Resource Library
Ongoing learning is central to our cooperative practice. As the solidarity economy grows, we continue to share our learnings with one another. These resources have been compiled by our organization’s working group members in collaboration with our movement partners.
Introduction to Business Model Canvas
The purpose of a business plan is to help articulate a strategy for starting your business. It also provides insight on steps to be taken, resources required for achieving your business goals and a timeline of anticipated results.
Cooperation New Orleans
Worker Owned Coops
Guides/Toolkits
The Organizational Power Matrix
This article presents a framework for developing a concrete practice of generative power
in organizations.
Cecile Stern
Building Strong Movements
Prose
In It Together - A Framework for Conflict Transformation in Movement-Building Groups
Explore the tools and resources that support the use of human-centered, non-punitive accountability practices in movement spaces.
Interrupting Criminalization
& Dragonfly Partners
Building Strong Movements
Guides/Toolkits
Solidarity Economy Glossary
Scroll through our growing glossary of words related to the solidarity economy movement!
Newsletter Archive
Every quarter, we send out a newsletter packed with thoughtfully written reflections, offerings on the topic of cooperation and Black Liberation, curated resources for shared readings, upcoming events, and updates on our ongoing work. Our newsletters are written in both English and Spanish. Check out some of our past newsletters below.
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What does it mean to cooperate right now?
Fall 2023
"We commit to the step-by-step work of remembering our potential ...with the knowing that our world will be changed by it...Cooperation is a constant balance of reciprocity, an ongoing practice, a muscle that can be strengthened with repetition."
-Lila Arnaud
Back to Basics with Cooperation New Orleans
Winter 2025
"Calling on our imaginations to reclaim and innovate our daily love practices: how we manageour homes and precious resources like our time and ability to care. Did you know it waspossible? Did you know we can fashion economies1 and the flow of our exchanges to meetour needs? "
-Lila Arnaud
Cooperation for Liberation
Summer 2023
"We give thanks to the aunties and grandmas, the babas and big chiefs who have passed down the traditions of mutual aid, solidarity, collectivizing of resources and cooperating towards a common goal as they paved the way (out of no way) for hope and inspiration."
-Tamah Yisrael