Towards sustainable economies US

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Resources

How to's

• How to Start A Worker Co-op, July 27, 2011, Shareable

Legal resources

• Sustainable Economies Law Center

Networks

Data Commons Cooperative, membership is made up of mission-driven organizations that are organizing toward a more just and equitable economy.

Grassroots Economic Organizing

Other resources

• The Cleveland Model community-wealth.org
• Educate and Empower: Tools For Building Community Wealth, democracycollaborative.org
• REconomy Project: Building Resilient Local Economies, transitionus.org

Research

• Y Combinator Research, study of basic income in the United States

Video

more video:

Green Jobs Day of Action in Washington DC, on youtube

News and comment

2019

Oct 23 Grassroots democracies form North American coalition ^[1]

Jul 26 Cooperative bookstore launches in Hamtramck, Michigan ^[2]

2017

Basic income experiments: Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator Research has completed a feasibility study in Oakland, California, and is now finalizing the design of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that is to involved 3,000 participants in two US states, Oct 19 ^[3]

Niki Okuk on Cooperative Economics in African-American Communities, Sep 20 ^[4]

California news: Bay Area Nonprofit Project Equity Transforms Businesses Into Worker-Owned Cooperatives, Apr 17 ^[5]

Texas: Austin Council Votes to Boost Worker Cooperatives, Apr 18 ^[6]

Why AnyShare is the First 'Complete' Cooperative in the US, Mar 21 ^[7]

This Co-op Gives Formerly Incarcerated People Jobs and Community, Feb 1 ^[8]

2014

Another World Emerging? Well, Maybe. Oct 15 ^[9]

See also

• Towards sustainable economies
• local information can be found, or shared, via our many USA location pages

• New York State, Towards sustainable economies
• USA#Community currencies activism
• Community involvement USA
• USA#Ethical consumerism
• USA#Free stuff
• USA#Localism
• USA#Sharing
• USA#Sustainable livelihood
• Ohio#Towards sustainable economies, The Cleveland model

External links

• Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
• Democracy at Work Institute
• Green for All, an organization whose stated goal is to build a green economy while simultaneously lifting citizens out of poverty. ^W
• New Economy Coalition
• U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG)
• Community-Wealth.org
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation, US non-profit community development financial institution (CDFI) that supports community development corporations in 30 urban areas and dozens of rural areas in the United States. LISC's development strategy, launched in 2007, is called Building Sustainable Communities (BSC). LISC's programs are designed to meet BSC's five goals:

1. Expanding Investment in Housing and Other Real Estate
2. Increasing Family Income and Wealth
3. Stimulating Economic Development
4. Improving Access to Quality Education
5. Supporting Healthy Environments and Lifestyles ^W

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