The Healthcare Anchor Network launches as an independent organization
As a new organization, HAN looks forward to deepening its impact in the healthcare sector and reaching a critical mass of health systems adopting as an institutional priority improving community health and well-being.
Family wealth building isn’t enough: We must pursue community wealth building
To address growing wealth inequality, and in particular the racial wealth gap, we must build wealth in our communities. Community wealth building is a new way of thinking about economic development, poverty alleviation, and wealth creation and accumulation.
Revisiting community control of land and housing in the wake of COVID-19
As our housing crisis worsens during the COVID-19 pandemic, we urgently need new approaches and institutions that center permanent affordability, community ownership and control, and the long-term goal of decommodification.
Constructing the Democratic Public Bank: A governance proposal for Los Angeles
How we are building the democratic economy....
Theory and policy for a next system
Catalyzing a movement to build community wealth
Climate justice and energy democracy
Next-generation enterprise and systemic design
Racial equity and the democratic economy
Leveraging anchor institutions
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Health innovation policy for the people
The way we promote innovation in the healthcare sector does not meet the real needs of people for equitable access to affordable treatments. There is a better way that takes into account the knowledge and needs of marginalized people.
A “new direction”: Rediscovering community wealth building in an age of gentrification
New economy advocates must pivot in a new direction that blends place and the democratic economy into a holistic solution that sustains and preserves community over the individual. Ironically, this “new direction” borrows from an idea nearly 50 years old, originating in a tumultuous era of Black activism.
The Democracy Collaborative joins House Progressives in urging President Biden to end fossil fuel expansion
Letter calls on President Biden to “declare a climate emergency” and live up to his campaign promises to protect our environment and mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis.
