California Reinvestment Coalition, Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina, Empire Justice Center, Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, Ohio Lending Coalition and Woodstock Institute
Ida Rademacher, Jennifer Brooks, Kasey Wiedrich, Genevieve Melford, Michelle Nguyen, Barbara Rosen, Chris Campbell, Kristin Lawton, Amy Radovich and Karen Murrell
This Democracy Collaborative report provides the first comprehensive survey of community wealth building institutions in the green economy. Featuring ten cases, the report identifies how policy and philanthropy can build on these examples to create "green jobs you can own."
Something important is happening in Cleveland: a new model of large-scale worker- and community-benefiting enterprises is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities most dramatically impacted by the nation's decaying economy. The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL)--a worker-owned, industrial-size, thoroughly "green" operation--opened its doors late last fall in Glenville, a neighborhood with a median income hovering around $18,000. It's the first of ten major enterprises in the works in Cleveland, where the poverty rate is more than 30 percent and the population has declined from 900,000 to less than 450,000 since 1950.
Resources do not represent community wealth unless communities own and control them. This handbook looks at various kinds of shared ownership, including cooperatives, employee ownership, community land trusts, municipal ownership, local and tribal ownership, mission-controlled ownership, and community covenants and easements. Each section looks at strengths, weaknesses, the range of applications, expertise required, and sources of assistance.
Unjust Deserts illustrates how most wealth depends on our "common stock of knowledge," thus making today's growing inequality morally indefensible. Written by Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly of Demos.
Our work with the Cleveland Foundation and Cleveland's anchor institutions to build an inclusive green economy continues, as outlined in this case study by Living Cities.
Written by John Emmeus Davis and Rick Jacobus, the Lincoln Institute's The City-CLT Partnership identifies local policies that support community land trust development.
How can universities leverage their resources for community benefit? This report from The Democracy Collaborative outlines a comprehensive strategy to meet that goal.
In the Spring 2007 issue of the National Housing Institute's journal Shelterforce, C-W.org' s own Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, and Ted Howard examine growing efforts nationwide to integrate individual and community wealth building.
How can universities leverage their resources for community benefit? This report from The Democracy Collaborative outlines a comprehensive strategy to meet that goal.
Glenn Johnson, Angel Torres, Samir Gambhir, Mary McGirl, Julie Nielsen, Jason Reece, Rebecca Reno, Denis Rhoden Jr., Christy Rogers, Angela Stanley and Arnold Chandler
Glenn Johnson, Angel Torres, Samir Gambhir, Mary McGirl, Julie Nielsen, Jason Reece, Rebecca Reno, Denis Rhoden Jr., Christy Rogers, Angela Stanley and Arnold Chandler
