OUR WORK & PROGRAMS
EDUCATION & TRAINING
We offer political education, training, and leadership development to effectively build, grow, and sustain local solidarity economies.
TRAININGS & EVENTS
SOLIDARITY ECONOMY 101
What’s an “economy,” anyway? How do we manage the resources we have collectively? And what does a people-centered solidarity economy look like?
CARE FOR THE PEOPLE
If we are to resist policies of violence and economies of war what are our alternatives? How can we encourage collective consciousness and reject apathy and individualism?
RESOURCE LIBRARY
The NEC resource library is a broad collection of toolkits, curricula, stories, maps, podcasts and more that represent key apsects of solidarity economy principles, history, and practice. We see this as a living resource, which will continue to grow and evolve based on the interests of NEC members and the wider public.
EDUCATORS CONNECT WORKING GROUP
The Educators Working Group supports individual educators as a community of practice and deepens and makes accessible educational resources for the Solidarity Economy movement as a community of practice.
MEMBER TRAININGS
As a learning organization, we’re committed to ongoing political education and training. We’re organizing regular in-house trainings for our members and offering scholarships with key training training partners. Past offerings have included Economics for Emancipation and Training for Social Action Trainers (TSAT) with training for change.
RECENT RESOURCES & TRAININGS
Resource List: We Care For Us
A collection of resources with contributions from decolonial feminist, disabled, Black, Indigenous scholars and organizers to sharpen our strategies around care work + tangible resources for how to reshape our organizational cultures and policies in line with these values.
Possible Conversations
As our communities struggle to survive this pandemic and against a failed governance and economic system, how will we reclaim our power and create a world where our needs are met, and no one is disposable? This series intends to be an educational tool for those who want to build a new world but don’t know where to start.
Resource List: Govern Ourselves
A collection of resources to support participatory democracy and governance at the organizational level, coming from NEC’s experience as a member-led network and a worker-self directed nonprofit.
Resource List: We Care For Us
A collection of resources with contributions from decolonial feminist, disabled, Black, Indigenous scholars and organizers to sharpen our strategies around care work + tangible resources for how to reshape our organizational cultures and policies in line with these values.
Possible Conversations
As our communities struggle to survive this pandemic and against a failed governance and economic system, how will we reclaim our power and create a world where our needs are met, and no one is disposable? This series intends to be an educational tool for those who want to build a new world but don’t know where to start.
Resource List: Govern Ourselves
A collection of resources to support participatory democracy and governance at the organizational level, coming from NEC’s experience as a member-led network and a worker-self directed nonprofit.