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NEC NEWSLETTER
New Economy ROUNDUP
Sign up for our bimonthly newsletter, the New Economy Roundup, to get highlights of our 200+ members and many other building solidarity economies around the world.
STUDY & LISTEN
Resource HIGHLIGHTS
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.
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.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #7: Feedback is a gift
In this episode we talk with Cooperate Western North Carolina about conflict transformation, finding the balance between relational trust building and practical work, and tools for shifting from individualism to a collective way of life!
news & updates
What’s new with NEC?
The Rapid Response Fund
The Black Solidarity Economy Fund will redistribute $50k of rapid response funds to nonprofit organizations, entities, and collectives facing emergent needs due to racialized environmental, public health, legal, and economic threats.
Five Takeaways from the Movement Finance Forum
In June, we helped co-convene the Movement Finance Forum, connecting social movement groups, non-extractive investors, funders, movement lawyers, financial technical experts, and other practitioners. NEC member Center for Economic Democracy anchored the forum, gathering around 130 people, many representing other NEC member organizations. Read our latest blog post to learn how we strove towards shared understanding of “Capital Strategies,” and deeper coordination within and across movement-anchored projects and campaigns advancing a Just Transition.
NEC Program Update: Care for the People Series, Our Annual Member Meeting, The Wellness Fund, Black and Indigenous Land Sovereignty, and A New Resource List
This week we’re talking about the campaign to bailout Black mothers and end cash bail, a new community land trust and co-op hub in Santa Ana, what’s next for the Stop Cop City movement, a call to action for Nakba Day, the digital solidarity economy movement in Brazil, how workers are building power through democratic self-organization, and more.
EVENTS
We Fund Us: 5 Years Since the Uprisings
Join the New Economy Coalition for a funder briefing to support the longevity of the Black Solidarity Economy Fund (BSEF). In this session, we’ll share lessons learned in the first 5 years of operating this participatory fund, and how we can mobilize resources for the next half-decade.
Care for The People Series
This series will highlight concrete ideas, strategies, and practices for creating solidarity and conditions where care is centralized. 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?
Lessons From 10 Times A Rapper Spit Something Lowkey Revolutionary
During our program planning season last year, we mandated that art and culture and programming against anti-Black racism would be at the forefront of our work. Why now? Because we’re doubling down on the economic commitments that the 2020 uprisings brought to our movement.
money moves
Funding Solidarity Roundup
Five Takeaways from the Movement Finance Forum
In June, we helped co-convene the Movement Finance Forum, connecting social movement groups, non-extractive investors, funders, movement lawyers, financial technical experts, and other practitioners. NEC member Center for Economic Democracy anchored the forum, gathering around 130 people, many representing other NEC member organizations. Read our latest blog post to learn how we strove towards shared understanding of “Capital Strategies,” and deeper coordination within and across movement-anchored projects and campaigns advancing a Just Transition.
Funding Solidarity: Solidarity against Fascism, New Funding Opportunities, & More
FUNDING SOLIDARITY NEWS SPECIAL FEATURE: A "United Offensive" Against Fascist Threats In the wake of heightened legal repression against identity-based funds, the ascendancy of a VP nominee who openly supports liquidating progressive foundations, and the threat of...









