensure a vibrant, just, and sustainable economy.

    Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA)

    AORTA is a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. We work as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community based projects through education, training, and planning.

    Appalachian Voices

    Appalachian Voices defends our region from mountaintop removal coal mining, fracked-gas pipeline building, and other harmful practices while promoting clean energy sources that generate local jobs and community wealth and that sustain Appalachia’s incomparable natural heritage.

    Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions

    The Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions seeks to educate people around the world about ways to make their communities more resilient, vital, and capable of withstanding the dramatic shifts due to climate and economic disruptions.

    Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)

    AASHE empowers higher education faculty, administrators, staff and students to be effective change agents and drivers of sustainability innovation.

    Austin Cooperative Business Association (ACBA)

    The Austin Cooperative Business Association (ACBA) works to build and expand the cooperative economy in central Texas.

    B Lab

    B Lab is a non profit organization whose mission is to build a movement of people using business as a force for good so that one day all companies compete to be best for the world and society enjoys a shared and durable prosperity.

    Beautiful Trouble

    Beautiful Trouble equips grassroots movements with tools to be creative, strategic and solution-oriented. Our books, trainings, web tools and global network of visionary thinkers and doers distill best practices and animate possibilities for transformative change.

    Beneficial State Foundation

    Beneficial State Foundation's mission is to create, guide, and promote a beneficial banking model that transforms the banking industry; we accelerate the transformation by attracting human, financial, intellectual and capital resources to beneficial banking.

    Board Of Change

    The Board of Change is an inclusive business network fostering an economic model that values the pursuit of sustainability equally with the pursuit of profit.

    Boston Impact Initiative

    The Boston Impact Initiative is a place based, impact investment fund that partners with businesses and organizations throughout the region to create systemic shifts in opportunities for urban communities.

    Bottom Up Economy

    Bottom Up Economy works to challenge the dominant trickle down economics paradigm through real world examples, education, analysis and policy work designed to build a more just, sustainable and locally rooted bottom up economy.

    BYP 100

    BYP100 is an activist member-based organization of Black 18-35 year olds, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and education.

    Canadian Community Economic Development Network

    CCED-NET is a member-led organization committed to strengthening communities by creating economic opportunities that improve environmental and social conditions.  We bring people and organizations together to share knowledge and build a collective voice for Community Economic Development action.

    Canadian Worker Co-op Federation

    CWCF is a national, bilingual grassroots membership organization of and for worker co-operatives and organizations that support the growth and development of worker co-operatives.

    Capital Institute

    The Capital Institute is a non-partisan think tank launched in 2010 by former JPMorgan Managing Director John Fullerton. Our mission is to explore and effect the economic transition to a more just, regenerative, and thus sustainable way of living on this earth through the transformation of finance.  From analyzing the economic crisis to socially responsible investing to fossil fuel divestment to sustainable business models such as cooperatives, we seek to illuminate how our economy can operate as a restorative rather than a coercive agent.

    Carolina Common Enterprise

    Carolina Common Enterprise works for an economy in which all people participate and prosper. We help to develop new and expanding cooperatives through cultivating economic opportunities and connecting communities and resources to each other.

    Center for Earth Ethics

    The Center for Earth Ethics seeks to articulate and enact a moral response to the threat that climate change poses to the world — especially to vulnerable communities — and to the ecological destruction that causes climate change. Founded at Union Theological Seminary in 2015, the CEE will engage religious traditions, spirituality and social ethics to form a framework for seeking eco-justice.

    Center For Economic Democracy

    C.E.D. engages progressive donors, private sector leaders and government officials to support  popular organizing, economic development and cultural activism in our most vulnerable communities.

    Center for Popular Economics

    The Center for Popular Economics is a nonprofit collective of political economists based in Amherst, MA. Since our founding in 1979, thousands of people have participated in our workshops and Institutes.

    Centre For Local Prosperity

    The Centre for Local Prosperity is a non-profit organization located in Port Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, dedicated to promoting and inspiring practical blueprints for prosperous and healthy local economies.

    CitySeed

    CitySeed seeks to engage the community in growing an equitable, local food system that promotes economic development, community development and sustainable agriculture.

    Class Action

    Class Action inspires and equips change agents to end classism and inequality by shifting narratives, building cross-class solidarity, and transforming institutions. Through popular education, publishing and organizing, we challenge the systems that mediate wealth, power, and hold institutionalized economic inequality and classism in place. By creating space for sharing narratives, Class Action build cross-class solidarity and uplifts the wisdom and leadership of the working-class. Our analytical method creates a shared framework for groups so they can challenge deep-seated myths about deservedness and the American Dream and give participants tools for interrupting classism so that we can all work towards an equitable future.

    Clean Energy Works

    Clean Energy Works connects champions of energy efficiency and renewable energy with resources that accelerate investment in clean energy solutions.

    Climable.org

    Co-op Power

    Co-op Power is a multi-class, multi-race network of community energy co-ops building a just and sustainable future in New England and New York.

    CODEPINK

    CODEPINK is a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs while growing Local Peace Economies.

    CoFed: Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive

    CoFED provides tools and trainings for campus communities to develop strong cooperatively-run food businesses.     We engage with a dynamic network to increase access to healthy food while promoting thriving, equitable, and resilient local economies.

    Common Future

    Common Future is a network of leaders (re)building an economy that includes everyone.

    Common Good

    Commonomics USA

    Commonomics USA envisions a world where a Commons-based economy creates economic and ecological security for all.

    Community Purchasing Alliance Cooperative

    Community Purchasing Alliance is a social-purpose cooperative -- 100% owned by our members -- that builds volume to help community institutions (faith, education, housing, non-profit) get better deals on everything that costs money from utility bills to maintenance services, copier leasing to waste hauling.

    Community Ventures

    Community Wealth Building Network

    Compression Institute

    The Compression Institute creates and supports vigorous self-learning systems in organizations and communities to enable enduring performance and resilient outcomes while consuming dramatically fewer resources.

    Concord Climate Action Network

    Concord Climate Action Network works to promote sustainability, to advocate for environmentally positive policies and behaviors, and to work in cooperation with other local organizations on important environmental issues.

    Cooperation Buffalo

    Our mission is to mobilize workers to achieve economic security through cooperative business ownership in order to generate wealth and power in communities most affected by inequality.

    Cooperation Jackson

    Cooperation Jackson is an emerging network of cooperative enterprises and supporting social solidarity institutions based in Jackson, MS.

    Cooperation Richmond

    Cooperation Richmond builds community controlled wealth through worker-owned and community-owned cooperative businesses and enterprises by and for low-income communities and communities of color in Richmond whose wealth has been extracted.

    CooperationWorks!

    Cooperative Development Institute

    Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) is the source for cooperative business development in the Northeast. CDI’s mission is to build a cooperative economy through the creation and development of successful cooperative enterprises and networks in diverse communities in New England and New York.

    Cooperative Development Program of the Center for Family Life

    The Cooperative Development Program's mission is to support community residents’ efforts to organize cooperative businesses and establish a platform for achieving economic goals.

    Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City

    The Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City (CEANYC) aims to strengthen and expand community-led, democratically-controlled initiatives from worker, financial and consumer co-ops to community land trusts and gardens, mutual housing, and low-income housing co-ops

    Cooperative Federal

    Our mission is to build the local economy in ways that foster justice, serve people and communities that are underserved by mainstream financial institutions, and responsibly manage our members’ assets

    Cooperative Fund of New England

    The Cooperative Fund of New England advances community based, cooperative and democratically owned or managed enterprises with preference to those that serve low income communities.

    CoopZone Developers' Network

    The Vision of the CoopZone Network is  to enhance the quality of life in Canada by promoting and supporting the growth and development of co-operatives, through mobilizing co-operative developers committed to the vision and objectives of the co-operative movement.

    Corporate Accountability

    Corporate Accountability International is committed to stopping life-threatening abuses by global corporations and increasing their accountability to public institutions and people around the world.

    Coworker.org

    Coworker.org provides digital tools and strategic support to people who want to build better workplaces.

    COWS (Center on Wisconsin Strategy)

    COWS is a national think-and-do tank that promotes “high road” solutions to social problems. These treat shared growth and opportunity, environmental sustainability, and resilient democratic institutions as necessary and achievable complements in human development.

    Croatan Institute

    Croatan Institute is an independent institute for advanced social and environmental research and engagement. With initial funding from foundations, sustainable investment groups, civil society, and community development organizations, the Institute’s activities address some of the most complex sustainability challenges of our time, often in close partnership with practitioners in the field and movements for social and environmental change.

    CURE

    CURE’s mission is to protect and restore resilient rural landscapes by harnessing the power of citizens who care about them.

    Cutting Edge Capital

    The mission of Cutting Edge Capital is to provide leadership toward a healthy, just, and sustainable new economy.

    Demand Progress

    Demand Progress mobilizes the public to challenge entrenched power and promote freedom.

    Democracy at Work

    Democracy at Work is a non-profit 501(c)3 that advocates for worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces as a key path to a stronger, democratic economic system.

    Democracy At Work Institute

    The Democracy At Work Insitute is dedicated to building the field of worker cooperative development. Through research, education and relationship-building, it meets the need for coordination of existing resources, development of standards and leaders, critical discussion of models and best practices, and advocacy for worker cooperatives as a community economic development strategy.

    Democracy Collaborative

    The Democracy Collaborative is a national leader in equitable, inclusive and sustainable development.

    Demos

    Demos is a public policy organization working for an America where we all have an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy. 

    Dream Corps

    Dream Corps supports campaigns and initiatives that empower the most vulnerable in our society. We sit at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, ecology and social uplift.

     

    Earth Charter International

    The mission of Earth Charter International is to actively participate, in a systemic and integrated way, in the present transition to sustainable ways of living on the planet, founded on a shared ethical framework that includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, social and economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace.

    Earth Island Institute

    Earth Island Institute grows environmental leadership through three core programs: Public Education, Project Support, and New Leaders Initiative.

    Equal Exchange

    Equal Exchange's mission is to build long-term trade partnerships that are economically just and environmentally sound, to foster mutually beneficial relationships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate, through their success, the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.

    Equity Trust

    Equity Trust is a small, national non-profit organization committed to changing the spirit and character of our material relationships. It helps communities to gain ownership interests in land and other local resources, and works with people to make economic changes that balance the needs of individuals with the needs of the community, the earth, and future generations.

    Fair World Project

    Fair World Project (FWP) educates and advocates for a just global economy

    Faith, Economy, Ecology, Transformation Working Group

    Faith, Economy, Ecology is a collaborative of faith-based organizations and individuals who believe that humanity is being called to radically change its interactions with each other and Earth.

    First Nations Oweesta Corporation

    Oweesta's mission is to provide opportunities for Native people to develop financial assets and create wealth by assisting in the establishment of strong, permanent institutions and programs contributing to the economic independence and strengthening sovereignty for all Native communities.

    Food First

    Food First works to end the injustices that cause hunger.

    Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network

    The Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network (DSN) was founded to unite the thousands of students working on fossil fuel divestment across the U.S., strengthen their leadership through political education and skills training, and maintain a high level of student climate activism once divestment is won.

    Foundation for Intentional Community

    Our mission is to support and promote the development of intentional communities and the evolution of cooperative culture.

    Global Community Initiatives

    Global Community Initiatives (GCI) helps communities move forward with confidence and enthusiasm to achieve their vision for a healthy environment, a vibrant economy, good governance, and a sense of connection to their neighbors and the world.   

    Global Development And Environment Institute

    The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) is a research institute at Tufts University dedicated to promoting a better understanding of how societies can pursue their economic and community goals in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner. GDAE pursues its mission through original research, policy work, publication projects, curriculum development, conferences and other activities.

    Grand Aspirations

    Green America

    Green America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.

    Green Map System

    Using mapping as our medium, Green Map System's mission is to support inclusive participation in sustainable community development.

    GreenWave

    GreenWave supports a new generation of ocean farmers and innovators working to restore ecosystems, mitigate climate change and build a blue-green economy.

    Groundswell

    Groundswell unlocks communities’ shared economic power to grow sustainability and expand prosperity on the local level.

    Gund Institute for Ecological Economics

    At the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, we integrate natural and social sciences to understand the interactions between people and nature and to help build a sustainable future.   

    Higher Purpose Co.

    Our mission is to create economic opportunity in the Northwest Region of the Mississippi Delta by supporting underserved entrepreneurs.

    Highlander Research and Education Center

    Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the U.S. South. Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, we help to create spaces at Highlander and in local communities where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible.

    hOurworld cooperative

    We provide social architecture, training and free software to time banks worldwide. Our mission statement is "Peace, Abundance and Sharing through Equality in Exchange."

    IDEA: Institute for Democratic Education in America

    IDEA’s mission is mobilizing action to advance meaningful learning and build a more just and sustainable democracy. IDEA's vision is an engaged, informed, and energized majority that is clear about the role of education in a just society.

    Incite Focus

    Initiative for Equality

    Initiative for Equality (IfE) is a non-profit organization that advocates the adoption of sustainable social, economic and political systems and institutions that promote socioeconomic equality among individuals, communities and societies, and equal rights to well-being, resources and a healthy environment.

    Institute for a Resource-Based Economy

    The Institute for a Resource-Based Economy works at the intersection of economics and the environment by challenging people’s perceptions of ownership and our relationship to the Earth’s resources.

    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

    IATP works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

    Institute for Local Self Reliance

    The Institute’s mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens.

    Institute for Policy Studies

    IPS is a community of public scholars and organizers linking peace, justice, and the environment in the U.S. and globally. The Institute works with social movements to promote true democracy and challenge concentrated wealth, corporate influence, and military power.  

    Intelligent Mischief

    Intelligent Mischief is a creative action design lab whose mission is to boost invention and imagination, realign action logic, and experiment with new forms of civil society to create atmospheres of change.

    ioby (in our back yards)

    ioby helps neighbors grow and implement great ideas one block at a time. ioby's crowd-resourcing platform and hands-on fundraising support helps connect civic leaders with the resources they need to make our neighborhoods stronger, greener, and more livable.

    Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition

    JP NET is a neighborhood effort to create a local economy that works for everyone in harmony with the planet. Given the challenges of a hurting economy, climate change, and more, we are co-creating a shared future vision for an equitable and sustainable JP to ensure that we all live well in the "new economy."

    James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership

    The mission of the Boggs Center is to nurture the transformational leadership capacities of individuals and organizations committed to creating productive, sustainable, ecologically responsible, and just communities.

    Jobs With Justice Education Fund

    Jobs With Justice Education Fund believes that all workers should have collective bargaining rights, employment security and a decent standard of living within an economy that works for everyone.

    Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition

    The Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition connects and empowers young Kentuckians to take action for a just, sustainable Kentucky through training, leadership development, and civic engagement.

    Labor Network for Sustainability

    The Labor Network for Sustainability believes that workers and environmentalists must be engaged together in order for our society to address the dual deepening crises of both climate and income inequality.

    Liberty Tree

    Liberty Tree is uniquely committed to building a democracy movement for the U.S.A.. We provide vital support to grassroots campaigns for democratic reform in many areas of American life, and bring those campaigns together to form a united movement for democracy.

    Lifebridge Foundation

    Lifebridge Foundation's mission is to promote the concept of the interconnectedness of all life and one humanity.

    Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

    The mission of LVEJO is to organize with our community to accomplish environmental justice in Little Village and achieve the self-determination of immigrant, low-income, and working-class families.

    Local Clean Energy Alliance

    The Local Clean Energy Alliance works to promote the equitable development and democratization of local renewable energy resources as key to addressing climate change and building sustainable and resilient communities.

    Local Enterprise Assistance Fund

    LEAF’s mission is to promote human and economic development by providing financing and development assistance to cooperatives and social purpose ventures that create and save jobs for low-income people.

    Local Futures

    Local Futures is dedicated to the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide. Our emphasis is on education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives.

    Long Island Progressive Coalition

    The Long Island Progressive Coalition (LIPC) is a grassroots community-based organization founded in 1979, dedicated to promoting sustainable development, revitalizing local communities, enhancing human dignity, creating effective democracy, and achieving economic, social & racial justice.

    Los Jardines Institute

    The purpose of Los Jardines Institute is to build and support healthy and sustainable communities and spaces.

    Magic City Agriculture Project

    Magic City Agriculture Project's mission is to engage in value-based community organizing to reweave the threads of the community, develop sustainable urban agriculture as a solution for economic and food justice, and to dismantle racism.

    MAP Growing Green

    The mission of the Massachusetts Avenue Project is to nurture the growth of a diverse and equitable local food system and promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable, nutritious food and social change education.

    Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment

    Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) believes that Missouri is positioned at a unique intersection of social, economic, climate, and environmental injustice. As corporate power continues its unabated expansion and the gap between the rich and the poor widens, there has never been a better time for low-income communities to come together and fight back.

    Mountain Association

    The Mountain Association invests in people and places in Eastern Kentucky to advance a just transition to a new economy that is more diverse, sustainable, equitable and resilient.

    Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project

    Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project inspires and engages in transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture. MG is rooted in vibrant social movements led by low-income communities and communities of color committed to a Just Transition away from profit and pollution and towards healthy, resilient and life-affirming local economies.

    National Priorities Project

    National Priorities Project (NPP) makes our complex federal budget transparent and accessible so people can exercise their right and responsibility to oversee and influence how their tax dollars are spent.

    Natural Capitalism Solutions

    Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS) helps companies, communities and countries implement more sustainable practices with innovative and pragmatic solutions.

    New Dream

    New Dream – previously known as The Center for a New American Dream — works to empower individuals, communities, and organizations to transform the ways they consume to improve well-being for people and the planet.

    New Economy Project

    New Economy Project’s mission is to build a new economy that works for all, based on principles of cooperation, democracy, equity, racial justice, and ecological sustainability.

    New England Grassroots Environment Fund

    New England Grassroots Environment Fund works to energize and nurture long-term civic engagement in local initiatives that create and maintain healthy, just, safe and environmentally sustainable communities.

    New England Resilience & Transition (NERT) Network

    The New England Resilience & Transition {NERT} Network is a network for grassroots groups working on community resilience, Transition, the new economy, permaculture, renewable local energy, local food, sustainability, social, environmental, and climate justice, time banking, and other initiatives to foster a just, inclusive and sustainable world for all.

    North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO)

    The North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) Family of associations organizes and educates affordable group equity co-ops and their members for the purpose of promoting a community oriented cooperative movement.

    Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

    Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group is the Northeast Region's Food and Farm Network.

    Northern Plains Resource Council

    Northern Plains is a grassroots conservation and family agriculture group that organizes Montana citizens to protect our water quality, family farms and ranches, and unique quality of life.

    Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance

    The Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance’s mission is to enhance and maintain healthy marine ecosystems by organizing a decentralized network of community-based fishermen, fishworkers and allies.

    Nuclear Information & Resource Service

    Nuclear Information and Resource Service is the networking center for the grassroots movement for a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system.

    NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYC NOWC)

    The New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYC NOWC) is the trade association for worker cooperative businesses in the NYC metropolitan region.

    One Earth

    One Earth is a nonprofit ‘think and do’ tank based in Vancouver, Canada, focused on advancing sustainable consumption and production patterns from local to North American to global scales.

    One Voice

    Our mission is to ensure an equal voice to traditionally silenced communities across the South.

    Open Buffalo

    Open Buffalo is a community movement for social and economic justice. Our vision is an equal and just region open to full democratic participation by all its residents, open to innovative ideas and policies; open to new leaders from disadvantaged communities; and open to meaningful economic opportunity and sustainable wealth creation for all.

    Our City Our Voice

    Our City Our Voice (OCOV) is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to support civic engagement processes and organizing with the goal of building community capacity to advance transformative social justice and democratic practice in the United States.

    Ownership Associates, Inc.

    Ownership Associates is a private consulting firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that serves as a strategic advisor to both sellers and employee groups interested in employee ownership.

    Palante Technology Cooperative

    ​Palante Technology is a worker cooperative that provides tech consulting services to progressive nonprofit, social justice, activist and community organizations.

    Participatory Budgeting Project

    Participatory Budgeting Project works to empower people to decide together how to spend public money.

    Partners for Dignity and Rights

    In partnership with communities, Partners for Dignity & Rights works to build a broad movement for economic and social rights, including health, housing, education and work with dignity.

    Partnership for the Public Good

    The Partnership for the Public Good builds a more just, sustainable, and culturally vibrant community through action-oriented research, policy development, and citizen engagement.

    Peace Development Fund

    The Peace Development Fund is a public foundation providing grants and other resources to communities and organizations with which we share a common vision for change.

    People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH Buffalo)

    The mission of PUSH Buffalo is to mobilize residents to create strong neighborhoods with quality, affordable housing; to expand local hiring opportunities; and to advance economic justice in Buffalo. 

    People's Action

    People’s Action is a powerful new force for democracy and economic fairness. From family farms to big cities, from coast to coast, we’re fighting for community over greed, justice over racism, and people and planet over big corporations.

    Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance

    PACA's mission is to improve the lives of people in the Philadelphia region by supporting democratically organized businesses, promoting the principles of the international cooperative movement, and growing the cooperative economy.

    Pittsburgh Chamber of Cooperatives

    The mission of the PCOC is to develop and implement a cooperative business infrastructure and an eco-system for worker-owned and member-owned businesses to thrive in the Pittsburgh area. We work with Pittsburgh's cooperatives, inclusive initiatives, and individuals.

    Platform Cooperativism Consortium

    The PCC supports the cooperative platform economy through research, advocacy, education, co-design, legal advice, application development, the documentation of best practices, the coordination of funding, and events.

    PolicyLink

    PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity by Lifting Up What Works.

    Post Carbon Institute

    Post Carbon Institute's mission is to lead the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world by providing individuals and communities with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, and ecological crises of the 21st century.

    Post Growth Institute

    Post Growth Insititute is an international group exploring and inspiring paths to global prosperity that don’t rely on economic growth.

    Power Shift Network

    Through the collective power of young people and the Millennial Generation, the Power Shift Network is working for a safe climate and just future where communities are thriving and own their power, whether that power is electrical, economic, social, or political.

    Project Equity

    Project Equity fosters economic resiliency in low-income communities by demonstrating and replicating strategies that increase worker ownership.

    Project South

    Project South is a Southern-based leadership development organization that creates spaces for movement building. We work with communities pushed forward by the struggle– to strengthen leadership and to provide popular political and economic education for personal and social transformation.

    Public Banking Institute

    The Public Banking Institute furthers understanding and awareness of public banking and facilitates the creation of new state and local publicly-owned banks

    Race Forward

    Founded in 1981, Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity. Founded in 2002, CSI catalyzes community, government, and other institutions to dismantle structural racial inequity and create equitable outcomes for all. In 2017, Race Forward united with Center for Social Inclusion (an original NEC member organization) to become the new Race Forward.

    RAISE

    Restaurants Advancing Industry Standards in Employment is an association of restaurant industry leaders committed to taking the "high road" to profitability.

    Real Food Challenge

    The Real Food Challenge leverages the power of youth and universities to create a healthy, fair and green food system.

    Real Pickles

    We are committed to promoting human and ecological health by providing people with delicious, nourishing food and by working toward a regional, organic food system.

    Reap Goodness

    Reap Goodness transforms economies via training in worker owned cooperatives for transforming Earth to vibrancy. Coordinated cooperatives eco-sets work in harmony to engrave Earth with swales, develop water collection, food forestry, water reclamation, human waste-to-compost, water for animal sanctuaries and more. Transforming Earth is a complicated set of tasks divided by 3 equal partners of worker cooperatives who work in tandem or separately as is called for by local municipalities, towns, regions, ranches and farms for conversions, and more to return land to its most natural state while guaranteeing prosperity for worker owners.

    ReDesign Reading

    Redesign Reading works to promote community wealth-building in the City of Reading by designing and implementing economic development initiatives in an ongoing working partnership with city development agencies.

    Research|Action

    Research|Action Cooperative is a collective of researchers and campaigners serving the solidarity economy and labor movement.

    Resource Generation

    Resource Generation organizes young people with wealth and class privilege in the U.S. to become transformative leaders working towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land and power.

    Restaurant Opportunities Centers United

    The mission of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United is to improve wages and working conditions for the nation's restaurant workforce. We are over 25,000 people who work in restaurants, over 500 high-road employers, and thousands of engaged consumers united for raising restaurant industry standards.

    Rethinking Economics

    Rethinking Economics is an international network of students, thinkers and citizens, coming together to demystify, diversify, and invigorate economics.

    Round Sky Solutions

    Round Sky empowers collaborative leaders and visionaries dedicated to world-changing results through Coaching, Courses, and Organizational Trainings with Collab™, our practical and holistic toolkit for democratic decision-making, communication, and leadership practices.

    Schumacher Center for a New Economics (SCNE)

    Self-Help Credit Union

    Self-Help is a leading community development financial institution (CDFIs) with a mission of creating and protecting economic opportunity for all, with a particular emphasis on people of color, women, and residents of low-wealth and rural areas.

    Shareable

    The mission of Shareable is to empower everyone to share for a more joyous, equitable, and resilient world.

    Slow Money

    Slow Money works to catalyze the flow of capital to local food systems, connecting investors to the places where they live and promoting new principles of fiduciary responsibility that “bring money back down to earth.”

    Small Planet Institute

    The Small Planet Institute seeks to identify the core, often unspoken, assumptions and forces — economic, political, and psychological — now taking our planet in a direction that as individuals none of us would choose.

    Social Venture Collaborative of Central New England

    To promote and support Social Ventures in Central New England.

    Sociocracy for All

    Sol Collective

    Sol Collective is a community-based 501(c)(3) partnership whose mission is to provide artistic, cultural, and educational programming, promote social justice, and empower youth through art, activism, music, and media experience.

    Solar Commons

    We believe that solar energy is a key part of the solution for a healthy planet and we are determined to build a world where ALL communities can access commonwealth benefits through solar technology.

    Solidarity Economy St. Louis

    Solidarity Economy St. Louis is a network of social justice organizations, small businesses, and individuals striving to build and grow a solidarity economy: that is, an economy that embodies the values of social justice, ecological sustainability, mutualism, cooperation, democracy, and innovation while resisting the notion of every person for themselves.

    Solidarity Research Center

    Solidarity Research Center is a worker-owned collective of researchers, storytellers and creators, whose mission is to generate intelligence to oppose systems that don't sustain working people and the planet and help to build systems that do.

    SolidarityNYC

    SolidarityNYC is a collective of organizers and academics who promote, connect, and support New York City’s solidarity economy.

    SosteNica

    SosteNica works to promote sustainable and socially just development in Nicaragua, and to give US citizens an opportunity to learn and participate in that process.

    Soulardarity

    Soulardarity is building energy democracy in Highland Park, MI and its neighboring communities through organizing, education, and developing community-owned clean energy.

    South Mountain Company

    SMC, a worker owned cooperative, is an architecture, building, and solar energy company committed to enriching community and planet by designing and building for the future.

    Spark Makerspace

    Spark creates a fun environment for people to learn, tinker, prototype, and play by developing and sharing creative & productive spaces and helping gather people who share interests.

    Springboard for the Arts

    Springboard for the Arts is an economic and community development organization for artists and by artists.

    Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI)

    The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) is a knowledge network of professionals working at the interface of material consumption, human well-being, and technological and cultural change.

    Sustainable Economies Law Center

    SELC cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment.

    Sustainable Endowments Institute

    Founded in 2005 as a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc, the Sustainable Endowments Institute (SEI) has pioneered research, education and outreach to advance resilient institutional responses to the climate crisis. 

    Sustainable World Initiative

    The Sustainable World Initiative (SWI) is dedicated to educating political leaders and the general public about the relationship between human societies and the planet's natural systems, and the changes that will be required to achieve lasting progress

    SustainUS

    SustainUS is a youth-led organization that envisions a sustainable world free from systemic injustice and works to advance justice and sustainability by empowering young people to engage in advocacy at the domestic and international levels.

    Tellus Institute

    Tellus Institute strives to advance a planetary civilization rooted in justice, well-being, and sustainability.

    The Food Commons

    The Food Commons is a new economic paradigm and whole system approach for regional food that combines community ownership and vertical integration to create wealth and improve good food access.

    The Global Center for Advanced Studies

    GCAS believes that faculty and students should control and operate the means of producing and maintaining our school. The democratization of education as a public good is our goal.

    The Kola Nut Collaborative

    To promote and sustain a robust timebanking infrastructure which supports non-monetary transactions amongst individuals and organizations allowing a greater sum of the realized value of work to be retained and shared within local communities.

    The Laura Flanders Show

    The Laura Flanders Show is a weekly TV and radio program featuring interviews with forward- looking people from the worlds of politics arts and entrepreneurship, and special reports on individuals and groups that are working to shrink inequality and alienation, shift power and build new models of development and caring.

    The Sociocracy Consulting Group

    The Sociocracy Consulting Group promotes sociocracy, an egalitarian form of governance.

    The Thomas Merton Center

    The Thomas Merton Center works to build a consciousness of values and to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, classism, economic justice, human rights, and environmental justice.

    The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA)

    The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) is a worker-owned cooperative whose mission is to make people’s lives more just and democratic through the use of participatory education. 

    The Urban Cooperative Enterprise Legal Center

    The Working World

    The Working World (TWW) creates deep economic development through innovative financing and support to worker-owned businesses that build income and assets in under-resourced communities.

    Tightshift Laboring Cooperative

    Tightshift Laboring Cooperative is a worker-owned laboring business in Washington, DC. Its mission is to build wealth and power for its members and their community, while modeling a cooperative, solidarity economy.

    Timebanks USA

    Timebanks USA works to nurture a movement that promotes equality and builds caring community economies through exchanges of time and talents.

    Transform Finance

    Transform Finance works with investors and communities to ensure that capital aligns with a social justice agenda to support vulnerable groups.

    Transition Town Peterborough

    Transition Town Peterborough (TTP) is an all volunteer, non-profit organization focused on reducing our community-wide dependence on fossil fuels while increasing local resilience and self-sufficiency in food, water, energy, culture and wellness with economic localization.

    Transition US

    Transition US (TUS) is a national hub organization for the international Transition Towns movement.

    U.S. Department of Arts and Culture

    The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture is national action network of artists and cultural workers mobilizing creativity in the service of social justice.

    U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

    The mission of the USFWC is to create a thriving cooperative movement through the development of stable and empowering jobs and worker-ownership.

    U.S. Solidarity Economy Network

    Ujima Company, Inc.

    Ujima Company Inc. (UCI) is a multi-ethnic and multicultural professional theatre whose primary purpose is the preservation, perpetuation and performance of African American theatre by providing working opportunities for established artists and training experience for aspiring artists. Ujima is a Swahili word meaning “collective work and responsibility” and it is from this tenet that we derive our purpose.

    Unitarian Universalist Community Cooperatives

    Grounded in the values and tradition of Unitarian Universalism, UUCC grows intentional housing communities of spiritual practice, sustainability, and social change.

    United for a Fair Economy

    Using popular education, trainings, and creative communications, United for a Fair Economy supports social movements working for a resilient, sustainable, and equitable economy.

    Upstream

    Upstream is a radio documentary and workshop series that invites you to unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics.

    Urban Sustainability MA Program (USMA), Antioch University

    The Urban Sustainability MA (USMA) at Antioch University, Los Angeles provides learning opportunities for students to meet and transform the world’s challenges of climate change and inequity.

    USA Cooperative Youth Council

    As youth, we strongly believe it is our duty to usher in a newly liberated and cooperative economy that is diverse and united in coalition with social movements for equity and healing.

    We Own It

    We Own It is involved in catalyzing citizen action for democracy, participation, and excellence in cooperatives, through member education and organizing.

    Windsor Workers' Education Centre

    The Windsor Workers’ Education Centre is a community organization of workers, students and activists committed to improving the lives and working conditions of people in low-wage and unstable employment.

    Worcester Roots Project

    Worcester Roots Project is a collective of youth and adult organizers on a mission to create opportunities for economic, social and environmental justice.

    Work Hard Pittsburgh

    Work Hard Pittsburgh is a cooperatively owned and operated business incubator that provides training, resources, sales support, and access to capital to its Members.

    Young Peoples Action Coalition

    Young Peoples Action Coalition is dedicated to building an intersectional high school youth movement in Minnesota.

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