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Institute for New Economic Thinking

Founded in October 2009, the Institute for New Economic Thinking is a nonprofit that seeks to promote changes to our current economic system and support new paradigms in the understanding of economic processes through conferences, grants and education initiatives. George Soros has pledged $50 million over ten years to fund this Institute; the majority of the funds will finance grants.

Institute for Comprehensive Community Development

A project of LISC Chicago, the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development works to build the capacity of community development practitioners by providing technical assistance to community development initiatives across the nation, highlighting and developing best practices and supporting public policy that effectively links government programs to community development. The Institute focuses on a holistic approach that looks beyond single issue, project-based strategies and instead incorporates a broad vision of how local agencies, organizations and institutions can partner to improve a community's quality of life.

Insight Center for Community Economic Development

Formerly known as the National Economic Development and Law Center, the Insight Center has restated its mission as “Helping people and communities become, and remain, economically secure.” The group works across sectors and has had a perspective of race to its work, including a project to expand the impact of experts of color in the savings and asset building field, as well as innovative research that will help strengthen minority- and women-owned businesses.

Innovation@cfed

innovation@cefd is a new resource site launched by CFED, a leading asset-building organization, which hopes to facilitate the next generation of effective strategies to build economic opportunity. The Innovators-in-Residence program will help identify individuals with promising ideas who would benefit from additional monetary and technical support.

Demos

Founded in 1999, Demos is a multi-faceted research and advocacy organization that focuses on issues of democracy, the health of the public sector, and the creation of a public realm of debate and ideas. It also has an economic opportunity program that focuses on promoting new ideas in the areas of higher education, income and asset-based policy as means of building wealth among people of low and moderate incomes.

COMM-ORG

Founded in 1995 and hosted at the University of Toledo, COMM-ORG has evolved into a community of scholars, community organizers, community development workers, and others that looks at a broad array of community wealth building strategies. The website includes a wide range of scholarly articles and links to many other related sites of interest.

Center for Community Capital, University of North Carolina

The Center for Community Capital conducts research on the role of CDCs and CDFIs, with a focus in three areas; 1) Exploring ways to leverage electronic banking technology to create new markets for financial services and savings accumulation opportunities for residents of underserved communities; 2) Supporting community wealth-building through home ownership; and 3) Documenting the business potential of America's urban and rural emerging markets.

Big Ideas for Jobs

An initiative of the University of California, Berkeley with the support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Big Ideas for Jobs is an effort to tackle unemployment in the short-term. Bringing together more than a dozen experts from a variety of fields, the project tasked them with coming up with job creation ideas that require limited investment and are practical, tested and available to low-skilled workers. In addition to listing the many reports and ideas for this initiative, the website also allows for visitors to submit their own short-term employment ideas to be considered for inclusion in the next Big Jobs report.

University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives

The Center for Cooperatives at the University of Wisconsin conducts research, training, and education on cooperatives. Its web site includes an extensive clearinghouse of information on nearly all sectors of the cooperative movement.

Quentin Burdick Center for Cooperatives (North Dakota State)

This web site makes available a large number of studies on agricultural cooperatives, as well as the text of speeches from leading agricultural cooperative leaders.

Go Co-op

Whether the goal is understanding what a co-op is, searching for one nearby or starting a new co-op, Go Coop is a resource for much of what one needs to know about co-ops. This user-friendly resource is invaluable for anyone exploring or venturing into the world of co-ops.

Filene Research Institute

The Filene Research Institute is a leading research institute of the credit union industry that publishes many studies and has been a leader in encouraging credit unions to address the needs of low-income people who lack bank accounts. While its studies are pricey for non-members, abstracts of these studies are available in the Institute's newsletter, which can be downloaded from the site for free.

Discussion Course on Cooperatives

The Discussion Course on Cooperatives is a group-education tool for people who would like to become familiar with cooperative economics, history and philosophy. The discussion format is centered around carefully selected readings made accessible through a concisely planned anthology. Short readings and lively interpersonal discussions make it an ideal learning environment for busy people who would like to maximize their educational experience.

Data Commons Project

The Data Commons Project is a collaborative effort among a diverse array of organizations in the U.S. and Canada who share a mission of building and supporting the development of a cooperative economy. The group aims to develop an accurate, comprehensive, public database of cooperative economic initiatives in North America.

Cultivate.Coop

Cultivate.Coop is as an online hub for pooling knowledge and resources on cooperatives. It provides a free forum for those interested in cooperatives and serves as a place where people can build educational tools for the co-op community.

Cooperative Grocers' Information Network

The Cooperative Grocers' Information Network is the leading site for information exchange among food cooperatives.

Cooperative Grocer

Cooperative Grocer is the leading publication of the food cooperative industry. The web site has articles of back issues for the past 20 years.

Co-op Month website (courtesy of the National Cooperative Business Association)

This website, developed in 2004, includes a directory of over 14,000 co-ops in the United States, a number of studies on the economic impact of cooperatives, cases studies of dozens of cooperatives in different sectors, and links to leading national co-op sector organizations.

Co-op 100 (courtesy of the National Cooperative Bank)

The Co-op 100 lists the 100 largest cooperatives (in terms of revenue). In 2003, the 100 largest co-ops alone had a combined $117 billion in sales and controlled $284 billion in assets.

Communities Directory

The Communities Directory is a listing of intentional communities — people who live together or share land for a common purpose. Different types of intentional communities are eco-villages, co-housing (private housing with shared common facilities), community land trusts, and housing cooperatives. The Communities Directory lists more than 1,200 groups throughout Canada and the United States.

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