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Resourcing the Solidarity Economy

My role:
Co-lead
In collaboration with:
Good Ancestor Movement
Collaborators:
Zahra Delilah, Deborah Grayson
  • Solidarity Economics
  • Community Wealth Building
  • Community Economics
  • Philanthropy
  • Resource redistribution
PLACEHOLDER (interim, pending final imagery): report cover for Resourcing the Solidarity Economy

Project Overview

This project was commissioned in 2023 in my role as Decolonising Economics Co-Director to support the Good Ancestor Movement (GAM) team in the development of a financing vehicle for solidarity economy initiatives.

Through community knowledge principles and practice, we centered the expertise and guidance of global majority and working class community solidarity organisers in their vision for an effective resourcing infrastructure to support their efforts. From political analysis, to frameworks, case-studies and community insight, we built a set of recommendations to be taken forward by GAM.

Project Outcome

The report established the foundations and principles of GAM's new resourcing vehicle that aimed to move private wealth into community control. In its first year, this vehicle distributed £500,000 to solidarity economy initiatives across the UK, with a commitment to continue pooling resources.

  • Report cover: 'Resourcing the Solidarity Economy' over a deep-green organic shape and painterly terracotta texture
  • Conclusions spread with green headline and a large blue-and-green vine-like illustration on orange
  • Epistemology spread featuring a quote on liberation and solidarity over a green-and-purple painted block
  • Findings spread listing common aspirations and challenges of solidarity economy organisations
  • Findings spread on chronic underfunding and inequity of access to resources, with organiser quotes

Read the full report →