A Great Trump Crash?
Everywhere we look there are new tripwires being laid, actions by the Trump Administration that could easily serve as the proximate cause or trigger of a financial crisis that could cause a chain reaction ending in a great crash.
To Be or Not to Be a Nonprofit? Or Wait: Public Benefit Corporation
We have lived so long with the dominant model of capital ownership that it’s hard to imagine any other model actually working at scale in the world of rough-and-tumble capitalism. Can OpenAI show the way?
A Democratic Future Requires a Democratic Economy
In a world of ever growing inequality, our Distinguished Senior Fellow, Marjorie Kelly, commends the Roosevelt Institute on the recent publication of a collection of essays on economic democracy.
Trump and the Crisis: System Change from the Right?
We are just past Trump’s First Hundred Days, and so are in a position to draw some firm conclusions about the nature of this second Trump Administration – and the challenges and dangers we are now facing.
Courage is key to unlock a democratic economy in Northern Virginia
This year’s DNOVA Summit considered the question: “What shall we do now to create a more democratic economy in Northern Virginia in the future?" Our CEO, Stephanie McHenry, spoke at the plenary session.
Plaid Cymru offers Community Wealth Building plan for Wales
Making Wales Work by Plaid Cymru contains both a deep political economy analysis of Welsh economic underperformance and a roadmap of practical policies to transform Wales – with Community Wealth Building at their heart.
Community Wealth Building to Economic System Change
The Democracy Collaborative participated in the recent online convergence towards the Next System Teach-Ins in November 2025. Our session covered Community Wealth Building as a method for delivering local economic system change.
Black philanthropists remember: What we need is system change
Our CEO, Stephanie McHenry, attended the ABFE Harambee Annual Conference of Black philanthropy professionals. These are some of her thoughts.
Community Wealth Building meets the power of trade unionism
A decade ago CWB was on the fringes of mainstream economic thought. Now, a burgeoning interest offers real hope for a different kind of economy. And trade unions have a key role to play.
Making change today: A profile of TDC CEO Stephanie McHenry
Stephanie McHenry is CEO of The Democracy Collaborative. She shared who she is, her leadership role, and her vision — which includes figuring out how to make systemic change happen right now.
A World First: Community Wealth Building legislation in Scotland
A Community Wealth Building Bill has been published by the Scottish government, making it the first piece of national CWB legislation anywhere in the world.
Creating a just economy through shared ownership
Twenty-five years ago, when The Democracy Collaborative was formed, we set about the work of political-economic system change.
Putting economic democracy into practice
Community Wealth Building offers the first steps toward a widespread redistribution of wealth and power in our economy.
Introducing ‘Tracking the Crisis’
A tool to avoid overwhelm and reactivity to the constant outrage-manufacturing machine in a time of debilitating political turbulence and change.
The contours of our systemic crisis
As the first Next System Speaker of 2025, Joe Guinan spoke to George Mason University’s Next System Studies class about what TDC’s 2024 Index of Systemic Trends tells us about the present crisis in America.
Energy sector’s ‘Wind Rush’ risks replicating existing patterns of financialized extraction
Incorporating Community Wealth Building approaches into the development of the renewable energy economy in Shetland.
Shock and Awe: Trump’s First Hundred Days
Only a few days in, and already we can see the broad shape of what Trump’s Second Term will bring — a radical effort to reshape and repurpose the administrative state.
Responses to Webinar Questions
In October we ran a webinar looking at the Transformative and Growing Potential of Community Wealth Building. At that event we generated a range of questions, not all of which could be answered during the Webinar. We now answer them.
Climate: Facing reality and fighting back in 2025
There is a plausible climate agenda for the years ahead, even as our national politics will be dominated by President-elect Donald Trump and his frightening plans.
New hope in an old fight
Just after a disaster election, the theme of the Yale Center for Environmental Justice conference,,“environmental joy,” at first seemed incongruous. But the diverse, young, and ready-to-fight group assembled kept returning to the idea that joy could be found in a determined struggle for people and planet.