- Teen Vogue recently published a piece on the role publicly owned utilities can play in addressing the climate crisis, including a quote from Johanna Bozuwa, Co-Manager of The Democracy Collaborative’s Climate & Energy program.
- Director of Healthcare Engagement David Zuckerman was quoted in an article in Next City about leveraging city and anchor procurement to support minority- and women-owned business enterprises, discussing the Healthcare Anchor Network’s efforts in this area.
- Nonprofit Quarterly published an article about universities and the anchor mission, highlighting the work of the Anchor Learning Network, a joint initiative of The Democracy Collaborative and the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. The article discusses the growing conversation around centering equity and inclusion in anchor work.
- Preston, England was included in the New Economics Foundation’s Change the Rules mapping series, with an entry on the city’s efforts around community wealth building. Read more about the Preston Model here, and about the series below.
- The Fifty by Fifty blog recently profiled Project Equity’s work promoting business retention through employee ownership, detailing partnerships with city governments in Berkeley and Long Beach, California.
- Vice President for Racial Equity and the Democratic Economy Ronnie Galvin contributed a piece to Truthout about the recent announcement that Papa John’s Pizza franchise would place a location on every historically Black college and university (HBCU) campus. To actually confront racism, Ronnie outlines the need for economic approaches that center building wealth in the community instead of extracting it.
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New from The Democracy Collaborative
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In this new report, A History of Nationalization in the United States, 1917-2019, Thomas M. Hanna explores the history of the federal government nationalizing – the process of shifting ownership and or control from private to public hands – certain businesses, assets, or industries to advance the public interest. Rather than being an anomaly, the US actually has a rich history of taking control of private enterprise, particularly in times of economic or social crisis. As we face a growing global climate crisis, this history of nationalization can potentially inform a strategy to take over and decommission the large fossil fuel extraction corporations that are blocking action on climate change. The report is accompanied by is an interactive timeline, a chart visualizing the frequency of nationalization, and a brief video.
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The Democracy Collaborative has signed on to the Jobs for All Manifesto, joining many other organizations working for racial and economic justice in calling on our political leaders to enact a federal job guarantee and ensure that everyone who wants to work can have a living-wage job. Our partners at PolicyLink are working to enlist additional organizations and individuals to sign on to the manifesto, so please consider adding your name to this important initiative by November 27th.
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The Next System Podcast: The Homes Guarantee
This episode of The Next System Podcast focuses on transformative solutions that center housing as a human right, featuring the organizations Pathways to Housing DC, Stomp Out Slumlords, KC Tenants, and People’s Action.
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All Things Co-op: Emilia-Romagna
Director of Communication John Duda joins the All Things Co-op podcast to discuss cooperative economies, focusing on the Emilia Romagna region in northern Italy
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Federal Reserve Paper on Community Wealth & Resiliency
Thomas Hanna and Johanna Bozuwa contributed an article to a collection of papers from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco outlining the financial risks of climate change and potential solutions. The article focuses on the intersection of community wealth building and climate resiliency, suggesting how alternative models of ownership such as public enterprise or worker-owned businesses can help ensure that resiliency strategies will benefit the residents who will be most impacted by climate change. Read more here.
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The State of Community Wealth Building
“Over the last ten years, we have seen community wealth building emerge as part of a new economic movement,” opens this new report from our partners at the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), based in Manchester, England. The report provides an overview of the community wealth building movement across the UK, highlighting the principles driving the framework, examples of the strategies in practice, and emerging best practices. The report also outlines challenges to scaling this approach and recommends next steps to establish community wealth building as the new norm for economic development. Read more here.
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Change the Rules
This new website from the New Economics Foundation maps projects across the UK that advance a more democratic and sustainable economy. The website includes a “New Economy Map” that provides a catalogue of initiatives as well as a compendium of policies and solutions needed to advance and scale these approaches. Learn more here.
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