cooperatives
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Sign-on Letter to Speaker Carl E. Heastie, Re: Request to Include $25 Million for the NYS CDFI Fund in the Final Budget
A diverse group of 59 organizations from throughout New York State request a $25 million appropriation to fund the New York State Community Development Financial Institution Fund (NYS CDFI Fund).
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NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs: DCA Releases Report on the Ways Neighborhoods Influence Residents’ Financial Health
NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs, Press Release – The report is the product of a year-long collaboration between DCA and a team led by New Economy Project to define neighborhood financial health and offer a set of goals and indicators for a financially healthy neighborhood.
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Let’s Be Real Episode 5: A Vision for Financial Justice in New York
This episode, we focus on the payday lending industry’s most recent attempt to legalize high-cost predatory lending in New York. We feature a conversation with New York State Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou about the importance of standing up for strong consumer protections as a matter of racial and economic justice. We also sit down with New…
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Yes! Magazine: NYC’s Credit Unions Give Mom-and-Pop Stores a Chance, Despite Gentrification
Yes! Magazine — “It’s kind of fundamental to their mission,” says Deyanira Del Rio at New Economy Project, an organization that seeks to build democratic local economies by supporting a range of cooperative enterprises. “Not just helping people tap into financial services…but creating opportunities to purchase owned homes and have real economic roots [in the…
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U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives: New York City Invests In Worker Cooperatives
US Federation of Worker Cooperatives — On Thursday, June 26th the New York City Council will vote to approve the city’s annual budget, which contains a $1.2 million initiative to fund the development of worker cooperatives.
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Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC – Summary Report
Joint report summarizing opportunities to create a resource and advocacy hub to support cooperative economics in NYC. New Economy Project issued the report with Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives, SolidarityNYC, and The Working World.
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YES! Magazine: Commonomics: How to Build Local Economies Strong Enough for Everyone
YES! Magazine — Chokwe Lumumba was an unlikely candidate for high office in Mississippi. But last June, the former Black Nationalist and one-time attorney to Tupac Shakur was elected Mayor of Jackson. He’s now in hot pursuit, not of big box stores or the next silver bullet solution to what ails the state’s capital city.…