Solidarity Works Chicago collaborates on solidarity economy and creative projects through strategic planning, research and, policy development, data analysis, and media production.
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Chicago Community Wealth Building Ecosystem (2023 - 2024)
/ Program Manager, Researcher, and Field Organizer
The Chicago Community Wealth Building Ecosystem (CCWBE) was the ‘hub’ for Research & Convening for worker-owned cooperatives, community land trusts, limited equity housing cooperatives, community investment vehicles, and other ecosystem partners. CCWBE aims to advance models of local, democratic, and shared ownership and control throughout Chicago but especially on the south and west sides of our city. The CCWBE hub does this by convening community wealth building (CWB) working groups, developing tools and other resources, connecting and building the capacity of ecosystem partners, conducting research and communicating the impact of community wealth building.
In 2022 the City of Chicago Office of Equity and Racial Justice (OERJ) launched the Community Wealth Building (CWB) Initiative in 2022, a $15 million investment in CWB enterprises, infrastructure, and capacity-building. You can read their report here.