
Asheville Writers in the Schools & Community: Arts-based Participatory Budgeting
AWITSC’s mission is to ignite social change through the power of the arts, culture, restorative self expression, and community storytelling. They’re using arts-based community storytelling to ask local youth “How would you spend a million dollars?” This process is meant to build momentum and infrastructure for a participatory budgeting process in Asheville.

Boston Center for Community Ownership: Bilingual Cooperative Peer Training Platform
BCCO provides organizing support for worker-owned cooperatives started by low income people — primarily immigrants, people of color, and those with barriers to employment. BCCO's new bilingual peer training platform will allow worker co-ops to train each other and access training from professional co-op support organizations at a discounted rate.

Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity: Community Cooperative Institute
CCDS provides educational, technical and organizational support to groups that want to explore the creation of worker-owned cooperatives in East Boston. CCDS’s Cooperative Institute program contributes to the cooperative movement ecosystem by supporting the Latin@ immigrant community while transforming individuals, organizations, and neighborhoods through participatory processes and popular education in Spanish.

Cooperative Economic Alliance of NYC: Participatory Facilitation Training
The Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC (CEANYC) strengthens and expands community-led, democratically-controlled initiatives — from worker, financial and consumer co-ops to community land trusts and gardens, mutual housing, and low-income housing co-ops. To learn to better facilitate participatory spaces, they’ll work with Training for Change to bring their Training for Social Action Trainers to NYC for our Board, peer educators, staff, donor organizers, and member leaders.

Editorial Casa Cuna: La Juntilla Literature and Arts Festival
Editorial Casa Cuna is an independent artistic project, based in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. This project is conceived as an alternative method for emerging artists that are womxn, poor, black and / or from LGBTTQIAP+ communities to create income with their art. They focus on creating events and providing resources to obtain greater representation of marginalized minorities in the contemporary art scene of Puerto Rico. La Juntilla, their first Art and Literature Festival, will celebrate LGBTQ+, queer, black, anarchist, and feminist artists from Puerto Rico and give them a non-censored/ non-discriminating space to share their work.

Firelands Washington: Green New Deal Assemblies
Firelands WA builds multiracial working-class power in rural and small-town Timber Country in Washington State to fight for a regenerative economy through the vehicle of a just Green New Deal. They are building an organization driven by working-class and poor communities across race directly impacted by the daily crises of poverty and climate change. They spent the summer listening, and are launching our growth phase with a series of forums and a movement school in the Fall.

Food for the Spirit: Frontline Youth Leadership Retreat
Food for the Spirit is an organization dedicated to racial healing towards ecological justice and equitable food systems. Using creative facilitation, they craft spaces for people to learn from each other and step into leadership roles honoring their unique talents, perspectives, and abilities. The vision for Food for the Spirit's 2020 Youth Leadership Retreat is to support participating youth leaders and adult mentors in Buffalo, NY in planning and facilitating future workshops and trainings in their own communities.

Groundwork Buffalo: Worker-Owned Urban Farming Coop
Groundwork Buffalo will partner with Gro-Operative to teach youth and young adults in the City of Buffalo how to produce fresh herbs, greens and fish year-round as a worker-owned vertical farming cooperative. They will maximize production and minimize waste by using cutting-edge technology and innovative practices. By operating as a worker-owned company they will demonstrate the contribution of worker cooperatives to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.

Kola Nut Collaborative: Cooperation for Liberation Study Group
The Kola Nut Collaborative is Chicago-based time and skills service exchange which presently serves as an incubator and point of intersection for several actors throughout Chicago's solidarity economy. Cooperation 4 Liberation is an intentional gathering space to study the Black radical tradition of cooperative and solidarity economic practice and harvest contemporary strategies for countering economic marginalization as resistance and liberation.

Post Growth Institute: New Economy Offers and Needs Market
PGI seeks to accelerate the world’s shift to an economy that thrives within ecological limits, and promote the importance of monetary circulation for economic regeneration, social justice, and ecological sustainability. The online Offers and Needs Market is a 90-minute meeting to efficiently match knowledge, skills, resources, and needs of new economy organizations.

New Economy Works West Virginia: Hire Cooperative Developer & Community Organizer
New Economy Works West Virginia (NEW WV) provides business development resources and financing for groups forming worker or producer cooperatives. NEW WV is developing a cooperative culture in the Westside community of Charleston, WV, to carry out New Economy projects that will allow the community to take charge of revitalization efforts and self-determine their future.

Sol2Soul Freedom Project: Developing Arts and Agricultural Co-op
The Sol2Soul Freedom Project is a community based Arts & Agricultural Cooperative in Puerto Rico, doing liberation work rooted in long-term agricultural economic sustainability, land reclamation, and arts activism. This project includes working with three local schools to develop a youth food sovereignty curriculum, developing an agricultural production site, and community land trust planning.

Solidarity Economy St Louis: Youth Council Development
Solidarity Economy St. Louis is a network of groups and individuals striving to build and grow a solidarity economy that embodies the values of justice, sustainability, self-determination, and cooperation. This project is to develop a Youth Council, which will provide space for young people under 25 to direct and lead their work, bring more youth into their community, and learn from each other and mentors in whatever areas they are interested in, while being compensated accordingly.

Southeast Center for Cooperative Development: Hire Non-Extractive Loan Coordinator
The mission of the Southeast Center for Cooperative Development is to increase economic opportunities and benefits by creating and strengthening cooperative businesses and networks that grow an equitable economy. They give priority to developing the power and capacity of low-income, minority individuals, and underserved areas of Metro Nashville and beyond. They seek to create a loan coordinator position for a non-extractive loan fund that supports worker co-op start-ups with formerly incarcerated women, low-income individuals, people of color, youth, immigrants and support for a worker cooperative and conversion conference in Nashville, TN.

Wild Fig Bookstore: Supplies & Training for Cooperative Bookstore
Wild Fig Books & Coffee is Kentucky's first and only Black-owned bookstore. Currently undergoing conversion to a worker cooperative, the Fig is a radical bookstore, coffee shop, and community event space that centers holding space for grassroots cultural organizing and healing justice that is a critical component of solidifying and strengthening the local solidarity economy movement.














