New Economy Project provides community education on financial justice, solidarity economics, and other topics. Our workshops and curricula are participatory, connecting people’s lived experiences in NYC with broader systemic forces, and serve as springboards for organizing and advocacy. We conduct workshops in partnership with community-based organizations, tailoring sessions to meet the needs of different participants.
Contact us to learn more or to request a workshop for your staff or community members.
Financial Justice / Know Your Rights
New Economy Project conducts community know-your-rights education — in English, Spanish and other languages — on a range of financial justice topics, including fair banking access, avoiding predatory lending, debt collection, credit reports, and more. Our curriculum is geared to low-income, immigrant, and older New Yorkers — alerting them to their rights and options, and connecting them to our free financial justice hotline and other resources for further assistance.
We also provide capacity building training for community groups and advocates. These training sessions equip organizations to train community members on financial justice matters and refer people to legal and other support.
Cooperative Economics…and More
New Economy Project’s core curriculum, Building a New Economy: A People’s Guide, provides a framework for understanding our current economy and charting a path to transformative solutions that advance racial equity and democratic community control.
Topics include wealth and income inequality, bank redlining, and connections between climate, housing, and economic injustice. Participants explore strategies — including worker and financial cooperatives, community land trusts, and public banking — to democratize the economy and build lasting community wealth.
