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Cooperative Ways to Weather the Silver Tsunami

Jaisal Noor

December 07, 2023 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Worker cooperatives, which are worker-owned and democratically operated, are spreading across the United States as a response to the large number of baby-boomer-owned businesses closing with no succession plan. Baltimore’s Common Ground Cafe is an example of staff, the community, and a local cooperative incubator coming together to do just that.

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Trash is a lifeline for ‘los cartoneros,' Argentina's army of recyclers

Philippe Bernes-Lasserre Nina Negrón

October 20, 2023 |

Buenos Aires Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

People across Argentina are earning an income during a severe economic crisis by joining recycling cooperatives. Members collect recyclables off the street and are paid by the co-ops by material and weight.

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How Houston Cut Its Homeless Population by Nearly Two-Thirds

Alan Greenblatt

August 30, 2023 |

Governing |

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Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

Houston’s The Way Home collective is made up of 100 nonprofits with different approaches to combatting homelessness. Case managers enter information about people experiencing homelessness in the city into a database that shows all of the programs each person is eligible for and which nonprofits have space available.

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Grassroots Housing Reparations

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

August 29, 2023 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

The best way to grow generational wealth in the United States is by owning a home, so the Portland-based collective Taking Ownership is fighting the effects of gentrification in Black neighborhoods by helping homeowners do necessary home improvement work. Volunteers and licensed contractors do the work, and the projects are funded with donations from mostly White and wealthy donors.

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This Oakland climbing group is getting more Black people ‘psyched' about the sport

Azucena Rasilla

July 24, 2023 |

The Oaklandside |

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Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

The Black Rock Collective strives to build community among both new and experienced Black climbers, providing support, education and friendship within a historically white-dominated sport. Since launching in December 2021, the group has grown to over 80 members. They host meetups three times a month throughout the area and also have a WhatsApp group chat where members can chat and organize climbs.

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A crowdfunded community initiative evacuated over 6,000 South Sudanese citizens out of Khartoum

Richard Sultan

July 20, 2023 |

Aidóni |

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Response Location: South Sudan, Juba

The Citizen's Call for the Emergency Evacuation of the South Sudanese collective arose after a lack of government action to help evacuate people pushed locals to start a crowdfunding campaign to facilitate the evacuations themselves. Through the use of social media, community meetings and press conferences the collective called upon locals and organizations to donate to the cause. The money was then used to pay truck drivers to help transport evacuated people. So far, these efforts have helped 6,600 individuals.

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Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala

Aimee Gabay

July 07, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Guatemala

Farmer associations and Indigenous and local communities across Guatemala are working together to recover ancestral agricultural practices and educate farmers in agroecology. The collective, called the Utz Che’ Community Forestry Association, is building agroecology schools that are free to attend and facilitate co-learning in which students learn from each other. Their work protects native forests and local livelihoods from the damage caused by intensive monoculture.

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Inside a Texas homeless village that inspires California replicas: Art, movies and a fishing pond

Marisa Kendall

June 28, 2023 |

CalMatters |

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Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

Community First! Village is a 51-acre tiny home and RV village that serves as home for 350 formerly unhoused people, providing both shelter and a sense of community and connection. The Village offers a community garden, fishing pond, game room, ceramics studio and even an outdoor movie theater. Community First! Village’s success has even been inspiring California leaders to replicate the effort in areas of the state with high rates of homelessness.

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'This is ours' - Somaliland women smell success as frankincense business takes off

Rachel Fobar

May 17, 2023 |

The Fuller Project |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Somaliland, Erigavo

Beeyo Maal is a collective of women running their own businesses in Somaliland’s male-dominated frankincense industry. The group, which has about 280 members, allows women to make roughly five times what they were paid when previously working for exploitative companies.

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The Puerto Ricans Illegally Occupying Land to Resist Displacement

Laura M. Quintero Bianca Graulau

May 12, 2023 |

Economic Hardship Reporting Project |

Multi-Media |

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Response Location: Puerto Rico

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, several locals are joining together to occupy land and avoid further displacement. Community members have worked together to address food insecurity by creating community gardens and have also cleaned and repaired abandoned buildings in the community to turn them into food banks, housing options and resource centers for those in need.

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