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Dear Colleague,
Welcome to our February www.Community-Wealth.org newsletter. This month’s developments include:
- The Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) Collective released a free e-book, Scaling Up the Cooperative Movement, co-edited by Democracy Collaborative Senior Research Associate Thomas Hanna and cooperative development consultant Andrew McLeod. Among the contributions to the edited volume are essays by Collaborative Co-founder Gar Alperovitz and Senior Fellow Joe Guinan. Read more below. Additionally, Thomas’s blog on locally owned power in Nebraska was featured in Yes! Magazine. For more information on worker- cooperatives, take a look at this new video from the Toolbox for Social Education and Action (TESA) and GRITtv.
- We want to congratulate our friends and partners at the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network for receiving the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. This award will support Roosevelt’s continued efforts to engage young people in transforming the relationships between educational institutions and communities.
- In Alternet, Senior Fellow Gus Speth describes the current state of “uneconomic growth” in America, marked by high levels of distrust, depression, and inequality. Gus highlights several locally rooted business forms that can support a transition to a people-oriented economy including social enterprises, benefit corporations, and worker-cooperatives.
- Community Development Associate Violeta Duncan describes community foundations’ transition from passive to active grantmaking in this Social Enterprise Canada article. Violeta was also named to the first class of the Institute for Policy Studies’ New Economy Maryland fellows.
As always, we continue to add new links, articles, reports, and other materials to the site. Look for this symbol *NEW* to find the most recent additions.
Ted Howard
Executive Director, The Democracy Collaborative
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