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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

These are the three commercial kitchens that help support food businesses, a retail incubator that offers a storefront called Casa Qui 2 (or “House of Quality”) for Latinx entrepreneurs to sell locally made products, and two farmers market locations to support local producers. Both immigrated to Oregon from Mexico.

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

1 This citizen activism prompted government action to honor the sacrifice. Often, groups of residents would come together to cooperatively seek and share work in sectors like construction and housecleaning or to market locally produced goods. Government support was required. 2 Self-sufficiency enterprises predated the crisis.