Solidarity Economy Incubator
Introducing: The SOLIDARITY ECONOMY Incubator
In 2025, we are launching a 2-year cohort comprised of (up to) five projects from across Massachusetts who are in the process of building liberatory projects that promote a regenerative economy based on care, cooperation, community control and ecological/social well-being. SEI, a program of the Center for Economic Democracy, is focused on building a regional ecosystem of strategically connected resist + build campaigns and projects. Learn more here.
Interested in Applying?
Applications will be accepted from September 20-December 6 and applications will be notified by the end of the year of their status.
Contact Eliza Parad with any questions: eliza@economicdemocracy.us
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF SEI
The Solidarity Economy Initiative started in 2014 to create space for organizers focused almost exclusively on resist-side campaigns to learn about solidarity economy models and provide space away from the response-based organizing to envision opportunities for creating new structures. Since that time, the Greater Boston area has seen the growth of many community land trusts, worker cooperatives and the Ujima community loan fund.
SEI’s first phase (2015-2018), included a small group of founding funders supported a cohort of grassroots leaders to learn and experiment with movement strategies that address capitalism as a root cause of social and ecological injustice. SEI’s second phase (2019-2023) includes the launch of a funder learning cohort, establishment of both grassroots and funder governance groups, expanded fundraising, and grassroots-led grant-making.
Our Communities have shown time and time again that they are very capable of designing, governing and owning their own resources to meet peoples’ needs, we saw this especially during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The grassroots organizations that formed SEI from 2014-2024 have been critical in helping to build a base of working class, People of Color who are confronting racial capitalism and creating alternatives to meet people’s needs. Now that we are entering a new stage of the SEI program, we want to offer resources and space for communities to continue sustaining those solidarity economy projects that are in a developed or developing stage.