For over 10 years, Spring Up has used fiction, art, role play, and community education to popularize the skills and frameworks necessary to be free together. We support individuals and grass roots formations through offering free resources, zines + workbooks, 1:1 coaching, and webinars, courses + retreats at bluelight academy of the liberatory arts.

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TOGETHER WE: Provide access to healthy food at a fair price; Are a center of community activity; Promote local and regional food production; Keep capital and jobs in our community; Practice environmental responsibility and sustainability; Reflect our unique and diverse community.

VEGGI Farmers Cooperative is currently made up of 10 farmers growing on 2.0 acres in New Orleans East. Rooted in cultural tradition and community resilience, VEGGI grows heirloom produce native to both Louisiana and the Vietnamese diaspora using eco-friendly methods.

We craft communications, creative and digital campaigning strategies rooted in community so that our movements can grow as big as they need to create real change. Whether you have a campaign to win, a narrative to shift, or a voter base to turn out, our team can help you reach new heights while staying true to where you come from.

We specialize in creating custom software solutions that empower community organizations and cooperatives.

Founded by Jaleesa Jackson, Melegance LLC a communications consultancy that collaborates with changemakers to work toward collective liberation through storytelling.

Advancing technological sovereignty for the solidarity economy by putting workers and their communities in control of their technological tools and infrastructure. Through deep, relational collaboration, we co-create solutions that serve both the material and moral imperatives of our partners.

NEC exists to support a just transition from an extractive to a regenerative economy by building the scale and power of the solidarity economy movement in Black, Indigenous, and working class communities in every region of the United States.

1/4 acre urban farm growing plants for community food, medicine, & habitat

Ujima is providing community-led education that activates the young learner into collective action, through project-based learning, cooperative practices and Black libratory care. The Ujima Childcare Cooperative is held by organizers, educators, artists, and environmentalists who share their wealth of knowledge, to families of all structures, that centers a child’s development and prepares them to be change-makers.

Lavender Lounge designs monthly events built to strengthen the BIPOC Lesbian community in NOLA

Urban Dream Co-op is an event services cooperative where we provide live music, a deli style food pop-up, and access to a community cultural center. Through this model we are building in the elements to create a sustainable business and do the work we love. ❤️

We are Pagoda Cafe, a worker owned cafe with breakfast tacos, homemade pastries, & sandwiches. We offer a large drink menu with locally roasted coffee.

Builders of the Highway Foundation is a non-profit organization whose vision is for a world, functioning in truth, peace, and happiness. Our mission is to provide educational, economic, cultural, social, spiritual, and organizing resources for community advocacy to support the unification of good people.

TMH Financial & Management Solutions is proud to be a financial management company that helps business clients make sound financial decisions on a daily basis. Our commitment is to help businesses succeed by performing the critical accounting and bookkeeping functions needed to remain financially solvent and compliant with financial regulations.

BanchaLenguas is a worker-owned collective based in New Orleans (also named Bulbancha by the original native peoples of this land and its descendants) that partners with communities to create multilingual spaces through high-quality and responsible in-person and virtual interpretation, translation, consulting and language justice training.

Our co-op is a multi-disciplinary group with diverse cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds. Our skills and experiences include research, writing, planning, design, curation, fabrication, media, technology, environment, sociology, ecology, education, organizing, and strategy.

Birthmark is a New Orleans-based birth justice cooperative dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for pregnant and parenting people and their families, with a focus on increasing access to respectful services for communities facing barriers to care

Project Hustle is a Black, queer, hood feminist-led transformative organizing project in Southeast Louisiana. We center Black working class hustlers through people-power building, popular education, and storytelling projects that capture our creativity and ingenuity as Black women, Black femmes, and Black queer workers.