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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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C-W In Action
THE CLEVELAND MODEL
Ohio Cooperative Solar
C-W In ActionEvergreen's OCS installs its largest solar array to date: 700 panels generating more than 150KwH for the city of Euclid, Ohio. The on-line environmental magazine, Grist, interviews The Democracy Collaborative's Ted Howard.
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Featured Publications...

America Beyond Capitalism
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 »

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The Road Half Traveled
The Road Half Traveled
This report shows how universities can embrace their role as anchors to build community wealth.
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Climate Change, Community Stability, and the Next 150 Million Americans
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.
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Growing a Green Economy for All: From Green Jobs to Green Ownership
Growing a Green Economy for All
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."
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Rebuilding America's Communities: A Federal Community Wealth Building Proposal
Unjust Deserts
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) »

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Linking Colleges to Communities
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.
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Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems
Building Wealth: The New Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems
The first across-the-board survey of innovative, asset-based strategies that are advancing social purposes.
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C-W Cities
C-W City, Winter 2012
Houston, TX

W-W CitiesThe fourth largest city in the nation, Houston is home to a number of community wealth building initiatives, including multiple worker- and city-owned companies and strong city-community partnerships.
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Spotlight...

The Vision Behind Evergreen Cooperatives
Gar Alperovitz
The Capital Institute posted an in-depth interview and profile of Democracy Collaborative Co-Founder Gar Alperovitz, who discusses the broader implications of the Evergreen Cooperative project in designing a more socially-just economy.
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Owning Your Own Job Is A
Beautiful Thing
Owning Your Own Job
The Democracy Collaborative was invited to give a presentation about Evergreen to the Cleveland TEDxCLE conference earlier this month. The topic: "Owning Your Own Job Is a Beautiful Thing."
View the presentation on YouTube »

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Ohio Employee Ownership Center Video on Ohio Cooperative Solar
Ohio Cooperative Solar
The Ohio Employee Ownership Center has produced a new 13-minute video on Evergreen's solar installation and weatherization worker-owned cooperative, Ohio Cooperative Solar
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Upcoming Events...

New Partners for Smart Growth
San Diego, CA | Feb 2-4, 2012
New Partners' 11th annual conference, "Sun, Surf, and Smart Growth" brings together thinkers, activists, community leaders, and elected officials on the Pacific Coast to learn about and share their experiences in creating "livable communities."
www.newpartners.org

Upcoming Events

Transforming Local Governance Conference
Kansa City, MO | Apr 18-20
Presented by the Alliance for Innovation, the 2012 TLG Conference engages local governments that are deliberately seeking new and innovative ways to connect people, information and ideas that support their efforts to be the best communities in which to live, work, and prosper.
www.tlgconference.org

Upcoming Events

2012 NCRC Annual Conference
Washington, DC | Apr 18-21
Bringing together hundreds of community leaders, bankers, legislators, regulators, academics and others, the 2012 NCRC (National Community Reinvestment Coalition) conference aims to increase access to financial services for people of low and moderate incomes.
www.ncrc.org

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Recent Articles...

In the Fight Against Poverty, It's Time for a Revolution
LIFT promotes change through relationships
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Resilience in the Face of Foreclosures
Six Case Studies on Neighborhood Stabilization
report-williams-et-al.pdf

Corporate Tax Payers & Corporate Tax Dodgers, 2008-2010
Who pays their fair share?
paper-mcintyre-et-al.pdf

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C-W Interviews
Conversations with Community Wealth Buildersmicrophone

Paul Hazen, President and CEO of the National Cooperative Business Association, discusses the possibilities for the cooperative movement in 2012, designated by the UN as the International Year of Cooperatives.
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C-W Policy Guide...
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C-W.org's Federal Policy GuideLooking for programs that could support your community work? Here you'll find brief descriptions of some key federal community wealth building policies. Combined with links to relevant trade association and government sites, we hope this Policy Guide provides you with a helpful information portal.
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C-W.org Toolbox

toolboxLooking to build community wealth institutions in your own community? Here you'll find manuals and other how-to materials. Combined with the links to support organizations in the different sections of our website, we hope these tools will help set you on your way.
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