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Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Act 2026
This version of this Act contains provisions that are prospective.
🧭🏘️📲 Exploring a new social product for local communities
We’re seeking local partners for collaboration as we pilot new concepts and designs

Grassroots Economics — Community-Powered Economies
Empowering communities across the World with community currencies, ecosystem restoration, and commitment pooling since 2010.

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Civic social infrastructure for communities, governance, and public participation.
ORGANISING PRINCIPLES — THE ALTERNATIVE
This makes the difference between a localism that cannot sustain itself because it is simply too small with limited resources of skills and expertise. And one that is able to build its own regenerative economy, entirely through access to the global commons.
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When we were building the first version of Open Collective, we found that communities and their members often had a complex relationship…

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Explore UKAI Projects' innovative cultural research and artistic programs that foster social change and collective imagination worldwide.

NAACP Unveils Blueprint for Building Black Wealth
The NAACP's new roadmap aims to help Black families build assets, close the racial wealth gap and create generational wealth.

NAACP Unveils Blueprint for Building Black Wealth
The NAACP's new roadmap aims to help Black families build assets, close the racial wealth gap and create generational wealth.


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Solidarity Infrastructures is a class that brings together creative practitioners from respective communities to investigate, strategize, upskill, and dream toward alternative socio-technological systems.
What makes a sustainable community?
Bill Burr describes Scotland's ambitious Kincluny Village project, which combines green development practices with sustainable community building

Solidarity Infrastructures
Solidarity Infrastructures is a class that brings together creative practitioners to investigate, strategize, upskill, and dream toward alternative socio-technological systems.
Home - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Our mission is to envision a just and regenerative economy; apply the concepts locally; then share the results for broad replication. Programs Library Lectures & Publications The Decentralism File Community Land Trust Local Currencies Reinventing The Commons All Programs eNewsletters All News “Since there is now increasing evidence of environmental deterioration, particularly in … Continued
