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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? Another team of Latinx business owners in our community are Alma Hernández and her husband Christian Morales.

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Scaling Deep, Not Up: Lessons from Detroit

NonProfit Quarterly

Leaders in many places facing economic decline—be they post-industrial cities in the Rust Belt or depleted communities in former coal mining towns—are increasingly looking to entrepreneurship as a means of revitalization. Neighborhood book clubs were repurposed as platforms with which to educate pet owners.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

But to build cooperative intelligence, cooperative education needs to start at a much earlier age. Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. In Dare the School Build a New Social Order? ,