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Community-Led Economic Regeneration – What Can We Learn From Cleveland, Ohio?

Krystian Seibert

Probono Australia

Krystian Seibert writes in Probono Australia in "Community-Led Economic Regeneration – What Can We Learn From Cleveland, Ohio?" Probono Australia highlights the needs and lessons from the Evergreen Coops...

The surprising US presidential election result has been met with an avalanche of analysis over what led to Donald Trump’s shock victory. One reason, which has popped up over and over again, is that segments of the “working class” in states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania felt “left behind” by the economic system and that Trump’s victory was partly a backlash against economic inequality and dislocation in the US.
States such as Ohio and Pennsylvania were once centres of industry, but in many parts of these states, factories have shut down and thousands of jobs have gone with them, some overseas.
Globalisation has led to economic growth in the United States – but this growth and its associated employment has been uneven and often concentrated in places that can seize the opportunities of the “new economy”. We hear a lot about the rise of Silicon Valley, but while it has been booming, many parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania have been going bust.

Hospitals Can Invest In Their Communities By Buying Locally

Paige Minemyer

Democracy Collaborative's Hospital Toolkit is mentioned in Fierce Healthcare—a publication that focuses on healthcare policy. Paige Minemyer writes that "health systems spend more than $340 billion every year on goods and services but many of those dollars do not reach populations facing the greatest health disparities" ...Read More

How to Build an Inclusive Economy Through Employee Ownership

Adam Wiskind

Triple Pundit

This blog post describes the initiative sponsored by The Democracy Collaborative to create 50 million employee-owners by 2050:

How Urban Governments Are Promoting Worker Co-ops

Michelle Camou, Grassroots Economic Organizing

City governments are shaping up as key actors accelerating worker co-op development.

Albuquerque’s Big Employers Start Major Buy Local, Hire Local Program

Johnny Magdaleno

Next City

A new article from Next City highlights the work of The Democracy Collaborative in convening multiple stakeholders in Albuquerque, NM around local hiring among healthcare institutions, universities, the City of Albuquerque, and the surrounding communities. The article cites The Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland, OH as a model for equitable community development:

ABQ hospitals behind initiative to hire, buy and develop local

Marissa Higdon

Albuquerque Business First

This article highlights an exciting partnership developing in Albuquerque, New Mexico among universities, hospitals, and local government that will help align healthcare institutions' resources toward community local hiring and sourcing. The inspiration for this alliance lies in Cleveland, Ohio with the Evergreen Cooperatives, a group of worker cooperatives pioneered by The Democracy Collaborative in the effort to democratize the local economy:

Hospitals lead ‘Healthy Neighborhoods’ initiative

Jessica Dyer

Albuquerque Journal

Several large anchor institutions in Albuquerque, New Mexico have adopted the local procurement practices pioneered in Cleveland, Ohio by The Democracy Collaborative and the Evergreen Cooperatives, helping galvanize the hospitals' resources and purchasing power to redirect wealth and health toward the community:

New initiative provides tools for health systems to re-invest in impoverished communities

Steven Ross Johnson

Modern Healthcare

The Democracy Collaborative's initiative to align hospitals in an effort to improve community health by increasing local hiring practices is taking root in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the city engages with a team of large healthcare institutions committed to promoting and utilizing the strategies in the toolkits released as part of the initiative:

Healthy Neighborhoods Albuquerque aims to create Main Street jobs

Michael Haederle

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Newsbeat

This article details how The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, with the help of The Democracy Collaborative, is leading anchor institutions commit to buy local and hire local to improve community health in their surrounding neighborhoods in Albuquerque:

Can Cooperative Businesses Save Communities?

Matthew Robare

The American Conservative

This article highlights the work being facilitated by The Democracy Collaborative across the United States to help incubate cooperative business and change city economies from the ground up:

Lancaster poverty commission to hear Thursday about Richmond, Va.'s push to end segregation, reduce poverty

Jeff Hawkes

Lancaster Online

In this article, journalist Jeff Hawkes highlights a poverty commission hearing in Lancaster, PA, wherein our friend Thad Williamson will be joined by our Director of Advisory Services Alexandra Rudzinski to describe the successes and strategies of the multi-prong event to eradicate poverty in Richmond, VA:

Powerful, under-used tool for reducing income-inequality: broad-based ownership

Marjorie Kelly

The Hill

In this article for The Hill, Democracy Collaborative Executive Vice President and Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly describes the growing movement toward broad-based ownership and how communities are coming together to take control of their local economies. Kelly highlights some of the innovative strategies used by communities on the ground, such as the cooperative ownership business conversion, which is poised to achieve expanded scale in the near future:

Community Foundations Pursue Impact Investments to Build Local Economies

Catherine Covington

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

In this issue of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, our Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly was featured for her work on equitable, sustainable community development and innovations in the community wealth building field.

Community Wealth Building Form: What they are and how to use them at the local level

Steve Dubb

Academy of Management Perspectives

In this article for the Academy of Management Perspectives, Steve Dubb, Director of Special Projects at the Democracy Collaborative, writes a comprehensive review on community wealth building strategies, progress, and implementation in local communities:

City mulling vanpool project as part of poverty fight

Patti Singer

Democrat & Chronicle

The Democracy Collaborative has been involved in advising the Rochester City Government on developing community wealth building strategies to create sustainable jobs and alleviate poverty:

Ashland Area Explores Development Alternatives

Danielle Kaeding

Wisconsin Public Radio

Our Manager of Community Development Programs was interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio as she travelled to Wisconsin to spread knowledge on economic development alternatives and empowerment programs based on equality and place-based cultural consciousness:

Community wealth building: America’s emerging asset based approach to city economic development

Marjorie Kelly, Sarah McKinley and Violeta Duncan

Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy

Across the United States a growing number of communities are experimenting with innovative ways to create a more equal, democratic, and community-based economy from the ground up. Our Vice President and Senior Fellow Marjorie Kelly, Manager of Community Development Programs Sarah McKinley, and Research Associate Violeta Duncan co-write a piece for the Renewal Journal on how we can use a "politics of place" and "politics for places" to uplift communities across the country and world:

Community Benefit - Going All-In: Why Embracing an Anchor Mission Is How Health Systems Benefit Their Communities

David Zuckerman

Catholic Health Association of the United States

David Zuckerman, our manager for health care engagement, authors this report (Going All-In: Why Embracing an Anchor Mission Is How Health Systems Benefit Their Communities) featured by the Catholic Health Association of the United States:

We didn’t need to drop the bomb — and even our WW II military icons knew it

Gar Alperovitz

Salon

Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative co-founder and author of The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, unravels the myths behind the stopping of the atomic bomb and the decision to decimate Hiroshima, Japan to end World War II:

Want to Hire a Worker-Owned Co-op? There’s an App for That

Michelle Stearn

Yes! Magazine

Originally published on Community-Wealth.org, this article by The Democracy Collaborative's Michelle Stearn highlights the work of Si Se Puede!, the Robin Hood Foundation, and a Cornell Tech graduate student program, all of whom converged as a team to develop an app for worker cooperative bookings:

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