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New Economy ROUNDUP
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New Economy Roundup: 40 Acres and a Mall, Black Solidarity Economy Fund, Health over Profits
This week we’re talking about efforts to bring the Crenshaw Mall in LA into community ownership, funding for rural electric co-ops in the Biden Jobs...
New Economy Roundup: Stop AAPI Hate, #ShareMyCheck, Artists for a Solidarity Economy
This week we’re talking about the growing wave of anti-Asian violence in the US, how you can redistribute your stimulus check, solidarity economy...
New Economy Roundup: $1.9T COVID Relief Package, Rural Electric Power to the People, International Working Women’s Day
This week we’re talking about the how the $1.9T COVID relief package will benefit millions of working-class people including Black farmers, a new...
community highlights
Resources from our Network
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...
Steps to End Prisons and Policing: A Mixtape on Transformative Justice
This mixtape is an offering of nourishment and care to the abolitionist community. Learn from some of the people who have been practicing and...
news & updates
What’s new with NEC?
Request for Proposals – Interim Operations Support
Location: Remote, USA Length of contract: 6 months Time Commitment: Full-time temporary contract position (32 hours per week) Application deadline: ASAP, proposals submitted by Feb 17 are given priority Compensation: Because we are considering individual candidates as...
We’re Hiring! NEC seeks an Interim Development Officer
Location: Remote, USA Length of contract: 12 months (with possibility to become permanent) Compensation: $55,000-$70,000 plus generous benefits package. Our staff practices needs-based compensation rather than market-based compensation, which means that staff are...
Honoring Elandria Williams
This organization and our movement would not exist as it is today without Elandria Williams. As this network and the solidarity economy movement in the United States has evolved, Elandria has accompanied us every step of the way with crystal clear vision, deep faith, and unrelenting passion.
NEC offices are closed July 27-31
In the spirit of collective care, NEC is taking the week of July 27th off to recognize the impact that the pandemic and uprisings have had on our staff. NEC staff will not be responding to communications or posting to social media for this week. Thank you for your patience while we pause to prioritize rest and reflection over productivity in this moment.
Celebrating our 2019-2020 New Economy Reporting Project Fellows!
Please join us in celebrating our incredible 2019-2020 New Economy Reporting Project Fellows, who closed out their fellowship in early June.
Announcing the 2020 Movement Support Grantees
Thanks to 98 donors, we raised an additional $30,000 for NEC’s Movement Support Fund, for a total of $70,000 redistributed through fourteen $5,000 grants to solidarity economy organizers.
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