Resources
This page is a work in progress. At present it is a snapshot of principles, practices, and models that Root Commons is grounded in.
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Networks
RadComms - Radical Communicators Network
RadComms is the infrastructure that ties political opportunity to collective action among social-justice communicators. What does it take for old systems to die and for new ones to be born and to thrive? Time, organizing, and the shaping of public imagination. How do we shape imaginations and build public will for crucial, innovative ideas like ... Read more
The Next Economy MBA | 9-Month Online Business Program | LIFT Economy
Join the Next Economy MBA — a 9-month online program for purpose-driven leaders building equitable, regenerative, and inclusive businesses. Learn sustainable strategy, innovative business models, and connect with a global community of changemakers.
The Offers and Needs Market https://offersandneeds.com/
Guides and Toolkits
Working with Consultants
Working with Consultants is a guide for mission-driven organizations and a living resource meant for practitioners throughout the nonprofit, social change, and community-impact sectors.
Solidarity Economics
The Solidarity Economy - New Economy Coalition
Another World Is Happening
Solidarity Economy Principles and Practices
Solidarity economy principles and practices help us build liberation cultures, democratic organizations, and accountable relationships.
Doughnut Economics Action Lab | DEAL
Turning the ideas of #DoughnutEconomics into action.
Cooperative Models
Home | Democracy at Work Institute
Multi-stakeholder Cooperatives - USDN Sustainable Consumption Toolkit
Businesses owned by a variety of stakeholder groups meet both economic and social goals for sustainable consumption through their commitment to meeting the needs of all their owners.
Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives
The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives or NoBAWC is a grassroots organization of democratic workplaces dedicated to building workplace democracy in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. NoBAWC is comprised primarily of worker cooperatives.
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Sustainable Economies Law Center: https://www.theselc.org/
Community Investment Models
Seed Commons: A Community Wealth Cooperative
We create non‑extractive financial infrastructure that shifts economic power to workers and communities.
Transform Finance
Transform Finance is a research and implementation partner that supports investors and social change actors to challenge legacy investment approaches, seed transformative investment models, and build movement power.
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Chordata Capital – Investment with a Backbone
Investment with a Backbone
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East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative
Solidarity Wealth Organizing
Decolonizing Wealth Project — Transforming Wealth into Collective Wellbeing
Money can be used as medicine. Through sector-transforming experiences, impact-based storytelling, and movement-led grantmaking, we use wealth to repair the harms of colonialism that impact our daily lives. Our healing-centered approach creates pathways to a world where everyone connects, relates, and belongs.
Candide Group
Candide Group supports families, foundations, and other institutions who want their money flowing to social justice companies and funds building a new economy.
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Home - Solidaire Network
Solidaire Network nurtures relationships between social movements and donor members to create regenerative systems rooted in love and justice.
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Believe wealth land and power should be shared? Join our email list. Resource Generation organizes young people (18-35) with access to wealth and class privilege in the U.S. to become transformative leaders working toward the equitable distribution of wealth, land and power. Wealth inequality stops with our generation
Organize the Rich | Michael Gast | Substack
We’ve tried eating the rich. What about organizing the rich? Click to read Organize the Rich, by Michael Gast, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Michael Gast
Labor Organizing
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Strengthening the labor movement for a sustainable, inclusive economy.
Tech Workers Coalition
A coalition of tech industry workers, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends cultivating solidarity among all workers in tech.
