NEC 2014 Report

ANNUAL REVIEW 2014

“As we struggle with the profound injustices and consequences of the old economy, NEC is leading the way forward, lifting up inspiring models of change, while building the solidarity across organizations and movements that we need to get there.” —STACY MITCHELL Institute for Local Self-Reliance

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OUR VISION At the New Economy Coalition, Coaliti on, we’re driven by a belief that th at all our struggles—for racial, economic, and climate justice; for true democratic governance and community ownership; for prosperity rooted in interdependence with the earth’s natural systems—are deeply interconnected. Rising to the challenge of building a better world demands that we fundamentally transform our economic and political systems. We We must imagine and create a future where capital capital (wealth and the means of creating it) is a tool of the people, not the other way around. What we need is a new system—a new economy — that meets human needs, needs, enhances the quality of life, and allows us to live in balance with nature. Far from a dream, this new economy is bursting forth through the cracks of the current system as people experiment with new forms of business, governance, and culture that give life to the claim that another world is possible.

OUR MISSION The New Economy Coalition (NEC) is a network of organizations imagining and building a future where people, communities, communities, and ecosystems thrive. Together, we are creating deep change in our economy and politics—placing power in the hands of people and uprooting legacies of harm—so that a fundamentally new system can take root. Our network advances change in three main ways: We convene and connect connect leaders 1. We to tackle common challenges in their work to build a new economy. and 2. We amplify stories, tools, and analysis, weaving a collective new economy narrative that can build shared identity, shift culture and policy, and promote a clear vision of the next system. 3. We lift up the work of communi-

ties on the frontlines of interrelated economic and ecological crises who are organizing for transformative change, through right relationships and direct support.

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NEW ECONOMY COALITION

LAUNCHING THE NEW ECONOMY COALITION A Letter from the Co-chairs Co-chairs

This is a moment of great promise and opportunity. In the midst of crisis, people are rising up and demanding something different. All around us, innovators innovators and organizers are building community-owned enterprises, reclaiming the commons, and democratizing finance— finding new ways to share resources, measure success, and meet human needs on a finite planet. They are also in the streets, from New York and Ferguson, to Athens and Madrid, building power to resist and displace unjust systems. A movement is emerging that could could change our society and the world. The New Economy Coalition (NEC) is uniquely poised to support that movement with the kind of visionary thinking and action that can move us closer to a new economy.

In just 18 months, the coalition has grown to more than 100 member organizations from across the US and Canada. As NEC coalesces into a thriving thriving network, we are creating creating new opportunities for collective action and strategic breakthroughs. Through convenings like CommonBound and New Economy Week, we connect leaders from different regions and areas of work, deepening relationships and helping us all tackle common challenges. We We create spaces where big, bold ideas can emerge and grow, facilitating the collective development of a vision for a new economic system. While we carve out spaces spaces for this growing movement movement to blossom, we also need to sustain the important organizing that is already happening. NEC provides direct support for work on the frontlines of ecological and economic crises. Our regranting program has provided resources and support, including more than $50,000 in microgrants, to young people piloting new economy projects in their communities.

“What’s the cost of continuing with the old economy? econ omy? Expanding inequality, rising inequity by race and gender, and a planet in growing distress. These are big problems and they demand a movement-scale response. Thankfully the New Economy Coalition exists to do exactly this — bring us all together to focus our collective efforts on a just transition toward a new economy.” —JAMES MUMM

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Over the past year, we’ve engaged deeply with questions about what it means to center communities most impacted by centuries of structural oppression, many of whom have long been at the forefront of building new economies. Through our Racial and Economic Justice Initiative, we developed new organizational relationships, attended convenings, and hosted over 25 trainings and public conversations on the role of race and class in the new economy movement. As we reflect on all that happened happened this year, we’re also also excited about what 2015 holds. With your support, NEC will continue to build strength as a network and movement-support organization with an emerging vision for a just, resilient, and democratic future. Together, Together, we can imagine and create a new economy where people, communities, and ecosystems thrive. Sincerely,

Aaron Tanaka Tanaka and Leah Hunt-Hendrix Co-chairs of the Board of Directors, New Economy Coalition

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NEC MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS (as of March 1, 2015. For the most up-to-date list of member organizations, visit newconomy.n et/members)

1WORKER1VOTE

COOPERATIVE FUND OF NEW ENGLAND

350.ORG

CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL

ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND PROSPERITY

COWORKER.ORG

AMERICAN INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ALLIANCE

CROATAN INSTITUTE

AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS COUNCIL

CUTTING EDGE CAPITAL

ANTI-OPPRESSION RESOURCE AND TRAINING ALLIANCE (AORTA)

DEMAND PROGRESS

ASSOCIATION ASSOCIA TION FOR ENTERPRISE OPPORTUNITY

THE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE

B LAB

DEMOS

BALDWIN BROTHERS INC.

DOMINI SOCIAL INVESTMENTS

THE BOARD OF CHANGE

DONELLA MEADOWS INSTITUTE

BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE

EARTH ACTION

BRING IT LOCAL

EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE

BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR LOCAL LIVING ECONOMIES (BALLE)

ECONOMISTS FOR EQUITY AND ENVIRONMENT

CAMAS PARTNERS

ECOTRUST

CANADIAN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

EQUAL EXCHANGE

CANADIAN WORKER CO-OP FEDERATION

THE EQUITY TRUST

THE CAPITAL INSTITUTE

FOOD FIRST

CARING ECONOMY CAMP CAMPAIGN AIGN

FOUNDATION EARTH

THE CARROT PROJECT

FREELANCERS UNION

CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN DREAM

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH

CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY

FUND FOR DEMOCRA DEMOCRATIC TIC COMMUNITIES

CENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION

THE GARDEN PROJECT

CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE STEADY STATE ECONOMY

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY

CENTER ON WISCONSIN STRATEGY

GLOBAL WELLBEING INSTITUTE

CLASS ACTION

GRAND ASPIRATIONS

COOPERATIVE FOOD EMPOWERMENT DIRECTIVE (COFED)

GREENAMERICA

COMMUNITY BUILDERS OF LONG ISLAND

GREEN FOR ALL

COMMUNITY PURCHASING ALLIANCE

GREEN MAP SYSTEM

COMMUNITY SOURCED CAPITAL

GROUNDSWELL

COMPRESSION INSTITUTE

GUND INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICA ECOLOGICAL L ECONOMICS

CONCORD CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK

THE HAPPATHON PROJECT

CONSERVATION CONSERVA TION LAW FOUNDATION

HOURWORLD


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NEC’s visionary members are key to achieving our shared vision. Our membership, which increased by over 40% in 2014, includes an exciting range of groups from across the US and Canada engaged in every facet of building the New Economy, from theorizing, th eorizing, to organizing and building community wealth. We’re We’re grateful for their their continued engagement and and look forward to deeper deeper collaboration in 2015. 2015. INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY

PUBLIC BANKING INSTITUTE

INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE

PUBLIC WORKS

INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES

REAL FOOD CHALLENGE

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ECOLOGY AND CULTURE

REDESIGN READING

IOBY

RESPONSIBLE ENDOWMENTS COALITION

JAMAICA PLAIN NEW ECONOMY TRANSITION

RSF SOCIAL FINANCE

LABOR NETWORK FORW SUSTAINABILITY

SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS (SCNE)

THE LIBERTY TREE FOUNDATION

SECOND NATURE

LIVING ECONOMIES FORUM

SELF-HELP CREDIT UNION / SELF-HELP FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

LOCAL ENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE FUND THE MARION INSTITUTE MISSOURIANS ORGANIZING FOR REFORM & EMPOWERMENT (MORE)

SENIOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP WORKS SHAREABLE SLOW MONEY

MOVE TO AMEND

SMALL PLANET INSTITUTE

MOVEMENT GENERATION JUSTICE AND ECOLOGY PROJECT

SOUL OF THE NEXT ECONOMY

NATIONAL PEOPLE’S ACTION

THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN COMPANY

NATIONAL PRIORITIES PROJECT

SOSTENICA

NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS

SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION RESEARCH

NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION (NEF)

AND ACTION INITIATIVE (SCORAI)

NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES LAW CENTER

NORTH AMERICAN STUDENTS OF COOPERATION

SUSTAINABLE ENDOWMENTS INSTITUTE

NORTHWEST ATLANTIC MARINE ALLIANCE

TAKE BACK YOUR TIME

NUCLEAR INFORMATION INFORMATION & RESOURCE SERVICE

TELLUS INSTITUTE

ONE EARTH

THE THOMAS MERTON CENTER

OWNERSHIP ASSOCIATES

TIMEBANKS USA

PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PROJECT

TRANSITION TOWN PETERBOROUGH

PATAGONIA

TRANSITION US

PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND

TRILLIUM ASSET MANAGEMENT

PEERS

UNITED STUDENTS FOR FA FAIR IR TRADE

PHILADELPHIA AREA COOPERATIVE ALLIANCE

US FEDERATION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES

POLICYLINK

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST COMMUNITY COOPERATIVES

POST CARBON INSTITUTE

VERMONTERS FOR A NEW ECONOMY

POST GROWTH INSTITUTE

WORCESTER ROOTS PROJECT

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BUILDING OUR NETWORK IN SERVICE OF A MOVEMENT 2014 was the year NEC came alive as a coalition. Together we took major steps toward becoming a network that can nurture, challenge, and take the risks necessary to build a new economy. In June, NEC held its inaugural member meeting. Leaders from fifty-six allied organizations working on the leading edge of this movement came together to discuss vision and strategy, elect new board members, and identify the kinds of resources we could create to better serve the movement. NEC staff took their input to heart. Our members asked for help collaborating around big moments, so we hosted strategic conversations in advance of the People’s Climate March and the release of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything . They told us they wanted to have deeper conversations about race, local organizing, just transition, story-telling, and movementbuilding, so we created opportunities to do so through New Economy Week Week and ongoing forums online and in-person. They asked for more robust online infrastructure, so we’re building it, starting with our website which will be re-launching in the spring of 2015. The work we did in 2014 laid the groundwork for much deeper engagement between our members in the year ahead. Whether it’s amplifying each others’ stories, swapping best practices, or having tough conversations about narrative and strategy, the New Economy Coalition is emerging as a trusted hub for movement-level thinking and action.

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“The New Economy Coalition is the connective tissue among those who are working to create a sustainable future future for the planet and its people. NEC helps build relationships and fosters the kind of collaboration that will move us toward a common vision and a strategy to get us there.” —JOE UEHLEIN Labor Network for Sustainability

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NEW ECONOMY WEEK 2014 New Economy Week is a public exploration of creative resistance—an opportunity to shine a light on the thousands upon thousands of efforts that everyday people are making right now to bring forth a new kind of economy. In its second year, New Economy Week 2014 created a space for community leaders across the US and Canada to share their work with a broader public. Our online map featured 121 events in 23 states and 7 Canadian provinces, nearly 50% more than 2013! The week also provided a platform to discuss some of the big questions that stand between us and a new economy. We put forward five key questions that provided framing for each day and helped our members to talk about their work in the context of the broader struggle for social and environmental justice. The questions were: were:

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How can we honor and learn from the rich histories of communities building New Economy institutions on the frontlines of fights for racial, economic, environmental justice?

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How can we catalyze public conversa conversation tion about the need for systemic change and the viability of economic alternatives that put people and the planet first?

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How can we connect and learn from successful experiments, pilot projects, and campaigns to build broad-based power power and effect deep transformation at scale?

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How do we transition to a renewable economy without leaving the workers, young people, and communities most impacted by extractive industries behind?

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How can we support neighborhoods, cities, towns, and regions as the fertile ground for the kind of economy we need?

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In partnership with YES! Magazine, we put out a call for written responses to the questions and organized organized 3 virtual panel discussions. were featured on the YES! website 11 of the written responses were

25 more were published on our blog

Read them all, watch the panels, and explore the map of events at neweconomyweek.org neweconomyweek.org

“I’m honored to have been elected by NEC’s membership to serve on our Board of Directors. NEC plays a critical role at a pivotal time; we’re building b uilding the foundation for a longterm national movement to transform the economy as a s we know it.” —AARON TANAKA Boston Impact Initiative

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SUPPORTING YOUNG LEADERS ORGANIZING FOR A NEW ECONOMY In the second year of NEC’s Youth and Student Regranting Program, we disbursed more than $50,000 to young people imagining and building a new economy. We made twice the number of grants as we did in 2013, supporting more than 30 projects, campaigns, and convenings across the US and Canada, including: DIVESTMENT STUDENT NETWORK’S “FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT CONVERGENCE”

300 students came together to discuss issues of climate justice, build organizing skills, connect with frontline organizers, organizers, form collab-orative strategies, and further develop the Divestment Student Network. SUMMER ORGANIZING PROGRAM IN BOSTON

Last summer, the Boston Center for Community Ownership, the City School’s Summer Leadership Program, and the Center for Economic Democracy put together an organizing program for 100 youth from low-income communities of color in Boston. This program

combined a curriculum focused on economic democracy and community ownership with the planning and development of a youth-led cooperative project.

In May 2015, we will bring past grantees together to strengthen their connections to one another and to help us evaluate and expand the program moving forward.

OUR POWER DETROIT

The relationships built through this program have established a strong foundation for youth and student engagement in all of NEC’s programmatic work, and for new collaborations to take root. In particular, our focus this year on supporting young people in communities on the frontlines of oppressive systems has been a critical component of our work to prioritize racial and economic justice, and has allowed allowed us to strengthen our network with new partners and allies.

Organized by the East Michigan Environmental Action Council and the Climate Justice Alliance, Our Power Detroit brought together 70 youth from cities across the country country working on racial, economic, and environmental justice issues. The convening focused on the Detroit Water Water Crisis and creative solutions solutions — like setting up the People’s Water Water Station and canvassing neighborhoods to do community education around the water shut-offs.

DIVEST/REINVEST Program staff have continued to play a key role in emerging efforts to run reinvestment campaigns, linking student divestment organizing with grassroots groups leading a just transition away from the extractive economy. In collaboration with the Climate Justice Alliance, 350.org, the Responsible Endowments Coalition, and the Divestment Student Network, program staff are working to support the development of cooperative financial vehicles, to develop regional partnerships for reinvestment, and to provide training and technical assistance to the fossil fuel divestment movement so that they can participate in this work. This is a critical movement effort that demonstrates the ways in which cross-sector and cross-movement alliances can catalyze the growth of new economic alternatives.

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NEC’S YOUTH AND STUDENT GRANT RECIPIENTS 2014 CoFED’s Cooperation Amongst Cooperatives Divestment Student Network’s Fossil Fuel Divestment Convergence CoFED’s Northeast Convergence Convergence Oakleaf Urban Homestead Local Inland Northwest Cooperative Cooperative

Bay Bucks/Transition SF’s Living the New Economy Conference Responsible Endowments Coalition’s: Philadelphia Reinvestment Training Training Sub/urban Justice and YMORE POWER San Francisco Participatory Budgeting St. Louis

Los Jardines Institute’s 4 Directions Intergenerational Youth Youth Exchange

Aynah

US Federation of Worker Worker Cooperatives Conference

United StudentS for Fair Trade

99Rise Occidental College

Grand Aspirations’s August Gathering

Riverwest Cooperative Alliance

Enlace: Prison Divestment

Center for Story-Based Strategy’s Advanced Training

US Department of Arts and Culture

CommonBound Scholarships

Full Circles Foundation Strong Camp

Our Power Detroit

U-Pass Campaign

Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment

Grassroots Ecology Project

The Boston Center for Community Ownership,

NASCO Institute 2014

The City School’s Summer Leadership Program, and the Center for Economic Democracy

Big 10 Real Food Challenge Worcester Roots

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SUPPORTING THE FRONTLINES CENTERING RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE Communities that face the most direct impacts of economic crisis are also among the best positioned to understand the nature of the problem, and are at the leading edge of devising innovative, workable solutions. These communities, which often have very limited access to resources, resources, must have a central leadership role in the movement for economic system change. NEC has prioritized racial, economic, and climate justice by lifting up the leadership of frontline communities while continuing to engage deeply deeply with a broader range of organizations who have tremendous knowledge, technical expertise, and resources to contribute to building the next system. In the spring of 2014 we launched our Racial and Economic Justice Program. The goal of the initiative was twofold: 1. To strengthen the understanding

among our coalition members of how race (and racism) and class (and classism) play a central role in our current economic system. 2. To develop the leadership of

communities at the frontlines of struggles for racial and economic justice within NEC’s network network and the movement at large. We We focused on building relationships with social justice leaders, learning from the work taking place in communities on the ground, conducting research on the impacts of race in

FRONT·LINE COM·MU·NI·TIES:

those most impacted by interrelated economic and ecological crises past, present, and future who are organizing for transformativ transformative e change—in particular particular,, communities of color and poor and marginalized communities of all races. 1.

various sectors of of the new economy movement, hosting over 25 conversations on race and class in the new economy, economy, and providing trainings on anti-racism and multi-racial organizing with various members of our coalition. In 2015, we aim to apply a racial and economic justice lens to all our programmatic work, including our regranting program, distributing targeted resources to communities of color and low wealth communities working on on new economy projects and campaigns. We will also continue to connect connect trainers, community organizers, and grassroots groups with others in our network, supporting frontline communities as they offer their perspective, expertise, and leadership in new economy spaces. We We recognize that this work cannot cannot happen without significant learning and development within NEC’s staff, board, and membership, and therefore will also continue to do intentional internal learning in 2015.

“NEC is the prime perch and meeting spot for activists, thinkers, and planners who want to engage and co-create the emerging new economy movement.” —Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies

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CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS Key areas of focus: environmental, food & climate justice; labor; poverty, poverty, resilience, and community wealth building; human rights; mass incarceration and the prison prison industrial complex. COMMONBOUND 2014

NEW ECONOMY WEEK 2014

A Just Transition: What Does It Look Like? How Do We Get There?

Scaling Power for a J ust Transition: Strategies to Catalyze

Care and the Economy: Rethinking Domestic Labor Closing the Racial Wealth Gap to Build an Equitable Economy Community Wealth Building and City Economic Development

the New Economy Honoring our Histories, Fighting for our Future: Learning From Communities on the Frontlines of a Just Transition Displacing Injustice, Embracing Community: Lessons from Local

Divesting from the Prison Industrial Complex

and Regional New Economy Organizing

Economic Democracy and Community Wealth in Boston

Fighting Inequality and Climate Change through Localizing Economies:

Fighting for Food: Building a Just and Equitable Food System Flexing Our Power: Movement Building for a Just Transition Inclusion and Economic Democracy: Lessons from the Worker Coop Movement The Living Wage Fight in Context: A Rebirth of Worker Agency? The Sharing Economy & Social Justice: Can Collaborative Consumption Advance Equity? Weaving Bonds, Moving Forward: People of Color Caucus What Color is the New Economy? Where is Everybody? Confronting Class and Buil ding

A Community Renaissance in Greensboro Just Transition and the Future of Economic Growth: Lessons from Appalachia We Can’t Talk About A New Economy Without Talking About Race: Race and the New Economy There’s Nothing New About the New Economy Survival, Struggle & Spiritual Healing: Creating Beloved Community in the Time of Ferguson Building a Movement for Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist, Multi-Racial Coalition Building for a New Economy (Training led by Chris Crass in Boston, MA)

an Inclusive Movement

KEY EVENTS ATTENDED AND COMMUNITIES VISITED: JACKSON JACK SON RISING NEW ECONOMIES CONFERENCE NATIONAL PEOPLES ACTION/NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE ORGANIZING SUMMIT CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE - OUR POWER CAMPAIGN FACING RACE: A NATIONAL CONFERENCE RACIAL CAPITALISM CONFERENCE @ CUNY PEOPLE’S CLIMATE JUSTICE CONVERGENCE FACILITATING RACIAL JUSTICE TRAINING FERGUSON OCTOBER: WEEKEND OF MOBILIZATION

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COMMONBOUND MOVING TOGETHER TOWARD A NEW ECONOMY In June 2014, CommonBound: Moving Together Toward a New Economy attracted attracted over 650 movement leaders, activists, representatives from dozens of NEC member organizations, practitioners, and newcomers from across the United States and Canada. Over three days, participants engaged in workshops, panels, panels, visual and performperformance art, caucuses, new economy tours of Boston, regional and sectoral breakouts, and plenary sessions — some of which were live broadcasts viewed by thousands around the world. For some, CommonBound was an entrypoint to the movement, providing tools, ideas, and networks that participants could bring home with them. For others, it was a critical moment for propelling existing work forward, and provided an opportunity to collaborate and connect local efforts to the broader movement for a new economy. We We strove to make this an an accessible gathering by providing scholarships to over half of the participants. The conference explored themes ranging from fossil fuel divestment to community reinvestment, from democratic ownership models to participatory budgeting, from economic curriculum reform to the cultural work of building a new economy— and much more. The full program, including videos of all plenary sessions, is available at CommonBound.org.

COMMONBOUND EXIT SURVEYS illustrate how the weekend

impacted participants’ connection with this work and each other:

86%

Identified or more strongly identified with new economy work.

80%

Identified opportunities to work with people from other sectors.

75%

Developed Developed connections with others engaged in new economy work in their regions and beyond. beyond.

“NEC’s CommonBound was the first conference I attended since graduating college... I came in assuming I was there to take in and look up at the myriad ideas that constitute the new economy constellation. What I came to realize while there, was that I have a voice in this movement too.” —HANNAH GOLD CommonBound Participant

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WHAT COMES NEXT

NEC is uniquely poised to catalyze visionary thinking and action for a new economy. By holding space for deep engagement with big ideas, weaving and amplifying our collective story, and offering direct support to the leading edges of our movements, NEC plays a critical role in helping us envision what the future can and should look like. Next year—with your help—we will continue to move forward forward as we build a network that can support a movement for system change.

NETWORK BUILDING AND MEMBER ENGAGEMENT

NEC’s network of member organizations is the beating heart of our work. In 2015, we will focus on deepening relationships among members, building a shared sense of identity and purpose, and explicitly engaging groups to work in solidarity with frontline communities. In May 2015, we will hold h old our second annual members meeting where we will elect new new NEC board members and and continue to co-create a long term strategic agenda. STORYTELLING STORY TELLING AND RESOURCE SHARING

Building a new economy requires us to tell new stories that can shift culture, create unity, and inspire people to think differently about what’s possible. Amplifying the work of NEC’s members and crafting a powerful new economy narrative is a priority, and we will be working closely with partners inside and outside the network to make it happen in 2015. We We will also collect and distribute distribute tools that can support support groups and individuals to become more effective in transforming their communities and the world. In the spring, we will re-launch our website to feature the latest new economy news, publications, and events from across the US and Canada. REGRANTING AND DIRECT MOVEME MOVEMENT NT SUPPORT

In the past two years we’ve learned how NEC can play an important role distributing resources to support new economy projects and campaigns on the ground. Informed by our experience, NEC’s regranting program will expand in 2015 to support a wider range of initiatives, continuing to support youth and students while also prioritizing work happening on the frontlines of economic and environmental struggle. We will be making grants through targeted interventions accompanied by deeper collaboration, networking, and direct support to our grantees. We We will also continue to keep our ears open for new opportunities to engage in movement conversations and

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DIRECTORS OF THE NEW ECONOMY CO COALITION ALITION

FARHAD EBRAHIMI

DAVID DA VID M. ABROMOWITZ

GAR ALPEROVITZ

Interim Director of the New Economy Coalition. Founder and Chair of the Chorus Foundation, which works for a just transition to a regenerative economy in the United States.

Chief Public Policy Officer at YouthBuild USA and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. David also continues as an affordable housing attorney at Goulston & Storrs.

Former Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and Co-Founder of The Democracy Collaborative. Collaborative.

HILDEGARDE HANNUM

LEAH HUNT-HEN HUNT-HENDRIX DRIX

RACHEL PL ATTUS

(Emerita) Member of the board of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and editor of the Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures. With a Ph.D. in the history of German language and literature, she was a teacher of German and is a prizewinning translator.

Director of Solidaire, a donor community dedicated to funding social movements. She recently completed her PhD at Princeton University and is currently writing a book on the concept of solidarity.

(2012-2014 Staff Representative) Representative) is a Director of Programs at the New Economy Coalition.

GUS SPETH

SARAH STRANAHAN

AARON TANAKA

Professor of Law at Vermont Law School, formerly Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Strategic Development Director at Free Speech for People, serves on the Board of the Stranahan Foundation.

Managing Director of the Boston Impact I nitiative, Co-Founder of the Center for Economic Democracy, and Co-Founder and previous Executive Director of the Boston Workers Alliance.

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JESSICA BRACKMAN

JOHN FULLERTON

NEVA GOODWIN

Former CEO of FPG International, a leading stock photography agency, now works in the area of social and environmental impact documentary film. She is the founder of the New Economy Film Festival which launched in New York City in 2013.

Founder and President of the Capital Institute and the principal of Level 3 Capital Advisors.

Co-Director of the Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University.

WILL RAAP

DEIRDRE SMITH

Founder and Chairman of Gardener’s Supply, an employeeowned family of companies known for its innovative business and socially responsible practices. Founder and Chairman of Intervale Center (VT) and Restoring Our Watershed (Costa Rica).

National Organizer at 350.org, building a grassroots global climate movement in over 188 countries.

STEWART WALLIS

ED WHITFIELD

Executive Director of the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in the UK. Stewart is a Trustee of the Overseas Development Institute and Vice-Chair for the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Values. He formerly served as International

Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director of the Fund for Democratic Communities, supporting community-based initiatives and institutions that foster authentic economic democracy.

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2014 FINANCIALS

2014 SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Foundations

$ 755,500

41%

$ 95,000

5%

Individual Supporters

$ 51,507

3%

Event sponsorships

$ 10,500

0.5%

Event registration

$ 101,797

5%

Major Gifts

Income carried over from 2013 TOTAL

$1,843,643

$ 829,339

45%

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2014 FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES PROGRAMMATIC 30%

Programs

$ 356,792

8%

Coalition Building

$ 97,784

9%

Communications

$ 114,232

19%

CommonBound Conference

$ 225,398

ADMINISTRATIVE ADMINISTRA TIVE & SUPPORT 21%

Administration

13%

Fundraising TOTAL

$1,217,246

$ 264,963

$ 158,077

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OUR SUPPORTERS OUR SUPPORTERS The New Economy Coalition gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the individuals and foundations who made our work possible in 2014. Contributions of $250 or more are listed here. We deeply appreciate our donors at all levels.

DONORS

David Abromowitz Gar Alperovitz Margaret Baldwin Michael Baldwin Maile Bay Joshua Boger Jessica Brackman Robin Chase Theo Yang Copley Anne Delaney Farhad Ebrahimi Jonathan Eddy John Fullerton Neva Goodwin Farha Joyce Haboucha Robert Hall Hildegarde Hannum John Hunting Charles and Angeliki Keil Fran Korten Richmond Mayo-Smith David Michaelis Ron Miller Rodney North Frank Phoenix Clare Pierson and Peter Humphrey Will Raap John Rosenblum Heather Ross Charles Sandmel and Barbara Simonetti June Sidman Keri Smith Gus Speth Sarah Stranahan

Edward Strohbehn Jr. Mary Timney Ariane van Buren Genevieve Vaughan Ed Whitfield Tim Wirth FOUNDATIONS

Cloud Mountain Foundation Hildegard Fund Roy A. Hunt Foundation Kindle Project New Visions Foundation NoVo Foundation Overbrook Foundation Swift Foundation Threshold Foundation Thriving Resilient Communities Funding Circle V. Kann Kann Rasmussen Foundation Foundation Vervane Vervane Foundation Foundation Wallace Wallace Global Fund Whitney Foundation COMMONBOUND SPONSORS

Compression Institute Cooperative Development Institute Cooperative Fund of New England First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC Green Century Funds National Cooperative Bank National Cooperative Business Association Pax World Management, LLC Small Planet Institute Friend Trillium Trillium Asset Management

NEW ECONOMY ECONOM Y COALITION STAFF STAFF A I S H A S H I L L I N G F O R D , Co-Director of Organizing A L I S M A R T , Development Director B E L I N D A R O D R I G U E Z , Organizer E L I F E G H A L I , Director of Communications and Online Organizing EMILY HARDT , Operations Director E M M A P U K A - B E A L S , Development Associate ESTEBAN KELLY , Staff Leadership Team Director M I K E S A N D M E L , Manager of Coalition

Engagement

R A C H E L P L A T T U S , Co-Director of Organizing R E N E P E R E Z , IT and Data Systems Coordinator R I C H A R D H I N E S , Operations Manager SACHIE HOPKIN S HAYAKAWA HAYAKAWA, Organizer

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