26Feb
21Feb
Introducing the FairShares Model V3.0
via P2P Foundation The FairShares Model enables you to (re)design companies, cooperatives, associations and partnerships to fully recognise and reward enterprise founders, workforce members and users/customer who invest natural, human, social, intellectual, manufactured and financial capital. We recognise that wealth is generated by stewarding nature to enhance human skills and capabilities, building relationships between people, enabling them to...
19Feb
Buffalo Sets Up Community Land Trust
It is the product of more than a decade of community organizing, but residents in east Buffalo’s historic Fruit Belt neighborhood cheered when Common Council President Darius Pridgen announced on his radio program last Friday that the “City administration [will start] setting aside land…for the...
16Feb
Resist and Build: Discussing Solidarity Economy with Emily Kawano
via The Next System Emily Kawano, coordinator of the US Solidarity Network, Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS), and co-director of the Wellspring Cooperative in Springfield, Massachusettes, joins us to discuss her work on the Solidarity Economy. Adam Simpson: You’re listening to the Next System Podcast. Our...
15Feb
The Hidden History of Solidarity Economy Visions
via Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective The Life and Times of James Boggs by Asar Amen-Ra James Boggs’ life was one of imagination and reimagination. His narrative was one of hardcore socialist, to Black Power advocate, to Humanitarian solutionary. There was never a time when Jimmy, as he was affectionately...
14Feb
A Boon for Shared Equity Homeownership
Shared equity homeownership programs just had a big win: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (“the Enterprises”) committed in their Underserved Markets Plans to increase access to mortgages for shared equity homebuyers over the next three years. via Shelterforce by Emily Thaden These Underserved Markets Plans (UMPs) were just...
12Feb
The Preston Model
In a new series looking at how to make the economy work for everyone, Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty finds out how Preston turned its fortunes around by spending locally via The Guardian by Aditya Chakrabortty The city of Preston in Lancashire dates back to Roman times. It is listed...
07Feb
Cincinnati experiments with co-op/union hybrid
A city hit by high unemployment is looking to examples abroad and from US history to create new ways of working via Co-op News In Cincinnati, Ohio, a city with high levels of unemployment, new models of co-operation are being developed, based on examples in US history...
05Feb
Why Workers’ Rights Are Good For The Economy
via New Economics Foundation by Adrian Bua When economic decision-making power is in the hands of the public rather than corporate interests, economies tend to have lower rates of inequality, and higher levels of productivity. These are the findings of the new international Economic Democracy Index, launched...
02Feb