NEC 2015 Report

ANNUAL REVIEW 2015

“The New Economy Coalition is helping deepen relationships between organizations and providing the broader alignment we w e need. We appreciate NEC’s leadership role in bringing organizations across the movement together.” —JACOB SWENSON-LENGYEL PEOPLE’S ACTION

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OUR MISSION The New Economy Coalition (NEC) is a network of organizations imagining and building a future where people, communities, and ecosystems thrive. Together, we are creating deep change in our economy and politics—placing power in the hands of people and uprooting legacies of harm—so that a fundamentally new system can take root. Our network advances change in three main ways: 1. We convene and connect leaders to

tackle common challenges in their work to build a new economy. 2. We amplify stories, tools, and

analysis, weaving a collective new economy narrative that can build shared identity, shift culture and policy, and promote a clear vision of the next system. 3. We lift up the work of communities

on the frontlines of interrelated economic and ecological crises who are organizing for transformative change, through right relationships and direct support.

OUR VISION At the New Economy Economy Coalition, we’re driven by a belief belief that all our struggles—for struggles—for racial, economic, and climate justice; for true democratic governance and community ownership; for prosperity rooted in interdependence with the earth’s natural systems—are deeply interconnected. Rising to the challenge of building a better world demands that we fundamentally transform our economic and political systems. We We must imagine and create create a future where capital (wealth and the means of creating it) is a tool of the people, not the other way around. What we need is a new system—a new economy—that meets human needs, enhances the quality of life, and allows us to live in balance with nature. Far from a dream, this new economy is bursting forth through the cracks of the current system as people experiment with new forms of business, governance, and culture that give life to the claim that another world is possible.

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NEW ECONOMY COALITION

A LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dear Change Agents, 2015 was an exciting year for us as we said goodbye to many people who moved on to new challenges and welcomed several several new people, including including me, to the staff staff and board. I joined New Economy Coalition at the end of May 2015, eager to connect my decades of leading businesses committed to improving human and planetary well-being with the increasingly important work work of strengthening movements for deep systemic change. Climate crisis, global network advances, perpetual war, digital connectedness—the opportunities and challenges facing humans have grown significantly in recent years. NEC is well positioned to support our members—over 140 organizations across numerous sectors and issues—in working more effectively through through increased collaboration, collaboration, easier access to tools and resources, and the creation of a more powerful collective voice. We We used 2015 to listen listen deeply to our members members through comprehensive interviews, revitalize and rebuild our staff, stabilize our funding, engage in a strategic planning process, coordinate New Economy Week, Week, and

begin planning a radically collaborative CommonBound conference, which will happen in July 2016. We are thankful to our our numerous supporters supporters who gave gave their time, goodwill, and resources to help us demonstrate that another world is possible. More and more, that other world is already here. In this report you will learn more about the powerful work of our board, staff, and members. Together, Together, we are working to replace the harmful roots of our intertwined struggles— for justice, equality, sustainability, community—with a new system that values all people and honors the earth. We believe that only by coming together will we succeed and thrive. We hope you will continue continue to walk with us on on the path to a better world.

Jonathan Rosenthal Executive Director

“People are stuck in the realm of tactics, fire fighting in their day jobs. People rarely have time to think about movement infrastructure, developing the skills around framing and most importantly the community. NEC is very well positioned to do this.” —DANIEL VOCKINS, NEON

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NEC MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS (As of April 1, 2016. For the most up-to-date up-to-da te list of member organization s, visit newconomy.net/membe rs)

1WORKER1VOTE.ORG

CROATAN INSTITUTE

350.ORG

CUTTING EDGE CAPITAL

AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS COUNCIL

DEMAND PROGRESS

ANTI-OPPRESSION RESOURCE AND TRAINING ALLIANCE (AORTA)

DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE

AYNAH

DEMOS

BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE

DONELLA MEADOWS INSTITUTE

B LAB

DREAM CORPS (INCLUDES GREEN FOR ALL)

BOARD OF CHANGE

EARTHACTION

BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE

EARTH CHARTER INTERNATIONAL

BOTTOM UP ECONOMY

EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE

BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR LOCAL LIVING ECONOMIES

ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY INSTITUTE

CANADIAN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

EQUAL EXCHANGE

CANADIAN WORKER CO-OP F EDERATION

EQUITY TRUST, INC.

CAPITAL INSTITUTE

FAIR WORLD PROJECT

CARING ECONOMY CAMPAIGN

FELLOWSHIP FOR INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY

CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN DREAM

FOOD FIRST

CENTER FOR EARTH ETHICS

FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT STUDENT NETWORK

CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY

FUND FOR DEMOCRA D EMOCRATIC TIC COMMUNITIES

CENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION

GLOBAL COMMUNITY INITIATIVES

CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE STEADY STATE ECONOMY

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE

CENTRE FOR LOCAL PROSPERITY

GRAND ASPIRATIONS

CITYSEED

GREEN AMERICA

CLASS ACTION

GREEN MAP SYSTEM

CODEPINK

GREENWAVE

COFED: THE COOPERATIVE FOOD EMPOWERMENT DIRECTIVE

GROUNDSWELL

COMMUNITY BUILDERS LONG ISLAND

GUND INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

COMMUNITY PURCHASING ALLIANCE COOPERATIVE

HOURWORLD COOPERATIVE

COMMUNITY SOURCED CAPITAL, SPC

INITIATIVE FOR EQUALITY (IFE)

COMMUNITY VENTURES

INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY

COMPRESSION INSTITUTE

INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE

CONCORD CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK

INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES

COOPERATIVE COOPERA TIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUT E

INTELLIGENT MISCHIEF

COOPERATIVE FUND OF NEW ENGLAND

IOBY (IN OUR BACK YARDS) YARDS)

CO-OP POWER

JAMAICA PLAIN NEW ECONOMY TRANSITION

COOPZONE DEVELOPERS’ NETWORK

JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS CENTER TO NURTURE

CORPORATE CORPORA TE ACCOUNT ACCOUNTABILITY ABILITY INTERNATIONAL COWORKER.ORG

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP LABOR NETWORK FOR SUSTAINABILITY

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NEC’s visionary members are key to achieving our shared goals. Our membership includes an exciting range of groups from across the US and Canada that are engaged in every facet of building the new economy: from theorizing to organizing to building community wealth. We’re We’re grateful for our members’ continued engagement and look forward to deeper collaboration going forward.

LIFEBRIDGE FOUNDA FOUNDATION TION

RETHINKING ECONOMICS

LINC FOODS

RETHINKING PROSPERITY

LIVING ECONOMIES FORUM

SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS

LOCAL CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE

SELF-HELP CREDIT UNION

LOCAL ENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE FUND (LEAF)

SHAREABLE

LOCAL FUTURES/ISEC

SLOW MONEY

MAYPOP MA YPOP COLLECTIVE FOR CLIMA CLIMATE TE AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE

SMALL PLANET INSTITUTE

MISSOURIANS ORGANIZING FOR REFORM AND EMPOWERMENT

SOLIDARITY ECONOMY DC

MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC D EVELOPMENT

SOLIDARITYNYC

MOVEMENT GENERATION: JUSTICE AND ECOLOGY PROJECT

SOLIDARITY RESEARCH CENTER

NATIONAL PRIORITIES PROJECT

SOSTENICA

NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS

SOUTH MOUNTAIN COMPANY, INC.

NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION (NEF)

SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS

NEW ECONOMY MARYLAND

SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION RESEARCH AND ACTION

NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND NORTH AMERICAN STUDENTS OF COOPERATION NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL NORTHWEST ATLANTIC MARINE ALLIANCE NUCLEAR INFORMATION AND RESOURCE SERVICE ONE EARTH OWNERSHIP ASSOCIATES, INC. PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PROJECT PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND PEOPLE’S ACTION PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING (PUSH BUFFALO) PHILADELPHIA AREA COOPERATIVE ALLIANCE POLICYLINK POST CARBON INSTITUTE POST GROWTH INSTITUTE PROJECT EQUITY PUBLIC BANKING INSTITUTE PUBLIC WORKS RAISE REAL FOOD CHALLENGE REAL PICKLES REDESIGN READING RESPONSIBLE ENDOWMENTS COALITION

INITIATIVE (SCORAI) SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES LAW CENTER SUSTAINABLE ENDOWMENTS INSTITUTE SUSTAINABLE WORLD INITIATIVE SUSTAINUS TAKE BACK YOUR TIME TELLUS INSTITUTE THE DEMOCRACY COLLABORA COLLABORATIVE TIVE THE THOMAS MERTON CENTER THE TOOLBOX FOR EDUCATION AND SOCIAL ACTION THE WORKING WORLD TIMEBANKS USA TRANSITION TOWN PETERBOROUGH TRANSITION US UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST COMMUNITY COOPERATIVES UNITED FOR A FAIR ECONOMY UPSTREAM U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CUL CULTURE TURE U.S. FEDERATION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES WE OWN IT WORCESTER ROOTS PROJECT YES! MAGAZINE YOUNG PEOPLES ACTION COALITION

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NEW ECONOMY WEEK 2015 In November, NEC organized organ ized New Economy Week 2015, 2015, a public pu blic conversation about the ideas that can transform society and build an economy where people and the planet matter. Over the course of the week, we put forward five pressin g challenges chal lenges that sta nd between us and tomorrow’s economy and invited NEC member organizations, community leaders, and researchers to respond to them. Each day of New Economy Week we published original content across online platforms—from interviews and stories in traditional publications to Twitter chats and live YouTube panels. We also put out a call for in-person events that grappled with these issues and highlighted work being done to build the new economy in communities across the world. Over the course of the week, 50 of these events took place across the US and Canada, a long with several exciting webinars and online panels, and there were over 40 written pieces from NEC members and allies!

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SPEAKING WITH ONE VOICE, TELLING A STORY THAT MOVES PEOPLE The more we can speak with one voice, the more effective and credible our message will become. By increasing the communications capacity of our members, NEC builds popular momentum for the ideas, institutions, and potential of the new economy movement. We We heard our members members express a need for broad broad alignment around the story of the new economy; in 2015 we responded by partnering with the Center for for Story-based Strategy to launch the Metanarrative Metanarrative Project. During the project, NEC staff and member organizations will work together to coalesce the new new economy movement’s movement’s various narratives into a clear, compelling framework that can be used by diverse organizations to inspire public support. Through messaging research, bold campaigns, and capacity-building trainings, the Metanarrative Project will help shift the dominant narratives standing in the way of transformative transformative economic and political change. During the project’s initial design phase last year, NEC staff inter viewed over 50 NEC members to better understand how different organizations tell the new economy story and to uncover the most promising opportunities for shared strategy. Over the next year, NEC will build build on this foundation foundation of research research to launch launch new programs and experimental initiatives in collaboration with our members.

“Iff people are talking climate action or urban poverty there needs to be a second beat “I of what an alternative looks like. NEC can be a switchboard, can make space to connect those two halves. It’s important to have space where people who are doing this work can check in with with each other, and that’s something NEC NEC has done well. It’s a space where people can see themselves as part of a larger movement. It’s concrete and creates a framework for thinking about collaboration and alignment.” —JOHN DUDA, THE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE

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NEC IN THE WORLD NEC’s members are a cross-section of some of the most dynamic new economy thinking and organizing happening throughout the US and Canada. Working on everything from transformative economic policy to innovative community wealth-building institutions, these organizations are at the leading edge of the toughest issues facing societies worldwide, from gaping inequality to ecological crisis. In St. Louis, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment were some of the first responders to be support organizers on the ground when Michael Brown was shot and killed in nearby Ferguson. Ferguson. Now MORE is making critical connections between police brutality, economic injustice, and the city’s 1 percent while working with residents residents to build up a thriving solidarity solidarity economy. During New Economy Week 2015, MORE hosted a community conversation, Building an Economy Where #BlackLivesMatter, #BlackLivesMatter, in St. Louis and worked with NEC to highlight highlight MORE’s work for for a national audience in YES! Magazine. PUSH Buffalo, a People’s Action affiliate, is showing a path to a clean energy future that puts people and the planet over corporate profits. With its 25-square-block Green Development Zone, PUSH is training workers in solar installation and insulation while pushing back gentrification on Buffalo’s West West Side. By working with PUSH and the rest of the Buffalo-based Crossroads

Collective on CommonBound 2016, NEC hopes to showcase this work for the new economy movement and for anyone looking for equity-driven solutions to the climate crisis. By highlighting its members’ stories, NEC weaves the countless living examples of the new economy—so often disparate and disconnected—into a narrative we’re too often told doesn’t exist: that not only are there alternatives to the way things are but there are people and communities actively building them. As debates on the future of work, work, technology’s impact impact on the economy, and energy transitions multiply, NEC offers systemic solutions to issues too often discussed in isolation. Rather than simply breaking up Wall Street banks, why not democratize them? Why only transition from dirty, extractive energy when we have the opportunity to bring utilities under public control? These solutions are the lifeblood of our members, and— as a coalition—NEC works to intervene in national and international conversations with a forward-facing vision for the economy we need. Matchmaking along critical intersections, convening vital and boundary-pushing conversations, and gathering together the new economy movement’s brightest leaders are at the core of NEC’s work and, we believe, will drive us toward a brighter and more democratic future.

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ANNUAL MEETING In May 2015 representatives from more than 50 of NEC’s member organizations convened for our second Annual Members’ Meeting in Philadelphia. It was a high-energy gathering that offered members a chance to meet our new Executive Director, connect with one another, another, share strategies, strategies, explore opportunities for collaboration, elect new NEC board members, and co-create plans for moving forward together. Members offered invaluable insights on communications and narrative strategy, collaborative fundraising, and new infrastructure to support sustained dialogue. Their guidance shaped the organization of New Economy Week as well as NEC’s second international CommonBound conference (to be held July 2016 in Buffalo) and NEC’s overall strategic plan, which we began developing in fall 2015 and completed in spring 2016.

NEW MEMBERS In 2015 NEC welcomed dozens of new member organizations representing key elements of the movement toward a new economy. Some of our new members are: Local and regional hubs of action, including People United

For Sustainable Housing (PUSH) Buffalo, the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development in Kentucky, the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center in Detroit, and SolidarityNYC. National networks and advocacy organizations, such as

CODEPINK, CODEPINK , The Canadian Worker Worker Co-op Federatio Federation, n, the Fellowship Fellowship for Intentional Community, Restaurants Advancing Industry Standards in Employment (RAISE), We Own It, and UPSTREAM. Thought leadership, education, and training groups, such as

Rethinking Prosperity, Beautiful Trouble, the Democracy at Work Institute, The Toolbox for Education and Social Action, and the Center for Earth Ethics. Exemplary community enterprises,

like Co-op Power, Real Pickles,

and GreenWave. Youth and student leaders, like

the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network, Maypop Collective for Climate and Economic Justice, and Rethinking Economics.

“I highly value NEC... many thanks than ks to you and and NEC for such an enabling, transparent and rich resource platform.” —MICHAEL PECK, CO-FOUNDER 1WORKER1VOTE, 1WORKER1VO TE, MO NDRAGON NORTH

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REGRANTING In 2015, NEC’s Youth and Frontline Regranting Program supported 18 organizations and new economy economy initiatives, rangin g from Gulf South Rising’s 10th 10th Anniversar y of Hurricane Katrina to the Boston Solidarity Economy Initiative to Enlace’s Prison Divestment Convergence. All of these powerful projects are lifting up the leadership of youth and frontline frontline organizers in bui lding community-centered economies. We also hosted our first firs t Grantee Gatherin g on May 14 in Philadelphia. Philadelphia has been a site of major youth organizing organi zing in i n the fight for public education as well as the esta blishment of a city-wide land bank. ban k. Youth organ organizers izers involved in loca l work welcomed welcomed grantees from across the country for a day of skillsharing, relationshiprelationship-building, building, a nd storytelli ng.

2015 GRANTEES 350.org Black Youth Project 100* Center for Economic Democracy Divestment Student Network* Dream Defenders*

EXAMPLES OF GRANTEE WORK

The Working World Peer Program was started to propagate the model of non-extractive finance to community-based organizations at the frontlines of the climate crisis in order to build a new, people-centered economy. In 2015 the program was successfully launched, held its first summer convening, and created a nationwide peer group to begin practicing and sharing work in communities across the country.

May 3-5, 2015, more than 160 people from over 40 different campaign partner groups—including groups—including those from Black, Brown, Asian, LGBTQ, youth, labor, faith, and immigrant communities—joined Enlace in Boca Raton, Florida, in a historic convening to end mass incarceration and immigrant detention. The convening included over 16 workshops where youth, immigrant, formerly incarcerated, Black, LGBTQ, and labor leaders shared strategies they are using to weaken the prison industry and to fight for liberation.

Enlace Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy Intelligent Mischief Kentuckians for the Commonwealth* LeftRoots* Maroon Project* Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment* Raised in the Revolution: Millennial Conference SolidarityNYC USA Cooperative Youth Council US Solidarity Economy Network (USSEN) Wildfire Project Working World *“Grasping at the Root” travel scholarship recipient

The Center for Economic Democracy’s Solidarity Economy Initiative (SEI) will be launching a broad set of popular education trainings to engage the members, staff, and boards of grassroots groups in gaining fluency with new economy frameworks. With support from SEI, cohort members will play anchor roles in the Boston Community Land Trust Network, the Boston Ujima (Community Finance) Project, and the Mass Jobs Not Jails Campaign. SEI will also host an inquiry on the formation of a Movement Training Center, a “Highlander for New England.” SEI held a collaborative process between funders and organizations doing new economy work in the field that has opened opportunities to build new infrastructure to connect grassroots organizing to new economy strategies.

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REINVESTMENT NEC organizers have remained an anchor in the growing Reinvest in Our Power Network, a collaboration of student campaigners and grassroots organizations to divest university holdings holdings in i n the fossil fuel industry and reinvest the money in a community-governed financial cooperative. cooperative. This program is aimed at building a new energy economy and is centered on the self-determination of communities historically at the frontlines of poverty and pollution. Rather than allowing people to be a tool of finance, we are making finance a tool of the people.

WHAT’S NEXT In July 2016 we’re we’re holding our second CommonBound conference. The conference will take place in Buffalo, New York, a city that is itself an important piece of the new economy story. Faced with the same disinvestment that has carved out countless towns and cities along America’s Rust Belt, Buffalo residents working in groups like PUSH Buffalo have been at the forefront of visionary organizing and institution-building that puts people and the planet ahead of profits. Inspired by the Allied Media Conference, CommonBound has been organized in a collaborative, decentralized way. Ninety volunteer coordinators and a local host committee are involved on the ground-floor, shaping the conference programming so that it reflects the organizations organizations and communities leading the movement. In a small way, CommonBound is aiming to mirror the democratic world we are working toward. tow ard. CommonBound will bring together people with powerful visions for the future: futur e: a cross-section cross-section of community communit y leaders, thinkers, and practitioners from around the world, including NEC’s 140+ member organizations organi zations from throughout the US and Canada. Participants will share strategies and stories, build relationships, relationships, highlight hig hlight achievements, and chart a shared path toward a society that puts people and planet first. The conference will feature 17 workshop tracks and 16 day-long gatherings exploring a range of topics, including: Democratizing energy systems in the face of accelerating climate change Racial justice and buildin g an economy where black lives matter Using policy and state power to achieve structural change Developing local economies without displacing people Building multi-racial, cross-class movements with visionary demands Worker cooperatives cooperatives and community enterprise as vehicles for shifting the economic system

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2015 DIRECTORS OF THE NEW ECONOMY COALITION

AARON TANAKA

ALLISON BASILE

Co-Founder and Director of the

Coordinator of Cooperation DC

Chief Public Policy Officer at

Center for Economic Democracy, Democracy,

(a project of Organizing Neighbor-

YouthBuild USA a nd Senior

Senior Advisor and former

hood Equity [ONE] DC), which

Fellow at the Center for American

Managing Director of the Boston

supports the development of worker

Progress. David also continues as

Impact Initiative, and Co-Founder

and community owned businesses.

an affordable housing attorney

and former Executive Director of

DAVID M. ABROMOWITZ

at Goulston & Storrs.

the Boston Workers Alliance.

GUS SPETH

HILDEGARDE HANNUM

Co-chair, Co-chair, Next System Project,

(Emerita) Member of the board of

Communications and Appalachian

Professor of Law at Vermont

the Schumacher Center for a New

Transition Transition Associate at the Mountain

Law School, formerly Dean of

Economics and editor of its Annual E.

Association for Community Economic

the Yale School of Forestry

F. Schumacher Lectures, she has been

Development in Berea, KY. MACED

and Environmental Studies.

a teacher of German and a prize-

serves the Central Appalachian

winning translator. translator.

region of Kentucky, seeking to

IVY BRASHEAR

move the region forward into a just, sustainable, post-coal economy. economy.

LEAH HUNT-HENDRIX

NEVA GOODWIN

SARAH STRANAHAN

Director of Solidaire, a donor

(Emerita) Co-director of the Global

Board member of the Stranahan

community dedicated to funding

Development and Environment

Foundation. From 2013 to 2015 she

social movements. She recently

Institute, and author of multiple

worked as the Strategic Development

completed her PhD at Princeton

books on alternative economics.

Director at Free Speech for People, a

University and is currently writing a

Dr. Goodwin led the creation of a

non-profit working to challenge the

book on the concept of solidarity.

“social science library” called Frontier

misuse of corporate power and restore

Thinking in Sustainable Development

republican democracy to the people.

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GAR ALPEROVITZ

DEIRDRE SMITH

ED WHITFIELD

Project Director for Wildfire Project

Co-Founder and Co-Managing

Author of America of America Beyond

and member of the BlackOut Collective.

Director of the Fund for

Capitalism and What Then

Wildfire trains, supports, and connects

Democratic Communities, which

Must We Do? , Co-Founder of

frontline organizing groups. BlackOut

supports community-based

the Democracy Collaborative,

Collective trains and supports Black

initiatives and institutions that

and Co-Chair of the Next

organizers and groups to develop

foster authentic economic

System Project.

creative, bold, and power-building

democracy.

direct action strategies.

JESSICA BRACKMAN

JOHN CAVANAGH

JOHN FULLERTON

Former CEO of FPG International,

Directs the Washington-based

Founder and President of the

a leading stock photography agency,

Institute for Policy Studies, which has

Capital Institute and the principal

now working in the area of social

been involved in new economy work

of Level 3 Capital Advisors.

and environmental impact docu-

in Maryland, the Boston area, and

mentary film. Most recently she was

nationally for more than a decade. Co-

Executive Producer of Catching the

author of 12 books on the economy, and

Sun, Sun, a film about solar power that

works closely with a number of national

explores how the US can build a

movement-building groups embracing

clean energy economy. economy.

different facets of a new economy. economy.

STACY STA CY MITCHEL L

STEWART WALLIS

WILL RAAP

Co-Director of the Institute

Senior Advisor and former E xecutive

Founder and Chairman of Gardener’s

for Local Self-Reliance, which

Director at the New Economics Founda-

Supply, Intervale Center (Vermont),

produces research and analysis,

tion. He is a leading thin ker, ker, speaker, and

Restoring Our Watershed Watershed (Costa

and partners with a range of allies

campaigner for economic system change.

Rica) and The Earth Partners (DC),

to design and implement policies

A fellow of the Club of Rome, a trustee

he is currently developing new

that curb economic consolidation,

of the World Economic Forum’s Global

economies based on honey (Costa

democratize ownership, and

Challenge Initiative on Economic Growth

Rica), hemp (VT), medicinal plants

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2015 FINANCIALS

2015 SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Foundations Major Gifts

$

861,000

83%

$ 98,517

9%

Individual Supporters

$

34,075

3%

Income carried over from 2014

$

46,134

4%

TOTAL

$1,039,726

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2015 FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES PROGRAMMATIC 48%

Programs

20%

Communications

$

439,019

$

180,310

$

174,924

$

114,099

ADMINISTRATIVE ADMINISTRA TIVE & SUPPORT 19%

Administration

13%

Fundraising TOTAL

$908,352

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OUR SUPPORTERS OUR SUPPORTERS The New Economy Coalition gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the individuals and foundations and other organizations who made our work possible in 2015. Contributions of $250 or more are listed here. We deeply appreciate our donors at all levels.

INDIVIDUAL DONORS

FOUNDATIONS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

Andrew Rosenthal Rosenthal

Carl Marks Foundation

Bonnie Rukin

Cloud Mountain Foundation

Brendan Martin

Community Foundation of New Jersey

Charles Sandmel and Barbara Simonetti

Compression Institute

David Ludlow

Germeshausen Foundation

David Roswell

Lifebridge Foundation

Dirk Wiggins

Lisa and Michael Schultz Foundation

Eli Schmitt

New Visions Foundation

Farhad Ebrahimi

NoVo Foundation

Fran and David Korten

Overbrook Foundation

Gus Speth

Rockefeller & Co.

Hildegarde Hannum

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Hunter Hannum

South Mountain Company Foundation

Jason Franklin

Tarbell Family Foundation

Jeff Clements

Threshold Foundation

Jennifer Corriggio

V. Kann Kann Rasmussen Foundation Foundation

Jessica Brackman and Charles Melcher Julie Brotje Higgins Kathryn Grody Kim Rosenthal and Andrew Nicholson Lisa Renstrom Margie Miller Naomi Sobel Neva Goodwin Paul Rudd Robin Chase Sarah Delaney Sarah Stranahan William Raap Raap

NEW ECONOMY COALITION STAFF KATE ARONOFF, Communications Manager SHAVAUN SHAV AUN EVANS, Network Organizer (beginning 2016) ELI FEGHALI, Director of Communications and Online Organizing JAMIE FRANK, Development Director (beginning 2016) ARAZ HACHADOURIAN, Communications Coordinator (beginning 2016) EMILY HARDT, Operations Director (ending 2015), Special Projects (beginning 2016) SACHIE HAYAKAWA, Regranting and Reinvestment Coordinator RICHARD HINES, Operations Manager ANAND JAHI, Program Director (beginning 2015) TORI KUPER, CommonBound 2016 Buffalo Coordinator (2016) RENÉ PÉREZ, IT and Data Systems Coordinator RACHEL PLATTUS, Program Director (ending 2015) EMMA PUKA-BEALS, Development Associate JONATHAN JONATHA N ROSENTHAL, Executive Director MIKE SANDMEL, Director of Coalition Engagement ALI SMART, Development Director (ending 2015) ASH TRULL, CommonBound 2016 Project Manager (2016)

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