Community Wealth Newsletter: September 2016

This month's developments include:

• We join the growing call to "Reclaim Public Medicine for Public Health," signing onto a letter advocating for the transformation of the pharmaceutical sector. 
• We share a recording of a panel we moderated at Netroots Nation 2020 focused on the growing momentum for public ownership, exploring how grassroots campaigns are working to advance alternatives to profit-centered corporations in finance, energy and housing. 
• The Next System Project published the latest entry in Prescriptions for Economic Renewal series focuses on the opportunity to defund and demilitarize police departments

This month's developments include:

• We release a new guide for asset managers and impact investors interested in employee ownership transitions
• We publish a joint report with the People’s Policy Project and the Next System Project about how a federal takeover can start to meaningfully address the climate emergency and remove fossil fuel interests from the political equation. 
• We share video content from our Community Wealth Building Summit, and a revised definition of Community Wealth Building 

This month's developments include:

• The Next System Project recently released a new report, co-authored with Oil Change International, The Case for Public Ownership of the Fossil Fuel Industry.
• Executive Vice President Marjorie Kelly and Research Director Thomas Hanna recently proposed the creation of Local Economy Preservation Funds in an op-ed for Next City. 
• We share a new book from the Transnational Institute, co-published by The Democracy Collaborative and numerous other international partners, chronicling the global advance of municipalization

This month's developments include:

• We reflect on the importance of bold policies to build a more democratic economy in response to COVID-19
• We announce the Fund for Employee Ownership's first aquisition, Cleveland-based Berry Insulation, which will now be on the path to transition to employee ownership

This month's developments include:

• We release a new report focused on the intersection of employee-owned and mission-led businesses, finding that these enterprises outperform their peers on social and environmental outcomes.
• We publish an article focuisng on wins for the democratic economy in 2018, highlighting polices and initiatives related to public banking, worker co-ops, and community land trusts.

This month's developments include:

• We release a new report: A History of Nationalization in the United States, 1917-2019.
• We announce a new commitment from 14 health systems that are part of the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) to invest $700 millionto address the economic, racial, and environmental resource disparities that impact community health outcomes.
• We share the Jobs for All Manifesto, which TDC has signed, 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.

This month's developments include:

• We share two new transformative proposals that drive equity and affordability in the critical sectors of medicine and housing: Medicine for All and a National Homes Guarentee
• We announce the launch of the Anchor Learning Network, a three-year commitment from over 30 universities to implement anchor strategies that leverage their core business practices to build community wealth
• We share developments in the field of employee ownership

This month's developments include:

• We announce the release of our new book, Making of a Democratic Economy, authored by co-founder and president of The Democracy Collaborative, and Marjorie Kelly, Executive Vice President and author of The Divine Right of Capital and Owning our Future
• We share three reports that offer important new insights and suggestions on how we can develop democratic public ownership
• We release Public Finance for the Future We Want, co-published with the Transnational Institute (TNI), the New Economics Foundation (NEF), the Tellus Institute, Change Finance, Focus on the Global South, Fairfin, and the MOBA Housing Network

This month's developments include:

• We release two new reports: Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges with Place-Based Partnerships and Anchor Institutions and Mission-led Employee-owned Firms: The Best of the Best. 
• We highlight the work of The Democracy Collaborative in the May 2019 special issue of In These Times magazine, “Getting to Zero,” which features an article on the need for democratic public control of electric utilities
• We share the latest installment from our Elements of the Democratic Economy series and a resource on scaling worker cooperatives
• We welcome Michellene Davis, Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of RWJBarnabas Health, to The Democracy Collaborative’s Board of Trustees

The month's developments include: 

• We release a new report, Energy Democracy: taking back power. Authored by Research Associate Johanna Bozuwa, the report examines both the benefits and challenges of publicly owned energy utilities and the steps needed to bring about energy democracy
  
• We share about developments in community wealth building from Preston, England
• We highlight the work of the Healthcare Anchor Network, and an upcoming symposium on the social determinants of health 

This month's developments include:

• We share developments related to employee and community ownership, including an op-ed from Executive Vice President Marjorie Kelly in Fast Company, an article on the role of regional cooperative bankds from Research Fellow and Founder of the Real Economy Lab Jules Peck, and developments from our work with anchor institutions 
• We release a new installment of our CW City series: San Diego, California

This month's developments include:

• We release the latest publication in our Community Wealth Innovators Series, An Indigenous Approach to Community Wealth Building, authored by Stephanie Gutierrez, co-founder of Hope Nation LLC.
• We celebrate the launch of the Fund for Employee Ownership, a groundbreaking new investment strategy launched by the Evergreen Cooperative Corporation to expand the reach of employee ownership throughout Cleveland and Northeast Ohio 
• The Next System Project recently released a new paper on the Community Reinvestment Act, providing a historical analysis of the legislation and a framework for a next system of community reinvestment.

This month's developments include:

• We release a new report Community Control of Land & Housing,  as well as a new series, "Elements of the Democratic Economy"
• The Next System Project published a new report Taking Climate Action to the Next Level, which outlines a bold climate agenda including quantitative easing for the planet, public ownership for energy democracy, and anchor strategies for the energy transition.
• We celebrate the passage of the Main Street Employee Ownership Act, the first law in support of expanding employee ownership to pass Congress since 1997. 

This month's developments include:

• We welcome Ronnie Galvin as The Democracy Collaborative's Vice President of Engaged Practice
• We co-hosted the the inaugural convening of the Higher Education Anchor Mission Initiative with  the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities
• The Next System Project released a new report, authored by Research Director Thomas Hanna, on preparing a policy for public ownership rather than bailouts the next time there is a financial crisis
• We co-produced a new documentary video with the Laura Flanders Show that provides an in-depth look at the community wealth movement underway in Preston and elsewhere in England

This month's developments include:

• We announce the expansion of Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL), one of the worker-owned enterprises that is part of the Evergreen Cooperatives
• We welcome Matthew Brown—one of the pioneering voices advancing the Preston Model in England—to The Democracy Collaborative as a Senior Fellow for the Promotion of Community Wealth Building
• We release the latest in our CW City Series: Birmingham, Alabama 

This month's developments include:

• We share several new community wealth building developments, including the launch of the Owíŋža Quilters Cooperative, the first business in a social enterprise strategy to create jobs and build community wealth on the Pine Ridge Reservation
• We announce the Anchor Collaborative Convening, which will convene anchor collaboratives from cross the country to share lessons learned and best practices
• We share a new one-pager outlining the 8 Basic Principles of Community Wealth Building

This month's developments include:

• We share a new resource democratic ownership models that helped inform a recent policy report from the UK-based Institute for Public Policy Research
• We highlight a growing initiative around anchor institution support for community wealth building in Miami, Florida
• We discuss developements in employee ownership across the U.S.

This month's developments include:

• We discuss pathbreaking community welath building strategies emerging in Preston, England.
• We discuss developemnts around hospitals and the role they can play in catalyzing community health
• Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly was recently interviewed inYes! Magazine about The Democracy Collaborative’s work supporting Fifty by Fifty
• We feature a new C-W City: Nashville, Tennessee

This month's developments include:

• The Next System Project re-launches its website and a new podcast
• We release the Anchor Mission Playbook, prepared by Rush University Medical Center (RUMC), which details the process that RUMC developed to better align their institutional resources—namely hiring, purchasing, investment, and volunteer base—with community health and well-being.
• Ted Howard and Gar Alperovitz author a new article, After the Storms: Defeating Trumpism, Rebuilding America

This month's developments include:

• We discuss city-level innovations in Richmond, Virginia and Newark, New Jersey
• A recent article in Forbes highlights Fifty by Fifty’s report Impact Investing and Employee Ownership
• We release the latest installment on our latest  Community-Wealth.org blog, a post from Democracy Collaborative Fellow and social enterprise expert Jenny Kassan
• We release a new city in our CW City series: New Haven, CT

This month's developments include:

• We welcome Valerie Piper as the new Vice President of Engaged Practice at The Democracy Collaborative.
• Executive Vice President & Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly and Chief Financial Officer & Director, Employee Ownership Programs Jessica Bonanno were honored by the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations with fellowships to further their research on employee ownership. 
• In an article in The Nation, Democracy Collaborative Co-Founder Gar Alperovitz, Next System Project Executive Director Joe Guinan, and Research Director Thomas Hanna put forward the idea of “quantitative easing for the planet,” in which the government would buy out fossil-fuel companies in order to keep unburnable carbon in the ground. 
• The Next System Project announced six winning original essays from the 2016 “What’s Next?” essay contest. 

This month's developments include:

• We continued the conversation about healthcare and launched the Volume 5 of the Next System Project 
• We release two new publications that suggest a way forward Towards Gender Liberation and Advancing The Anchor Mission Of Healthcare

This month's highlights include:

• We release the third toolkit in the Hospitals Aligned for Healthy Communities toolkit series on Place-Based Investing
• We publish the forty-first in our Community Wealth Cities series on Dallas, TX.
• We share learnings from our December event Advancing the Anchor Mission of Healthcare
• Democracy Collaborative Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Next System Project Gar Alperovitz contributed articles to Truthout, The Nation, and Medium 
• Evergreen Cooperatives is featured in Smithsonian Magazine and in the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt museum’s exhibit By The People: Designing a Better America

This month's highlights include:

• We launch our new toolkit series, Hospitals Aligned for Healthy Communities, produced with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and designed to help hospitals and health systems build community wealth through inclusive hiring, investment, and purchasing.
• We release of our latest report, Strategies for Financing the Inclusive Economy, which highlights tools for financing cooperatives as well as other broad-based ownership models such as employee stock ownership plans and municipal enterprise.
• A new working paper from The Next System Project was prepared as a framing document for the “After Fossil Fuels: The New Economy” conference held at Oberlin College in early October, at which our co-founders Gar Alperovitz and Ted Howard spoke.

This month's developments include:

• Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly, Manager of Community Development Programs Sarah McKinley, and Associate of Community Wealth Building Research and Strategy Violeta Duncan contribute an article to the U.K.-based journal Renewal in which they outline the tenets of community wealth building and a vision for a more inclusive and sustainable economy.
• A recent article in The Progressive discusses growing political interest in democratizing the economy and highlighted the work of Democracy Collaborative Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Next System Project Gar Alperovitz.
• We welcome author, attorney, activist, and former candidate for California State Treasurer Ellen Brown to the The Democracy Collaborative team as a Fellow. Ellen is a founder of the Public Banking Institute.
• As part of The Next System Project, we publish an article by Erik Lampmann on the importance of building LGBTQ justice into conversations about system design, as well as an essay from organizer Jennifer Bryant on a Washington DC-based cooperative that exemplifies Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard’s vision for a cooperative solidarity commonwealth
  
• The Next System Project co-hosts a webinar on energy democracy in conjunction with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Local Clean Energy Alliance, Cooperative Energy Future,
  Alliance for a Green Economy, and the Sierra Club, and releases a new animation on David Bollier's proposal for "commoning" to change the current system.

This month's developments include:

• The Next System Project teach-ins were recently held at the University of Washington Seattle, the University of California Santa Barbara, and the University of Texas-Arlington.
• The Next System Project Co-Chair and Democracy Collaborative Co-Founder Gar Alperovitz and Next System Project Director of Special Initiatives Ben Manski discuss the past, present, and future of the Teach-In movement in an op-ed published in Truthout, while Acronym TV and Counterpoint Radio feature interviews with Next System Project Teach-In Coordinator Dana Brown.
• The Next System Project announces a national essay competition, calling for proposals on systemic alternatives. Winning essays by college undergraduates, graduate students and non-students are eligible for $5,000 prizes.
• Our Co-founder and author of The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb Gar Alperovitz contributes an article to Salon that unravels the myths behind the United States' decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
• The Guardian features our Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly in a article on incorporating democratic ownership into the design of financial institutions.
• The Next System Project Co-Chair Gus Speth and MIT's J. Phillip Thompson note the current opportunity to align civil rights and environmental movements to create deep systemic transformation in an article for The Nation.
  
• Our Director of Strategy Development and Operations Jessica Bonanno gives a keynote address on community wealth building at the Poughkeepsie Community Wealth-Building Summit in Poughkeepsie, New York.

This month's developments include:

• The Next System Project reaches a landmark first anniversary: we host the first Next System Project Teach-ins in Madison, Wisconsin and New York City, release a new curriculum on system change, publish four new papers on alternative systemic models, release a new video on economic democracy, and published several new articles and interviews.
• We share the release of a Stanford Social Innovation Review article authored by Nick Tilsen, Executive Director of Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, in which he discusses how philanthropy can better partner with Native American communities to support economic revitalization.  
• Director of Special Projects Steve Dubb, along with other participants in the Learning/Action Lab, discussed our ongoing work at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in Portland, Oregon.
• Sarah McKinley gives a webinar presentation as part of the Community Builders Webinar Series, which showcases developers, planners, and community leaders working to create stronger communities and diverse economies in the American West.
• We welcome new Research Associate Jarrid Green and Research Assistant Emily Sladek to our team.

This month's developments include:

• On January 29 we will host Cities Building Community Wealth gathering, held in partnership with the CUNY School of Law Community and Economic Development Clinic and the Surdna Foundation. 
• We are pleased to release a new paper, Broad-Based Ownership Models as Tools for Job Creation & Community Development, authored by Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly, Director of Special Projects Steve Dubb, and Community Wealth Building Research and Strategy Associate Violeta Duncan. 
• In a recent newsletter, Raymond Baxter, Senior Vice President of Community Benefit, Research and Health policy at Kasier Permanente, shared The Democracy Collaborative’s most recent report Can Hospitals Heal America’s Communities? To learn more about this publication, tune into the Dialogue4Health webinar on January 27, which includes Manager of Healthcare Engagement David Zuckerman and Vice President of Total Health Partnerships at Kaiser Permanente Tyler Norris as presenters.
• The Next System Project published a conversation between Kate Diedrick of Solidarity Research Center and Atlanta-based community organizer “Mother” Mamie Moore, in which Moore discussed her background as an activist and the importance of community control in fostering transformative change.
• Co-Chair of the Next System Project Gar Alperovitz delivered a speech on “Community Wealth in the Age of Cooperation,” which was also livestreamed on Bloomington Community Radio’s Standing Room Only. 
• The Democracy Collaborative is now hiring. We are seeking an experienced Research Associate for our research department as well as a Research Assistant to work closely with Gar Alperovitz. Find more information, as well as application instructions, on our website.

This month's developments include:

• The release of our latest report, Cities Building Community Wealth, written by Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly and Manager of Community Development Programs Sarah McKinley. The report will be the centerpiece of a convening involving mayors, directors of economic development, scholars and practitioners on January 29 2016, co-hosted by the CUNY School of Law School Community and Economic Development Clinic.
• The Next System Project released a collection of essays by Co-Chair Gus Speth entitled Getting to the Next System: Guideposts on the way to a new political economy. This second report in the Next System Project research series outlines the nature of system change, pathways forward, and a vision for a new American Dream.
• Sarah McKinley and Ted Howard visisted St. Paul, Minnesota to meet with Nexus Community Partners, a community development intermediary in the Twin Cities focused on building community capacity. Building on The Democracy Collaborative's economic development framework, Nexus recently published a report about designing and implementing a community wealth building strategy for St. Paul's East Side.
• Director of Special Projects Steve Dubb wrote an article for Shelterforce's blog Rooflines on the $1.2 billion social enterprise industry and delivered the keynote address at the North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) conference. Manager of Healthcare Engagement David Zuckerman was interviewed by Catholic Health World about strategies hospitals can take to strengthen their local economies.
• The Democracy Collaborative congratulates our friend at Cleveland's Evergreen Energy Solutions (E2S) on their ranking in Fortune's list of the 100 fastest-growing inner city businesses.
• We are also delighted to welcome several new staff members to our growing team!

• Our latest report, Educate and Empower: Tools for Building Community Wealth, was profiled in Forbes magazine, Shareable, MassLive & Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). The Democracy Collaborative also hosted a webinar on practical strategies to empower residents to participate in community economic development.

• Gar Alperovitz, co-founder of The Democracy Collaborative and co-chair of the Next System Project, published an article in the RSA Journal.

• Gus Speth, co-chair of the Next System Project and senior fellow, was interviewed as a feature in the “Change Agent” series of the Great Transition Initiative, where he discussed his own environmental background and the goals of the Project.
• Last month, Next System Project Executive Director Joe Guinan joined Social Capital Markets’ (SOCAP) Co-founder & Convener Kevin Jones and sociology Professor Juliet Schor to facilitate a twitter chat about the need for systemic change. 

• Steve Dubb contributed to Shelterforce magazine’s Rooflines blog on the subject of converting businesses to employee ownership, and Ted Howard recently had the opportunity to talk with Equitable Opportunity radio about the role anchor institutions and worker cooperatives play in building a more inclusive economy. 

• Thomas Hanna, director of research, and Marjorie Kelly, executive vice president and senior fellow, had articles featured by the Great Transition Initiative on public ownership & common wealth trusts.   

• The Atkinson Foundation released two reports in their series on community wealth building initiatives in Toronta: The Prosperous Province: Strategies for Community Wealth. 

• Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperatives' highly innovative home-buyer program for employees was recently featured in Yes! Magazine, and Green City Growers was profiled in Crain’s Cleveland Business for its rapid growth. 

This month’s developments include: 

• We re-launch Community-Wealth.org website and release a new animated film explaining the community wealth building approach.

• The Democracy Collaborative is hiring for the following positions: Office Administrator, Communications Associate, Special Assistant to the Co-Founder,and National Coordinator of Teach-Ins on the Next System. 

• Gus Speth, Co-Chair of the Next System Project and a Senior Fellow with The Democracy Collaborative, speaks about the imperative of taking a systemic approach to confront the environmental crises facing us in The Leap. The Next System Project also released a new video featuring MIT Associate Professor of Urban Politics Phillip Thompson.

• We congratulate our partners in the Northwest Area Foundation-funded Learning/Action Lab for Community Wealth Building on several important milestones, as well as the Community Wealth Building Initiative for the launch of its first employee-owned company. 
•  An article in New Start Magazine examines critical success factors in the development of Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperatives. Manager of Community Development Programs Sarah McKinley was interviewed in the Polish publication Magazyn Miasta (Cities Magazine).

• Democracy Collaborative Co-Founder Gar Alperovitz contrasts American and European urban challenges in City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis, a collection of essays co-published by the culture and politics magazine n+1
• Recommended reads: Locking in the Promise to Buy Local from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Building Momentum from the Ground Up: A Toolkit for Promoting Justice in Policing from the The Center for Popular Democracy and PolicyLink; Increasing Financial Well-Being through Integration: Gaining and Sustaining Housing Stability from CFED; Land Banks and Land Banking: 2nd Edition from the Center for Community Progress.
• Featured websites: Wellspring Collaborative; Future Economy

This month’s developments include: 

• We release the public summary of our latest report, Healthcare Small Business Gap Analysis
• We announce the establishment of Anchors for Resilient Communities (ARC), a partnership with Health Care Without Harm and Emerald Cities Collaborative.
• The Next System Project is featured in The Nation, YES! Magazine and Orion Magazine. Articles in Grist and Next City  highlight The Democracy Collaborative’s work in Cleveland, Baltimore, and Rochester. The cities of Philadelphia, Toronto and Preston, England launch anchor-based community wealth building strategies. 
• New C-W City: Indianapolis, Indiana
• Recommended reads: Beyond Business as Usual: Putting Cooperation to Work in Austin, TX, Cooperation Texas; Our Kind of Town: A Financial Plan that Puts Chicago’s Communities First, The ReFund America Project, Roosevelt Institute; Successful Cooperative Ownership Transitions: Case Studies on the Conversion of Privately Held Businesses to Worker Cooperatives, Democracy at Work Institute and the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives; Exploring Economic and Health Impacts of Local Food Procurement, Illinois Public Health Institute and the Crossroads Resource Center.
• Featured websites: Economics for Equity & Environment; Build Healthy Places Network

This month’s developments include:

• We release our first annual impact report. 
  
• In Nonprofit Quarterly, Democracy Collaborative Co-founder Gar Alperovitz discusses the growing wealth and income divide in the United States. Gar also co-authored an article with Senior Research Associate Thomas Hanna in YES! Magazine, in which they discuss net neutrality and community-owned broadband.
• We announce that we will be working with the City of Rochester, New York to develop a plan to launch worker-owned cooperatives in partnership with local anchor institutions.
• Politico Magazine highlighted the Evergreen Cooperatives and their role in the Greater University Circle Initiative in an article and video. 
• Our report A New Anchor Mission for a New Century was cited by Laura Flanders in YES! Magazine; Peter Berliner, managing director of Mission Investors Exchange; and Gerry Roll, Executive Director for the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky.

Happy New Year and welcome to our January www.Community-Wealth.org newsletter. We start 2015 with the following developments:

• Our most recent report A New Anchor Mission for a New Century was profiled earlier this month in Forbes magazine and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
• In an Al Jazeera article, Democracy Collaborative Co-founder Gar Alperovitz argues for a guaranteed income to improve the plight of veterans and in a Truthout article Gar explores the challenges of structuring institutions of justice. Gar and the Collaborative are also cited in an article in Dissent magazine describing Reading, Pennsylvania’s rebuild Reading initiative.
• We share the findings of the National Cooperative Business Association's exploratory journey (Democracy Collaborative Research Director Steve Dubb participated in the delegation) to learn about the conversion of state controlled enterprises into worker-owned cooperative in Cuba.
• In December, our Executive Director Ted Howard presented at the Annual Learning Exchange of the Richmond based B-corp and CDFI, Virginia Community Capital. 
• C-W Interview: Ed Whitfield, Fund for Democratic Communities

• The Democracy Collaborative released a new report, A New Anchor Mission for a New Century: Community Foundations Deploying All Resources to Build Community Wealth.
• We launched our Anchor Dashboard Learning Cohort, a group of universities that will work together to measure their impact in communities, and share results, challenges and successes.
• Executive Director Ted Howard discusses the need for a new federal policy strategy to help cities leverage the economic might of their anchor institutions to benefit communities in the Center for American Progress’ TalkPoverty blog
• Journalist Tanvi Misra discusses anchors as a place-based community revitalization strategy in The Atlantic’s CityLab.
• In an openDemocracy article, University of Oxford political theorist Stuart White notes the role that community wealth building can have as a potential solution to widening inequality.
• Fast Company magazine celebrates Thunder Valley Community Economic Development Corporation, a participant in our Learning/Action Lab for Community Wealth Building from the Pine Ridge Reservation.
• Democracy Collaborative Co-founder Gar Alperovitz contributed articles to Truthout & Al Jazeera and attended the Praxis Institute’s Economics of Sustainability Conference & La Montanita Co-op’s annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• C-W Interview:  José Corona, Executive Director of Inner City Advisors (ICA)

This month's new developments include: 

• The Democracy Collaborative released a new report, Policies for Community Wealth Building: Leveraging State and Local Resources. 
• The Washington Post published an article describing Richmond, Virginia’s newly established Office of Community Wealth Building. A New Republic article explored how cooperatives can support a green economy and a Yes! Magazine article focused on how land trusts, worker ownership, and public banking can help reduce inequality.
• Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times and appears in a joint interview with economic geography scholar David Harvey, conducted by Journalist Laura Flanders of GRITtv.
• New Report Outlines Emerging Best Practices in State & Local Policies to Build Community Wealth
• Federal Commitment to Higher Workforce Standards Reduces Inequality
• Communities Address Racial Inequity through Investment in Local Food Systems
• Healthcare Institutions Invest Locally to Build Sustainable and Healthy Communities
• The Road So Far: Penn Leaders Recount Path to Building an Anchor Mission
• Participatory Budgeting Project
• Impact Investing Policy Collaborative

This month's new developments include: 

• The Democracy Collaborative is pleased to share our latest report, Building Community Wealth: An Action Plan for Northwest Jacksonville
• Democracy Collaborative co-fonder Ted Howard discussed best practice approaches for measuring the impact of anchor institutions in a webinar hosted by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC). He also moderated a plenary panel at CleanMed 2014 on the Cleveland anchor institution framework
• Research Director Steve Dubb’s Leveraging the Power of Local Institutions presentation at the American Independent Business Alliance’s 2014 Go Local, Grow Local conference is also available
• Working with the Northwest Area Foundation and Native American community development leaders from across the northwestern United States, The Democracy Collaborative recently wrapped up the first year of our “Learning/Action Lab for Community Wealth Building”
  
• enior Research Associate Thomas Hanna and Andrew McLeod of Collective Seeds Consulting Cooperative guest edit Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO)’s blog series, Scaling-Up the Cooperative Movement
  
• C-W Interview: Ai Jen Poo
• Guide Outlines Strategies to Sustain Community Assets
• Philanthropic Organizations Seek to Expand Social Impact
• Report Outlines Agenda to Increase Financial Service Access in Communities of Color
• Latino and African American Homeowners Face Continued High Levels of Underwater Mortgages
• National Resource Network
• The Working World
•  Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz spoke on the keynote panel at the New Economy Coalition’s Commonbound Conference and gave the closing keynote address at the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Action Plan Outlines Strategy to Builid Community Wealth in Jacksonville, Florida

This month's new developments include:

• Join us on June 5 for a free webinar on “Measuring the Shared Value of Anchor Community Engagement,” hosted by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. 
• Democracy Collaborative co-founder Ted Howard spoke at the City of Memphis’ 2014 Neighborhood Redevelopment Conference on “Building Healthy Communities from the Inside Out.”
• Ted Howard delivered the keynote address on “Closing the Wealth Gap: the Community Wealth Building Paradigm” at the German Marshall Fund’s Strong Cities, Strong Communities National Network Workshop in Cleveland.
• Our research director Steve Dubb presented on anchor institution strategies and equitable development for a PolicyLink webinar and at the 25^th anniversary conference of the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development.
• Steve and research associate Dave Zuckerman were featured presenters at the MedStar Health Roundtable at Georgetown University.
• Dave and research associate Sarah McKinley discussed impact metrics for anchor institutions at the Community-Campus Partnership for Health Conference along with David Perry of the University of Illinois, Chicago and Leif Elsmo of the University of Chicago Medical Center. 
• In its newest Field Guide to Investing in a Regenerative Economy, the Capital Institute outlines Cleveland’s Evergreen model.
• In a DiversityInc interview, Orlando Santaella, a worker-owner of Evergreen Energy Solutions, talks about the transformative role that Evergreen has had on his life.
• Co-founder Gar Alperovitz presented a keynote address at the Social Transformation through Social Innovationconference,
• Gar discussed the merits of a guaranteed minimum income in this CNN article and appeared in a featured video on Upworthy.
• Gar also questioned the assumption that economic growth is universally good in a recent Al Jazeera America article.
• A free download of The Democracy Collaborative's chapter "Economic Democracy", featured in the new anthologyAchieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles & Practices, is now available.
• Democracy Collaborative senior fellows Marjorie Kelly and Joe Guinan and senior researcher Thomas Hanna each contribute chapters to a new free e-book,Democratic Wealth: Building a Citizens' Economy.
• Income Inequality Rises in Every State Across the Country
• New Sectoral Employment Initiatives Broaden Opportunity for All
• Speculative Finance Endangers Environmental and Economic Sustainability
• Trade Unions and Worker Cooperatives Unite
• A Practical Playbook
• Roots and Branches

This month's new developments include: 

• Democracy Collaborative Research Associate David Zuckerman presents at the American Hospital Association webinar series, “Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence"
• Gar Alperovitz spoke with Peter Buffett, chairman of the NOVO Foundation, on systemic change
• Democracy Collaborative Research Director Steve Dubb participated on a panel at the Aspen Institute to discuss “Big Ideas for Job Creation” 
• Our Learning/Action Laboratory for Community Wealth Building met in Cleveland to learn about the city’s Greater University Circle Initiative and the Evergreen Cooperatives
• The release of a new guide on crowdfunding and value chains and an article on article regarding a Cincinnati Union Co-op gathering
  
• The release of the Worker Cooperatives section on our website
  
• Imagining Systemic Change with Peter Buffett
• C-W City: Richmond, Virginia
• Lawmakers Respond to Household Financial Insecurity
• New Book Combats Enclosures and Embraces the Commons
• GDP Alternatives Better Capture Measures of Progress
• New Guide Outlines Tools to Spur Local Investment
• The Equality of Opportunity Project
• Boaz & Ruth

This month's new developments include: 

• The Collaborative welcomes Marjorie Kelly to our staff as a Senior Fellow and Director of Advisory Services.
• We organized the first strategy workshop of the Next System Project, an initiative co-chaired by Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz and prominent environmentalist Gus Speth.
• The Anchor Dashboard encourages conversations about how to measure the impact of an anchor mission for low-income communities in a Federal Reserve audioconference, Governing magazine, and in Rooflines: The Shelterforce Blog.
  
• Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz appeared on Russia Today’s Breaking the Set to discuss his new book, What Then Must We Do?.
• Gar Alperovitz Reflects on Dr. King's Economic Justice Challenge
• Video Showcases Anchor Dashboard for Measuring Community Impact
• Report Explores Green Economies as Drivers of Community Wealth
• Worker Co-op Launched in Springfield, Massachusetts
• International Survery Counts 2.9 Million Worker Co-op Member-Owners
• Municipal Enterprises Create Jobs and Promote Sustainability
• The Maine Employee Ownership Network
• Asset Building Policy Network

This month’s new developments, include:

• Our Anchor Dashboard paper, designed to help institutions assess the long-term impact of their economic development activities, was featured in a presentation at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of University Partnerships, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond’s Redefining “Rust Belt” four-city videoconference, The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities’ annual conference, the Municipal Arts Society Summit for New York City, and at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City’s Inner City Economic Summit in Cleveland.
• Community Wealth Building Key to Democratizing the Economy
• C-W Interview: Reverend Barry Randolph
• Book Explores Equitable Solutions to Global Environmental Challenges
• New Series Investigates Community Wealth Building Inititatives Across the Nation
• Growing Opportunities to Invest Directly in Communities Builds Local Economies
• Collaboration Between Anchor Instituions and Food Hubs Supports Local Food Economies
• Center for Environmental Transformation
• Cincinatti Union Cooperative

This month’s new developments include:

• The release of The Democracy Collaborative’s latest paper and online tool The Anchor Dashboard: Aligning Institutional Practices to Meet Low-Income Community Needs, and companion research report Achieving the Anchor Promise: Improving Outcomes for Low-Income Children, Families and Communities
• The Democacy Collaborative convened our first gathering of Native American community development leaders in a “Learning/Action Laboratory for Community Wealth Building” supported by the Northwest Area Foundation
• Gar Alperovitz presented a keynote address at the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management
• The Capital Institute released video highlights from a symposium entitled “Beyond Sustainability: The Road to Regenerative Capitalism”
• Paper Provides Guide to Protecting Financial Resources for Older Adults
  
• Journal of Higher Educations Highlights Anchor Institution Movement
  
• Inclusive Capitalism Improves Worker Well-being While Addressing Economnic Disparity
  
• Broadband Access Promotes Local Economic Development
  
• European Federation of Employee Shared Ownership
  
• Pear Energy
  

Welcome to our July www.Community-Wealth.org newsletter. We celebrate the 237^th anniversary of the American Revolution with a number of new developments:

• The Democracy Collaborative and the Responsible Endowments Coalition (REC) will host a webinar on July 19 at 1pm presenting the findings of our jointly published report Raising Student Voices: Student Action for University Community Investment
  
• Ted Howard spoke at a St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank event, entitled “Exploring Innovation in Community Development”
• We continued our work to help expand the conversation on how hospitals as anchor institutions can improve the physical and economic health of their communities
• Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz continues his book tour for What Then Must We Do?
• CW Interview: Kate Sofis
  
• Paper Reviews Existing Knowledge of Anchor Institutions
  
• Financial Cooperaties Are a Credible Alternative to Mainstream Banks
  
• Study Shows that Working Renters Bear the Brunt of Housing Cost Burdens
  
• Documentary Film Highlights Local Approaches to Creating a New Economy
  
• The Community Toolbox
  
• Responsible Endowments Coalition
  

Welcome to our May www.Community-Wealth.org e-newsletter. This month we have a number of updates and features to bring you:

• The Democracy Collaborative and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT present the findings of our recent case study: The Anchor Mission: Leveraging the Power of Anchor Institutions to Build Community Wealth.
• The Democracy Collaborative announces a new partnership with the Northwest Area Foundation and several Native American tribes on a community economic development “Learning/Action Laboratory.”
• Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz continues his national tour promoting his latest book, What Then Must We Do? and accompanying film, The Next American Revolution.
• Community Wealth Buildling Action Agenda Offers Illinois a Path Forward
• Online Tool and Companion Brief Outline Community Benefits After Healthcare Reform
• Access to Healthy Food Stimulates Economic Opportunity
• New Report Calls for Joint Action to Build a Just Economy
• Study Recommends Expanding Mortgages to Owners of Manufactured Homes
• C-W City: Albuquerque, New Mexico
• County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
• Genuine Progress
• Community Health Needs Assessment
• Sawmill Community Land Trust

Welcome to our monthly www.Community-Wealth.org e-newsletter. We hope this new, shorter format provides you with more current news and an improved reading experience. Here's a look at what's inside:

• The Democracy Collaborative's latest report: Hospitals Building Healthier Communities.
• Information on Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz's forthcoming book, What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About The Next American Revolution.
• The grand opening of the third business in Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperative network, Green City Growers.
• Housing and Asset Policies Contribute to Racial Wealth Divide
• Analysis Paints Picture of Financial Insecurity in America
• Layoffs are Less Likely for Employee Owners
• EPA Presents Strategies for Healthy, Equitable Communities
• The American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange
• Farm To People

Welcome to our latest www.Community-Wealth.org e-newsletter. In this fall edition, we bring you many new developments and site features:

• The Cleveland Foundation received the HUD Secretary's Award for Community Foundations. 
• We interview delegation members from the Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-operative Union.
• We profile our twenty-eighth community wealth city: Providence, RI.
• Universities Positioned to Foster Community Development
• Practitioners Highlight Promising Anti-Poverty Strategies in Nation's Communities
• America the Possible Explains How Systematic Change is Still an Option
• Communities Reclaim their Energy Sources and Create Jobs
• New Models Offer Ownership Alternatives
• Research Shows Local Ownership Leads to Community Improvements
• Report Shows a Persistent "Good Jobs" Deficit
• Hybrid Businesses Combine Social Welfare and Revenue Generation
• Study Advocates Movement for Good Food and Good Jobs
• CDCs Shift Focus to More Comprehensive Services
• Scottish Report Examines Co-op and Employee-Owned Businesses
• Community-Based Research Uncovers Hidden Community Assets
• Task Force Calls for More Civic Education
• Head Start Program Provides Long-term Economic Stability Framework
• Oakland's Foreclosure Practices Lead to Spike in Non-Local Ownership
• Asset Building Advocates Call for National Movement to Reform Federal Policy
• Aspen Pointe
• Join Bank On
• Mission Investors Exchange
• Resilience.org
• The Rhode Island Foundation

• Shuman Offers a Road Map to Investing Locally and Sustainably
• Collins Surveys Rising Global Wealth Inequality
• America's Cooperative Movement Achieves New Growth and Success
• Report Shows that Valuing and Engaging Employees Creates Business Success
• Global Recession Reveals Strengths and Successes of Public Sector Banks
• PolicyLink Offers Recommendations for an Equitable Foreclosure Recovery
• Food Advocate Highlights Health Sector's Key Role in Sustainable Food Production
• Denver Health System Becomes Public Sector Star
• Survey Provides Most Comprehensive Look At Community Land Trusts To Date
• Usage and Impact of Community Workforce Agreements Increase Nationwide
• Opportunity Finance Network Rolls Out Next Generation Vision for CDFIs
• CFED's Scorecard Gives Low Marks to Americans' Financial Insecurity
• Study Scores States on 'Good Job' Standards for Economic Development Subsidies
• Interview with Community Wealth Builder, Caroline Murray
• 27th in Our Continuing Series of Community-Wealth Cities: Kansas City, Missouri
• Controlling the Corporation
• Blue Hills Community Services (Kansas City, Missouri)
• Central Corridor Funders Collaborative (St. Paul, MN)
• Co-opoly
• ImpactAssets (Bethesda, MD)

• American Sustainable Business Council Advances Policy Solutions and Makes the Business Case for a Sustainable Economy
• Strong Cultures of Employee Engagement Produce Business Success
• Cuyahoga County Land Bank Charts Innovative Direction
• Bottom-Up Approaches Address Economic System Failure
• Federal Asset-Building Policies Need to Offer More Opportunities for Low- and Moderate-Income Americans
• Ohio's Business Tax Subsidies Undermine Smart Growth
• Rust Belt Cities Develop Innovative Revitalization Strategies
• Rural Communities Benefit from Impact Investing
• Study Puts Information to Work for the Green Economy
• Interviews with Community Wealth Builders: Carla Javits
• C-W City, Fall 2011: Columbus, Ohio
• North American Co-op Educators Plan for International Year of Cooperatives
• Worker Co-op Conference Addresses Challenges of Growth
• The Co-operative News - The Global News Hub
• The Curriculum on Cooperatives for Graduate Schools
• Wealth Creation in Rural Communities
• Campus Partners

• Public Policy Can Expand Impact Investing
• Local Food Production Generates Large-Scale Economic Benefits
• Alternative Economic Development Strategies Stabilize Urban Economies
• A New Vision for Business Enterprise Promotes Broader Stakeholder Participation
• Living Cities Calls for a "New Normal"
• Business Network Creates Green Economy ToolKit
• Rural Communities Build Community Wealth
• Shared-Equity Housing Shares Rights and Risks, Not Just Equity
• Payments in Lieu of Taxes: Balancing Municipal and Nonprofit Interests
• New City Strategies Build Economic Security for Low-Income Americans
• Bank-On Programs Bring Banking Services to the "Unbanked"
• Social Impact Bonds Aim to Shift Public Funding to Focus on Results
• Community Ownership Advocated in Renewable Energy Study
• Report Evaluates Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy
• C-W.org Interview with John Emmeus Davis
• Community Wealth Cities: Memphis, Tennessee
• Green Jobs Advocates Aim to Build Movement at the Grassroots
• American Sustainable Business Council
• Cultivate.coop
• Fair Food Network
• LeMoyne-Owen College CDC
• Public Banking Institute