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 Welcome!
Our goal is to provide you with the web's most comprehensive
and up-to-date information resource on state-of-the-art strategies
for democratic, community-based economic development.
The resources offered here include directories, breaking news, publications, and conference
information, as well as cutting-edge initiatives from cities, states, community development
corporations, employee-owned
firms, land
trusts, non-profit
organizations, co-ops, universities,
and more.
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America Beyond Capitalism
 How thousands of co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are beginning to democratize the deep substructure of the American economy, with a new introduction by the author, Gar Alperovitz, and a new foreword by James Gustave Speth.
More info and ordering at www.garalperovitz.com/abc »
The Road Half Traveled
 This report shows how universities can embrace their role as anchors to build community wealth.
report-axelroth-dubb.pdf (1MB) »
Download the full PDF, e-book or
individual chapters »
Climate Change, Community Stability, and the Next 150 Million Americans
 Curbing carbon emissions requires far more than technical know-how. Putting forth a vision of green community wealth building, linked to sophisticated and decentralized planning, The Democracy Collaborative's latest study outlines an integrated strategy to meet the sustainability challenge.
More info and download »
Growing a Green Economy for All: From Green Jobs to Green Ownership
 This Democracy Collaborative report provides the first comprehensive survey of community wealth building institutions in the green economy. Featuring ten cases, the report identifies how policy and philanthropy can build on these examples to create "green jobs you can own."
More info and download »
Rebuilding America's Communities: A Federal Community Wealth Building Proposal
 Anyone concerned about the state of America's communities today must give serious thought to how public policy can support on-the-ground practitioners. This report from The Democracy Collaborative outlines an ambitious 10-year strategy to meet that goal.
report-alperovitz-et-al.pdf (1MB) »
Linking
Colleges to Communities
 How
can universities leverage their resources for community benefit?
This report from The Democracy Collaborative outlines a comprehensive
strategy to meet that goal.
report-linking.pdf
(1MB) »
Building
Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic
Problems
 The first across-the-board survey of innovative, asset-based strategies
that are advancing social purposes.
Read the press release
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Executive Summary
(PDF 1.75MB) »
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10th Annual Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) Conference
Grand Rapids, MI | May 15-18
Convening more than 700 community innovators, business owners, and investors, the 10th annual BALLE conference strives to connect people, places and ideas to unleash local prosperity.
www.livingeconomies.org
Strategies for a New Economy (New Economics Institute)
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | Jun 8-10
In this three-day conference of over 60 workshops and participatory strategizing sessions organized around 10 themed areas, New Economics Institute aims to bring together what are often diverse and scattered efforts to reshape our economic system.
www.neweconomicsinstitute.org
Fourth National Conference for Worker Cooperatives
Boston, MA | Jun 22-24
The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives invites worker cooperatives, cooperative developers, policymakers, community organizers, academics and the general public to learn and become inspired by the possibilities of cooperatives, worker ownership and workplace democracy.
www.usworker.coop
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