APPENDIX
NETWORKS OF THE DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY
To help readers get involved, we offer here a list—by no means comprehensive or exhaustive—of organizations working on elements of the democratic economy. Many of the national and international groups listed here have local partners or affiliates doing the ground work in specific communities.
INEQUALITY, RACIAL EQUITY, AND CAPITAL BIAS
Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) Institute: Campaign hub connecting struggles for racial justice with engaged research into the extractive, financialized economy.
Institute for Policy Studies: Movement- oriented progressive think tank dedicated to building a more equitable, ecologically sustainable, and peaceful society.
PolicyLink: Research and advocacy organization dedicated to the idea that “equity is the superior growth model.”
Roosevelt Institute: Policy and research think tank advancing ways to rewrite the rules of our unequal economy.
ORGANIZING AND ADVOCACY FOR A DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY
Community Change: Building the power and capacity of low- income people, especially low-income people of color, to fight for their communities’ future.
Cooperation Jackson (Mississippi): Inspiring local effort to advance an economy based in solidarity and self-determination in the deep South.
https://cooperationjackson.org
Democratic Socialists of America: Rapidly growing membership organization making a once- taboo word a force in practical local organizing.
NDN Collective: Platform for building indigenous power to advance transformative solutions.
New Economy Coalition: Brings together 200+ organizations into a network and platform for advancing a new economy.
New Economy Project (NYC): Organizing campaigns against the abuses of the current economy and for transformative solutions.
People’s Action: National network building community power to advance long- term change.
FINANCE AND INVESTING
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN): International knowledge exchange to accelerate impact investment.
National Community Reinvestment Coalition: Association of 600+ community-based organizations fighting against disinvestment and discrimination in the financial system.
Public Banking Institute: Hub of research and advocacy into publicly owned financial alternatives.
https://www.publicbankinginstitute.org
Social Capital Markets (SOCAP): Network and platform to advance impact investment and social entrepreneurship.
https://socialcapitalmarkets.net
The Working World: Innovative nonprofit lender fueling the development of worker cooperatives with non- extractive finance.
https://www.theworkingworld.org
EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP AND PROGRESSIVE BUSINESS
American Sustainable Business Council: Roundtable representing 250,000 businesses committed to a triple bottom line.
B Lab: A nonprofit organization that serves a global movement of people using business as a force for good.
Democracy at Work Institute: Research institute developing resources for the worker cooperative sector.
The ESOP Association: National lobbying organization for Employee Stock Ownership Plans, with regional chapters for companies.
https://www.esopassociation.org/
ICA Group: Longstanding center developing innovative models for democratic workplaces.
National Center for Employee Ownership: Clearinghouse for information and research on employee ownership.
Project Equity: Advancing employee ownership solutions for business owners, local policymakers, and community advocates.
https://www.project-equity.org
EQUITABLE LOCAL ECONOMIES
BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies): Convener and network builder advancing equity and sustainability in finance and business development.
Hope Nation: Consulting firm advancing community wealth building in Native communities.
https://www.hopenationconsulting.com
REDF (Roberts Enterprise Development Fund): Social enterprise accelerator that has helped create over 30,000 jobs for people facing barriers to employment.
LAND, HOUSING, AND COMMUNITY CONTROL
Center for Community Progress: Develops strategies to reclaim urban space for community- led development.
https://www.communityprogress.net
Grounded Solutions Network: Network of research and practice advancing permanently affordable, community-controlled housing.
Right to the City Alliance: Social movement network advancing housing and urban justice.
Build Healthy Places Network: Platform exploring the intersections of health equity and community development.
https://www.buildhealthyplaces.org
Health Care Without Harm: Catalyzing leadership on sustainability in the healthcare sector.
The Root Cause Coalition: Cross-sector collaboration tackling the social determinants of community health.
https://www.rootcausecoalition.org
JUST TRANSITION
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (Oakland): Base- building and organizing for environmental justice.
Climate Justice Alliance: Grassroots network of frontline communities fighting for an equitable response to climate crisis.
https://climatejusticealliance.org
Emerald Cities Collaborative: Creating high road economic development strategies for local sustainability.
Oil Change International: Research and advocacy around the urgent need to shut down fossil fuel extraction.
Sunrise Movement: Youth- driven activism agitating for a Green New Deal.
https://www.sunrisemovement.org
Uprose (NYC): Community- based mobilization to connect urban justice to climate adaptation and resilience.
CLES (Centre for Local Economic Strategies) (UK): Advancing a vision of economies grounded in community wealth building.
Momentum (UK): Grassroots network building power for transformative change.
New Economics Foundation (UK): Research institute advancing policy solutions for economic justice.
New Economy Organisers Network (UK): Developing strategic interventions to build movement capacity and shift the conversation around politics and the economy.
https://neweconomyorganisers.org
Transnational Institute (Amsterdam): Multisector think tank advancing a vision of an economy serving the public good.