This year we are excited to welcome 37 amazing organizations into the NEC network:
A Bookkeeping Cooperative: ABC is a worker-owned union cooperative dedicated to building solidarity economies. We develop the skills, systems, and confidence of people and projects working towards a just world beyond capitalism through bookkeeping, consulting, and financial education.
Alliance for Boys and Men of Color: The Alliance for Boys and Men of Color is a national network of hundreds of community and advocacy organizations who come together to advance race and gender justice by transforming policies that are failing boys and men of color and their families and building communities full of opportunity.
Amplify Atlanta: Our mission is to activate a strong organizer community in Metro-Atlanta and empower activists and organizers across the city to better facilitate movements by providing resources, training, tools, and collective power.
ARC Southeast: We provide funding and logistical support to ensure Southerners receive safe and compassionate reproductive care including abortion services. Through mutual aid, popular education, and storytelling, we build power in communities of color to abolish stigma and restore dignity and justice.
Art.coop: We organize for and with cultural workers. Art.coop moves material and cultural resources. Art.coop builds a base of artists. Art.coop challenges extractive practices and supports collective solutions.
Asheville-Buncombe Community Land Trust: Our mission is to establish permanently affordable residential, commercial, and community spaces that empower Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and low- to moderate-income residents to build social, economic, and cultural capital.
BIPOC Intentional Community Council: Our mission is to cultivate radically safe and inclusive communities for Black, Indigenous, and people of color by providing inspiration, solidarity, and support to those seeking to find or found communities, and to those already living in community.
Black Mamas ATX: Black Mamas ATX’s mission is to ensure that Black women survive and thrive before, during and after childbirth. We envision a world without maternal health disparities. Our goal is to reduce and ultimately eliminate the alarming maternal mortality and morbidity rates among Black mothers in Central Texas.
California Doughnut Economics Coalition: We envision an economy where the people and ecology of California thrive. CalDEC promotes the creation of a regenerative and distributive economy throughout California.
Climate Mobilization Project: CMP organizes communities with BIPOC youth-led “climate survival programs” that build economic self-determination and disaster resilience, while accelerating base building and leadership development.
Co-op Hudson Valley: Co-op Hudson Valley partners with workers to start, develop, and sustain cooperative enterprises and to build collective economic power. We work to grow a thriving regional solidarity economy that centers equity and justice for people who have been excluded from economic security.
Cooperación Santa Ana: Cooperación Santa Ana offers training, coaching, and incubation, and organizes a cooperative network and fund governed by Orange County cooperatives.
Cooperate Connecticut: Cooperate Connecticut is a membership-based network catalyzing cooperative ownership and power. We bring co-ops and supporters across the state together to grow our local cooperative ecosystem.
Cooperation Crenshaw: Our mission is to strengthen the social movement necessary to achieve economic democracy and racial justice in South Central Los Angeles by actively resisting gentrification through the establishment of a Black-centered, Black-led Solidarity Economy.
Cooperation Racine: Cooperation Racine is a Limited Worker Cooperative in West Englewood, Chicago. The five founding “worker/owners” are practicing Black & Brown artists committed to reimagining the arts center as a site of “cooperative creative economies” in the broader arts ecosystem.
Detroit Justice Center: The Detroit Justice Center (DJC) is a non-profit law firm working alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.
etc community artist collective: The mission of etc is to connect through creativity and activism, bringing together different cultures and promoting autonomy. We believe in community service that supports issues in our local community and beyond.
Good Trouble Co-op: Good Trouble Cooperative is a Black-led, DC-based, abolitionist organization with the goals of ending gentrification and protecting housing rights in Ward 1 and the Columbia Heights neighborhood, primarily through mutual aid and anti-evictions organizing.
Growing Hope: Growing Hope fosters an equitable and sustainable local food system where all people are empowered to grow, sell, buy, prepare, and eat nourishing food.
IRTF Cleveland – InterReligious Task Force on Central America: The InterReligious Task Force on Central America, is a grassroots human rights organization that uses popular education, mutual aid and direct action to transform consumer behaviors, corporate and government policies for our collective liberation.
Land in Common: Land in Common removes land from speculative markets and places it into a member-run trust, to be cared for over the long-term by its residents. We are creating a multi-generational land base for sustainable livelihoods that supports communities working for just, cooperative, and resilient futures.
LEAF: Our mission is to promote human and economic development by providing financing and development assistance to cooperatives and social purpose ventures that create and retain jobs for low-income people.
Migrant Roots Media: Migrant Roots Media (MRM) is a multilingual, multimedia platform that seeks to unearth the root causes of planetary migration through the voices of migrants, children of migrants, and those struggling to stay and thrive in their homelands.
Mosaic Cooperative: Our mission is to develop the leadership and belonging of Black trans men and masculine folks in Maryland to claim self-determined solutions to our safety and security.
Motherful: Motherful supports, empowers, and nurtures single mother families through education, community, resources, arts and wellness.
Muslims for Just Futures: Muslims for Just Futures is a grassroots organization that builds power through collective care, organizing, advocacy, and movement building.
Oregon New Economy Project: The Oregon New Economy Project facilitates the creation of a caring and regenerative economy for all.
Pathways of Purpose: Pathways of Purpose empowers youth and the community to dream big for their lives and the world by providing asset-based, STEAM educational and vocational programs.
Philly Black Worker Project: The Philly Black Worker Project (The Project) utilizes collective action, policy change and community power-building to win quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve working conditions in industries that employ significant amounts of Black workers.
ProsperUs Detroit: ProsperUs advances economic equity in under-resourced communities by supporting entrepreneurs with opportunities and capital needed to build businesses, generational wealth, and vibrant neighborhoods.
Restore Oakland Inc.: At Restore Oakland Inc., we advance community-governed projects that build political power, create shared economic prosperity, and cultivate collective healing.
Solidarity Ecologies: Solidarity Ecologies fortifies a Southern-based solidarity economy through resource mobilization and values-aligned relationship building across communities and liberation movements.
SOMOS Mayfair: SOMOS Mayfair supports children, organizes families, and connects neighbors to uplift the dreams, power, and leadership of community and address systemic inequities.
Southeast Center for Cooperative Development: Our mission is to increase economic opportunities and benefits by creating and strengthening cooperative businesses and networks that grow an equitable economy. We give priority to developing the power and capacity of low-income, minority, and/or underserved areas of Metro Nashville and beyond.
Taproot Earth: Taproot Earth builds power and cultivates solutions among frontline communities advancing climate justice and democracy.
The Communiversity South: We are an educational institution serving the Black Liberation Movement, specifically building the power of Black workers, the majority of our people, for Self-Determination at the workplace and in the community.
Workers Revolutionary Collective: Workers Revolutionary Collective is a general circle of civil rights, social action and advocacy collectives. Our mission is to abolish our shared struggles and end the exploitation of people who have been born into the working class through non-violent solidarity.