The Democracy Collaborative’s Marjorie Kelly argues, in an exclusive interview for Truthout, that a democratic economy is our only way out of a destructive system of wealth supremacy.

In an interview with Democracy Collaborative president Joe Guinan, Marjorie Kelly discusses her new book, “Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises.”

In the next month, we will be visiting and working with a range of organizations, cities, and localities. This activity speaks to the expansion of the CWB movement across the United States as we service some of the growing interest in and action on CWB

As climate catastrophe accelerates, we need to be clear - the problem lies with our current economic system, and its excesses of wealth and power

We’ve begun to talk about the crisis, even to act—but our response remains dangerously inadequate to the scale of the challenges ahead

As the White House makes a welcome announcement on Community Wealth Building and underserved communities, we ask: but what about the wealthy overserved, and an economic system that maintains fundamental racial and social injustices?

This new study on community wealth building(CWB) in Preston England illustrates the positive effects that this progressive local economic program has had on ill health and specifically, on mental health. 

Prescription drugs in the United States cost way too much, nearly double, in fact, what they cost in other wealthy nations. The pharmaceutical companies that make them, and that rake in the profits from their sale, argue that we must pay those prices in order to support the world class research required to develop the drugs. The newly published Public Pharmaceuticals: State Policy Kit, a collaboration of The Democracy Collaborative, the Democracy Policy Network, and T1International, offers solutions.

This new report holds out the prospect of a very different developmental path for Ireland, North and South—one capable of truly delivering for its people and communities.

Across the world Community Wealth Building(CWB) is growing. And through our global network and development activity, TDC is ready to assist and help administrations and locations in their development of CWB. So with a packed range of engagements, I recently undertook a 2 week advisory tour of Australia. I found a significant enthusiasm for CWB with some exciting activities taking place.

The Democracy Collaborative’s work is as essential today as it was when Gar Alperovitz and I founded it 22 years ago as an academic research center at the University of Maryland, College Park. Both Gar and I are immensely proud of TDC’s accomplishments and enthusiastic about its future as we turn the organization over to a new generation of brilliant, talented leaders who are poised and ready to take TDC into an exciting new phase of its work. We know that TDC’s brightest days are ahead.

I am excited about the future of TDC because we have strong, credible answers to the questions many are pondering: How can we operate the economy in a way that more people can equitably benefit from the wealth that is created? How can we effectively bring more voices and influence to bear by those who have been left out of decisions that impact the public good? I look forward to helping TDC answer those questions and enhancing the organization’s reach and impact in many ways.

Working with my colleague Stephanie McHenry, our new Chief Executive Officer, we will bring new energy and focus to TDC’s mission of political-economic institutional change. We want to see a new era of Community Wealth Building and democratic economy policy and strategy, to show that there are real alternatives, powerful answers that already work on the ground and can now be implemented at scale, here in the United States and worldwide.

Ten years ago what's become known as 'The Preston Model' got it's start with a learning exchange, a desire for radical change, and maybe even a few beers! Here, leader of the Preston City Council, Matthew Brown, reflects on what's gone into it, the hard work still to come, and the movement it's spurred in the UK.