We Make the Road Together

Our Projects

1Worker1Vote

We develop cooperative assessments with 1Worker1Vote.

ACLU of Northern California

We support the ACLU of Northern California with communications and membership research.

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project

We are the fiscal sponsor for the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project in Los Angeles.

Asian American Solidarity Economies

We convene a cohort of Asian American Solidarity Economies practitioners from around the country.

Beloved Community Incubator

We are partnered with Beloved Community Incubator to develop a regional solidarity economy in the metropolitan Washington DC area.

Californians United for a Responsible Budget

We develop participatory budgeting and critical data visualization of the Los Angeles County budget.

Changelab

We disaggregated Black and Asian American wealth, income, and employment data to look for points of solidarity.

Collective Remake

We support Collective Remake in the creation of a cooperative ecosystem for formerly incarcerated individuals in South Los Angeles.

Color Coded

We are a fiscal sponsor of a tech learning space for POC of all identities based in Los Angeles and beyond.

Community to Community

We provided campaign research for farmworkers to win dignity and respect.

Cooperacion Santa Ana

We partner with Cooperacion Santa Ana to understand regional economic trends in Orange County, California.

Decolonizing Economics Summit

We are sponsoring the Decolonizing Economics Summit: the 4th Annual Post-Capitalism Conference, April 20 – 22, 2023.

Dine Policy Institute

We are identifying the history and contemporary practice of solidarity economies in the Navajo Nation.

Elements of Mutual Aid

We support an independently produced documentary series profiling a dozen mutual aid-based projects across North America.

Energy Solidarity Cooperative

We help to strengthen the movement for energy democracy and community solar solutions.

Food Chain Workers Alliance

We support the Good Food Procurement Policy campaign in Chicago with research.

Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee

We support the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee with strategic research.

Los Angeles College Faculty Guild

We surveyed adjunct faculty members on health care access and coverage.

Los Angeles for All

We are building a municipalist movement and cooperative ecosystem in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles People's Movement Assembly

We help to convene the Los Angeles People’s Movement Assembly, a gathering of people to make decisions for collective action and power, since October 2022.

We partner with Movement of Rank-and-File Educators (MORE), the social justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers, to produce an analysis of the challenges New York City students and teachers face.

Municipalism Learning Series

We are coordinating the municipalism learning series to introduce the framework of radical municipalism to a broad audience in North America.

National CAPACD

We provide technical assistance for worker cooperatives developed by National CAPACD members.

National Domestic Workers Alliance

We are working with the National Domestic Workers Alliance on an assessment of the direct care industry.

New Economy Coalition

We support the metanarrative project of the New Economy Coalition.

The Next System

We provide editorial support for papers on systems change.

One Project

We are conducting a landscape assessment of the global solidarity economy movement for One Project.

Pacific Electric Worker Owned Coop

We provided market research and implemented marketing strategy for solar installation and electrician cooperative.

PayDay Report

We support PayDay Report, the South’s first union news coop.

Research Justice Collective

We are coordinating the research justice track of the Allied Media Conference 2018.

Resource Generation

We are supporting research on wealth redistribution.

RIPESS

We are members of the education and communications working group of the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS).

SWOP Chicago

We fiscally sponsor Sex Workers Organizing Project Chicago, a mutual aid and abolitionist organization led by current and former sex workers.

The Work and Us

We are the fiscal sponsor for The Work and Us, a participatory research project that seeks to develop the capacity of imprisoned people to engage in data collection and analysis around issues of importance to them in collaboration with researchers and organizers on the outside.

USSEN

We are building a new online presence for the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network.

Solidarity Research Center

453 South Spring Street, Suite 400
Los Angeles, California 90013
United States of America

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+1 (323) 539-7654