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Directories & Databases

Links to a variety of directories listing social/solidarity economy initiatives & projects. Look here to find projects in your area!

• The Data Commons Project (www.find.coop)
• The Regional Index of Cooperation (REGINA)
• The NASCO Guide (Group Equity Co-ops)
• .Coop Directory (links to .coop websites)
• Co-op Month Directory of Cooperatives (NCBA)
• Complimentary Currency Database
• Wiser Earth
• Bike Collective Directory
• Coop Directory (Food Co-ops)
• Cooperative Grocer Directory (Food Co-ops)
• National Co-op Directory (Food Co-ops)
• The Co-op Online Directory (UK)
• Catalytic Communities Global Solutions Database

   

Solidarity Economy

Organized efforts to build cross-sector alliances among solidarity economy enterprises and to promote the solidarity economy framework.

• Definitions
• Solidarity Economy Networks
• Solidarity Economy Support Organizations

  Groups working to promote and support the solidarity economy concept & strategy

• Solidarity Economy Resources & Writings

  Links to articles and other link pages.

Cooperatives & Cooperative Economics

Links to member/owner-controlled economic initiatives and groups working to advance a vision of a democratic economy of cooperation and community-control.

• About Cooperatives & Collectives
• Cooperative Support Organizations (Co-ops of all types)

  These organizations exist to help people start new cooperatives and to help existing cooperatives increase their sustainability & success.

• Worker Cooperatives

   

Employee Ownership

Links to information about employee-owned business, including ESOPs (Employee Stock Ownership Plans)

• Employee & Worker Ownership Resources
• Employee Ownership Resources & Links
• National Center for Employee Ownership
• The Ohio Employee Ownership Center
• Vermont Center for Employee Ownership

   

Ethical Purchasing

Enacting solidarity values through consumer practices; building "solidarity markets."

• Local Harvest
• Shop Union Made
• The Working World

   

Public Policy & Governance

Ideas, strategies and organizations working in the realm of policy and governance. Creating "solidarity states" and "solidarity governance."

• The New Rules Project (Institute for Local Self-Reliance)

   

"Solidarity Accounting"

Developing new, holistic ways of measuring and valuing social, economic and ecological life.

• New Economics Foundation - "New Ways of Measuring"
• Social Audit Network

   

Economic Vision & Theory

Visions, models and theories toward just, democratic, and ecological economies & societies

• Abolish Human Rentals
• Altruistic Economics
• America Beyond Capitalism
• Appropriate Economics
• Community Economies Project
• Economic Security For All

  A strategic vision for ending poverty and developing a democratic, decentralized economy

• Globalization & Local Economics
• Participatory Economics
• Project for a Participatory Society
• Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies

  Online book by Richard Douthwaite

Gift Economy

• Freecycle

   

Community Currency & Barter

Alternative forms of community-based exchange, including community currencies and barter networks.

• Cascadia Hour Exchange
• Complimentary Currency Resource Center
• Transaction.net

   

The Commons

• Ideas & Defense of the Commons
• Commons In Action

   

Blogs

Solidarity and cooperation in the blogosphere

• A House Without Walls
• Building the Third Way: Economic Democracy for the New Millenium
• Co-Create 26
• Gaian Economics
• Mutualist Blog: Free-Market Anti-Capitalism
• Trust Is the Only Currency
• Worker Coops and Unions: Working Together
• Worker's Paradise