ANNUAL REVIEW 2015

The New Economy Coalition is helping deepen relationships between organizations and
providing the broader alignment we need. We
appreciate NECs leadership role in bringing
organizations across the movement together.
JACOB SWENSON-LENGYEL

PEOPLES ACTION

ANNUAL REVIEW 2015

OUR
MISSION
The New Economy Coalition (NEC)
is a network of organizations imagining and building a future where people,
communities, and ecosystems thrive.
Together, we are creating deep change
in our economy and politicsplacing
power in the hands of people and
uprooting legacies of harmso that
a fundamentally new system can
take root.
Our network advances change in three
main ways:
1. We convene and connect leaders to
tackle common challenges in their
work to build a new economy.
2. We amplify stories, tools, and
analysis, weaving a collective new
economy narrative that can build
shared identity, shift culture and
policy, and promote a clear vision
of the next system.
3. We lift up the work of communities
on the frontlines of interrelated
economic and ecological crises who
are organizing for transformative
change, through right relationships
and direct support.

OUR
VISION
At the New Economy Coalition,
were driven by a belief that all our
strugglesfor racial, economic, and
climate justice; for true democratic
governance and community
ownership; for prosperity rooted
in interdependence with the
earths natural systemsare deeply
interconnected. Rising to the
challenge of building a better world
demands that we fundamentally
transform our economic and
political systems.
We must imagine and create a
future where capital (wealth and the
means of creating it) is a tool of the
people, not the other way around.
What we need is a new systema
new economythat meets human
needs, enhances the quality of life,
and allows us to live in balance with
nature. Far from a dream, this new
economy is bursting forth through
the cracks of the current system
as people experiment with new
forms of business, governance, and
culture that give life to the claim that
another world is possible.

NEW ECONOMY COALITION

A LETTER FROM THE

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Dear Change Agents,
2015 was an exciting year for us as we said goodbye
to many people who moved on to new challenges and
welcomed several new people, including me, to the staff
and board. I joined New Economy Coalition at the end
of May 2015, eager to connect my decades of leading
businesses committed to improving human and planetary
well-being with the increasingly important work of
strengthening movements for deep systemic change.
Climate crisis, global network advances, perpetual war,
digital connectednessthe opportunities and challenges
facing humans have grown significantly in recent years.
NEC is well positioned to support our membersover 140
organizations across numerous sectors and issuesin
working more effectively through increased collaboration,
easier access to tools and resources, and the creation of a
more powerful collective voice.
We used 2015 to listen deeply to our members through
comprehensive interviews, revitalize and rebuild
our staff, stabilize our funding, engage in a strategic
planning process, coordinate New Economy Week, and

begin planning a radically collaborative CommonBound

conference, which will happen in July 2016.
We are thankful to our numerous supporters who gave
their time, goodwill, and resources to help us demonstrate that another world is possible. More and more,
that other world is already here.
In this report you will learn more about the powerful work
of our board, staff, and members. Together, we are working
to replace the harmful roots of our intertwined struggles
for justice, equality, sustainability, communitywith a
new system that values all people and honors the earth.
We believe that only by coming together will we succeed
and thrive.
We hope you will continue to walk with us on the path
to a better world.

Jonathan Rosenthal
Executive Director

People are stuck in the realm of tactics, fire fighting in their day jobs.
People rarely have time to think about movement infrastructure,
developing the skills around framing and most importantly the
community. NEC is very well positioned to do this.
DANIEL VOCKINS, NEON

ANNUAL REVIEW 2015

NEW ECONOMY COALITION

NEC MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS

(As of April 1, 2016. For the most up-to-date list of member organizations, visit newconomy.net/members)

1WORKER1VOTE.ORG

CROATAN INSTITUTE

350.ORG

CUTTING EDGE CAPITAL

AMERICAN SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS COUNCIL

DEMAND PROGRESS

ANTI-OPPRESSION RESOURCE AND TRAINING ALLIANCE (AORTA)

DEMOCRACY AT WORK INSTITUTE

AYNAH

DEMOS

BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE

DONELLA MEADOWS INSTITUTE

B LAB

DREAM CORPS (INCLUDES GREEN FOR ALL)

BOARD OF CHANGE

EARTHACTION

BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE

EARTH CHARTER INTERNATIONAL

BOTTOM UP ECONOMY

EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE

BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR LOCAL LIVING ECONOMIES

ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY INSTITUTE

CANADIAN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

EQUAL EXCHANGE

CANADIAN WORKER CO-OP FEDERATION

EQUITY TRUST, INC.

CAPITAL INSTITUTE

FAIR WORLD PROJECT

CARING ECONOMY CAMPAIGN

FELLOWSHIP FOR INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY

CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN DREAM

FOOD FIRST

CENTER FOR EARTH ETHICS

FOSSIL FUEL DIVESTMENT STUDENT NETWORK

CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY

FUND FOR DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES

CENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION

GLOBAL COMMUNITY INITIATIVES

CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE STEADY STATE ECONOMY

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE

CENTRE FOR LOCAL PROSPERITY

GRAND ASPIRATIONS

CITYSEED

GREEN AMERICA

CLASS ACTION

GREEN MAP SYSTEM

CODEPINK

GREENWAVE

COFED: THE COOPERATIVE FOOD EMPOWERMENT DIRECTIVE

GROUNDSWELL

COMMUNITY BUILDERS LONG ISLAND

GUND INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

COMMUNITY PURCHASING ALLIANCE COOPERATIVE

HOURWORLD COOPERATIVE

COMMUNITY SOURCED CAPITAL, SPC

INITIATIVE FOR EQUALITY (IFE)

COMMUNITY VENTURES

INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY

COMPRESSION INSTITUTE

INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE

CONCORD CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK

INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES

COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

INTELLIGENT MISCHIEF

COOPERATIVE FUND OF NEW ENGLAND

IOBY (IN OUR BACK YARDS)

CO-OP POWER

JAMAICA PLAIN NEW ECONOMY TRANSITION

COOPZONE DEVELOPERS NETWORK

JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS CENTER TO NURTURE

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL

COWORKER.ORG
COWS (CENTER ON WISCONSIN STRATEGY)

LABOR NETWORK FOR SUSTAINABILITY

LIBERTY TREE

ANNUAL REVIEW 2015

NECs visionary members are key to achieving our shared goals. Our membership includes an exciting
range of groups from across the US and Canada that are engaged in every facet of building the new economy:
from theorizing to organizing to building community wealth. Were grateful for our members continued
engagement and look forward to deeper collaboration going forward.

LIFEBRIDGE FOUNDATION

RETHINKING ECONOMICS

LINC FOODS

RETHINKING PROSPERITY

LIVING ECONOMIES FORUM

SCHUMACHER CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMICS

LOCAL CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE

SELF-HELP CREDIT UNION

LOCAL ENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE FUND (LEAF)

SHAREABLE

LOCAL FUTURES/ISEC

SLOW MONEY

MAYPOP COLLECTIVE FOR CLIMATE AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE

SMALL PLANET INSTITUTE

MISSOURIANS ORGANIZING FOR REFORM AND EMPOWERMENT

SOLIDARITY ECONOMY DC

MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

SOLIDARITYNYC

MOVEMENT GENERATION: JUSTICE AND ECOLOGY PROJECT

SOLIDARITY RESEARCH CENTER

NATIONAL PRIORITIES PROJECT

SOSTENICA

NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS

SOUTH MOUNTAIN COMPANY, INC.

NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION (NEF)

SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS

NEW ECONOMY MARYLAND

SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION RESEARCH AND ACTION

INITIATIVE (SCORAI)

NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND

NORTH AMERICAN STUDENTS OF COOPERATION
NORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL
NORTHWEST ATLANTIC MARINE ALLIANCE
NUCLEAR INFORMATION AND RESOURCE SERVICE
ONE EARTH
OWNERSHIP ASSOCIATES, INC.
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PROJECT
PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND
PEOPLES ACTION
PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING (PUSH BUFFALO)
PHILADELPHIA AREA COOPERATIVE ALLIANCE
POLICYLINK
POST CARBON INSTITUTE
POST GROWTH INSTITUTE
PROJECT EQUITY
PUBLIC BANKING INSTITUTE
PUBLIC WORKS
RAISE
REAL FOOD CHALLENGE
REAL PICKLES
REDESIGN READING
RESPONSIBLE ENDOWMENTS COALITION

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES LAW CENTER

SUSTAINABLE ENDOWMENTS INSTITUTE
SUSTAINABLE WORLD INITIATIVE
SUSTAINUS
TAKE BACK YOUR TIME
TELLUS INSTITUTE
THE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE
THE THOMAS MERTON CENTER
THE TOOLBOX FOR EDUCATION AND SOCIAL ACTION
THE WORKING WORLD
TIMEBANKS USA
TRANSITION TOWN PETERBOROUGH
TRANSITION US
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST COMMUNITY COOPERATIVES
UNITED FOR A FAIR ECONOMY
UPSTREAM
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE
U.S. FEDERATION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES
WE OWN IT
WORCESTER ROOTS PROJECT
YES! MAGAZINE
YOUNG PEOPLES ACTION COALITION

NEW ECONOMY COALITION

NEW ECONOMY WEEK 2015

In November, NEC organized New Economy Week 2015, a public
conversation about the ideas that can transform society and build an
economy where people and the planet matter. Over the course of the
week, we put forward five pressing challenges that stand between us
and tomorrows economy and invited NEC member organizations,
community leaders, and researchers to respond to them.
Each day of New Economy Week we published original content
across online platformsfrom interviews and stories in traditional
publications to Twitter chats and live YouTube panels. We also put out a
call for in-person events that grappled with these issues and highlighted
work being done to build the new economy in communities across the
world. Over the course of the week, 50 of these events took place across
the US and Canada, along with several exciting webinars and online
panels, and there were over 40 written pieces from NEC members
and allies!

ANNUAL REVIEW 2015

SPEAKING WITH ONE

VOICE, TELLING A STORY
THAT MOVES PEOPLE
The more we can speak with one voice, the more effective and credible
our message will become. By increasing the communications capacity
of our members, NEC builds popular momentum for the ideas,
institutions, and potential of the new economy movement.
We heard our members express a need for broad alignment around
the story of the new economy; in 2015 we responded by partnering
with the Center for Story-based Strategy to launch the Metanarrative
Project. During the project, NEC staff and member organizations
will work together to coalesce the new economy movements various
narratives into a clear, compelling framework that can be used by
diverse organizations to inspire public support. Through messaging
research, bold campaigns, and capacity-building trainings, the
Metanarrative Project will help shift the dominant narratives standing
in the way of transformative economic and political change.
During the projects initial design phase last year, NEC staff interviewed over 50 NEC members to better understand how different
organizations tell the new economy story and to uncover the most
promising opportunities for shared strategy. Over the next year, NEC
will build on this foundation of research to launch new programs and
experimental initiatives in collaboration with our members.

If people are talking climate action or urban poverty there needs to be a second beat
of what an alternative looks like. NEC can be a switchboard, can make space to connect those two halves. Its important to have space where people who are doing this
work can check in with each other, and thats something NEC has done well. Its a
space where people can see themselves as part of a larger movement. Its concrete
and creates a framework for thinking about collaboration and alignment.
JOHN DUDA,

THE DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE

NEW ECONOMY COALITION

NEC IN THE WORLD

NECs members are a cross-section of some of the
most dynamic new economy thinking and organizing
happening throughout the US and Canada. Working
on everything from transformative economic policy to
innovative community wealth-building institutions,
these organizations are at the leading edge of the
toughest issues facing societies worldwide, from
gaping inequality to ecological crisis.
In St. Louis, Missourians Organizing for Reform and
Empowerment were some of the first responders to be
support organizers on the ground when Michael Brown
was shot and killed in nearby Ferguson. Now MORE is
making critical connections between police brutality,
economic injustice, and the citys 1 percent while
working with residents to build up a thriving solidarity
economy. During New Economy Week 2015, MORE
hosted a community conversation, Building an Economy
Where #BlackLivesMatter, in St. Louis and worked
with NEC to highlight MOREs work for a national
audience in YES! Magazine.
PUSH Buffalo, a Peoples Action affiliate, is showing
a path to a clean energy future that puts people and the
planet over corporate profits. With its 25-square-block
Green Development Zone, PUSH is training workers
in solar installation and insulation while pushing back
gentrification on Buffalos West Side. By working with
PUSH and the rest of the Buffalo-based Crossroads

Collective on CommonBound 2016, NEC hopes to

showcase this work for the new economy movement
and for anyone looking for equity-driven solutions
to the climate crisis.
By highlighting its members stories, NEC weaves the
countless living examples of the new economyso often
disparate and disconnectedinto a narrative were
too often told doesnt exist: that not only are there
alternatives to the way things are but there are people
and communities actively building them.
As debates on the future of work, technologys impact
on the economy, and energy transitions multiply, NEC
offers systemic solutions to issues too often discussed
in isolation. Rather than simply breaking up Wall
Street banks, why not democratize them? Why only
transition from dirty, extractive energy when we have
the opportunity to bring utilities under public control?
These solutions are the lifeblood of our members, and
as a coalitionNEC works to intervene in national and
international conversations with a forward-facing vision
for the economy we need. Matchmaking along critical
intersections, convening vital and boundary-pushing
conversations, and gathering together the new economy
movements brightest leaders are at the core of NECs
work and, we believe, will drive us toward a brighter and
more democratic future.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2015

ANNUAL MEETING
In May 2015 representatives from more than 50 of NECs member
organizations convened for our second Annual Members Meeting
in Philadelphia. It was a high-energy gathering that offered
members a chance to meet our new Executive Director, connect
with one another, share strategies, explore opportunities for
collaboration, elect new NEC board members, and co-create plans
for moving forward together. Members offered invaluable insights
on communications and narrative strategy, collaborative fundraising,
and new infrastructure to support sustained dialogue. Their guidance
shaped the organization of New Economy Week as well as NECs
second international CommonBound conference (to be held July
2016 in Buffalo) and NECs overall strategic plan, which we began
developing in fall 2015 and completed in spring 2016.

NEW MEMBERS
In 2015 NEC welcomed dozens of new member organizations
representing key elements of the movement toward a new economy.
Some of our new members are:
Local and regional hubs of action, including People United For

Sustainable Housing (PUSH) Buffalo, the Mountain Association for

Community Economic Development in Kentucky, the James and
Grace Lee Boggs Center in Detroit, and SolidarityNYC.
National networks and advocacy organizations, such as

CODEPINK, The Canadian Worker Co-op Federation, the Fellowship

for Intentional Community, Restaurants Advancing Industry
Standards in Employment (RAISE), We Own It, and UPSTREAM.
Thought leadership, education, and training groups, such as

Rethinking Prosperity, Beautiful Trouble, the Democracy at Work

Institute, The Toolbox for Education and Social Action, and the
Center for Earth Ethics.
Exemplary community enterprises, like Co-op Power, Real Pickles,

and GreenWave.
Youth and student leaders, like the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student

Network, Maypop Collective for Climate and Economic Justice, and

Rethinking Economics.

I highly value NEC...

many thanks to you and
NEC for such an enabling,
transparent and rich
resource platform.
MICHAEL PECK, CO-FOUNDER
1WORKER1VOTE, MONDRAGON NORTH
AMERICAN DELEGATE

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NEW ECONOMY COALITION

REGRANTING
In 2015, NECs Youth and Frontline Regranting
Program supported 18 organizations and new
economy initiatives, ranging from Gulf South
Risings 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
to the Boston Solidarity Economy Initiative to
Enlaces Prison Divestment Convergence. All of
these powerful projects are lifting up the leadership
of youth and frontline organizers in building
community-centered economies.
We also hosted our first Grantee Gathering on May 14
in Philadelphia. Philadelphia has been a site of major
youth organizing in the fight for public education as
well as the establishment of a city-wide land bank.
Youth organizers involved in local work welcomed
grantees from across the country for a day of skillsharing, relationship-building, and storytelling.

2015 GRANTEES
350.org
Black Youth Project 100*
Center for Economic Democracy
Divestment Student Network*
Dream Defenders*

E X AM P LE S O F G R ANTE E WO R K

The Working World Peer Program was started to

propagate the model of non-extractive finance to
community-based organizations at the frontlines of the
climate crisis in order to build a new, people-centered
economy. In 2015 the program was successfully
launched, held its first summer convening, and created
a nationwide peer group to begin practicing and
sharing work in communities across the country.

May 3-5, 2015, more than 160 people from over 40

different campaign partner groupsincluding those
from Black, Brown, Asian, LGBTQ, youth, labor,
faith, and immigrant communitiesjoined Enlace in
Boca Raton, Florida, in a historic convening to end
mass incarceration and immigrant detention. The
convening included over 16 workshops where youth,
immigrant, formerly incarcerated, Black, LGBTQ,
and labor leaders shared strategies they are using to
weaken the prison industry and to fight for liberation.

Enlace
Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy
Intelligent Mischief
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth*
LeftRoots*
Maroon Project*
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment*
Raised in the Revolution: Millennial Conference
SolidarityNYC
USA Cooperative Youth Council
US Solidarity Economy Network (USSEN)
Wildfire Project
Working World
*Grasping at the Root travel scholarship recipient

The Center for Economic Democracys Solidarity

Economy Initiative (SEI) will be launching a broad set
of popular education trainings to engage the members,
staff, and boards of grassroots groups in gaining
fluency with new economy frameworks. With support
from SEI, cohort members will play anchor roles in the
Boston Community Land Trust Network, the Boston
Ujima (Community Finance) Project, and the Mass Jobs
Not Jails Campaign. SEI will also host an inquiry on the
formation of a Movement Training Center, a Highlander
for New England. SEI held a collaborative process
between funders and organizations doing new economy
work in the field that has opened opportunities to build
new infrastructure to connect grassroots organizing to
new economy strategies.

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ANNUAL REVIEW 2015

REINVESTMENT
NEC organizers have remained an anchor in
the growing Reinvest in Our Power Network,
a collaboration of student campaigners and
grassroots organizations to divest university
holdings in the fossil fuel industry and reinvest
the money in a community-governed financial
cooperative. This program is aimed at building
a new energy economy and is centered on the
self-determination of communities historically at the frontlines of poverty and pollution.
Rather than allowing people to be a tool of
finance, we are making finance a tool of
the people.

WHATS NEXT
In July 2016 were holding our second CommonBound
conference. The conference will take place in Buffalo,
New York, a city that is itself an important piece of the new
economy story. Faced with the same disinvestment that has
carved out countless towns and cities along Americas Rust
Belt, Buffalo residents working in groups like PUSH Buffalo
have been at the forefront of visionary organizing and
institution-building that puts people and the planet ahead
of profits.
Inspired by the Allied Media Conference, CommonBound
has been organized in a collaborative, decentralized way.
Ninety volunteer coordinators and a local host committee
are involved on the ground-floor, shaping the conference
programming so that it reflects the organizations and
communities leading the movement. In a small way,
CommonBound is aiming to mirror the democratic world
we are working toward.
CommonBound will bring together people with powerful
visions for the future: a cross-section of community
leaders, thinkers, and practitioners from around the
world, including NECs 140+ member organizations from
throughout the US and Canada. Participants will share
strategies and stories, build relationships, highlight
achievements, and chart a shared path toward a society
that puts people and planet first.
The conference will feature 17 workshop tracks and 16
day-long gatherings exploring a range of topics, including:
Democratizing energy systems in the face of accelerating
climate change
Racial justice and building an economy where black lives matter
Using policy and state power to achieve structural change
Developing local economies without displacing people
Building multi-racial, cross-class movements with visionary
demands
Worker cooperatives and community enterprise as vehicles for
shifting the economic system
...and much more!

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NEW ECONOMY COALITION

2015 DIRECTORS OF THE

NEW ECONOMY COALITION

AARON TANAKA

ALLISON BASILE

DAVID M. ABROMOWITZ

Co-Founder and Director of the

Center for Economic Democracy,
Senior Advisor and former
Managing Director of the Boston
Impact Initiative, and Co-Founder
and former Executive Director of
the Boston Workers Alliance.

Coordinator of Cooperation DC
(a project of Organizing Neighborhood Equity [ONE] DC), which
supports the development of worker
and community owned businesses.

Chief Public Policy Officer at

YouthBuild USA and Senior
Fellow at the Center for American
Progress. David also continues as
an affordable housing attorney
at Goulston & Storrs.

GUS SPETH

HILDEGARDE HANNUM

IVY BRASHEAR

Co-chair, Next System Project,

Professor of Law at Vermont
Law School, formerly Dean of
the Yale School of Forestry
and Environmental Studies.

(Emerita) Member of the board of

the Schumacher Center for a New
Economics and editor of its Annual E.
F. Schumacher Lectures, she has been
a teacher of German and a prizewinning translator.

Communications and Appalachian

Transition Associate at the Mountain
Association for Community Economic
Development in Berea, KY. MACED
serves the Central Appalachian
region of Kentucky, seeking to
move the region forward into a just,
sustainable, post-coal economy.

LEAH HUNT-HENDRIX

NEVA GOODWIN

SARAH STRANAHAN

(Emerita) Co-director of the Global

Development and Environment
Institute, and author of multiple
books on alternative economics.
Dr. Goodwin led the creation of a
social science library called Frontier
Thinking in Sustainable Development
and Human Well-Being.

Board member of the Stranahan

Foundation. From 2013 to 2015 she
worked as the Strategic Development
Director at Free Speech for People, a
non-profit working to challenge the
misuse of corporate power and restore
republican democracy to the people.

Director of Solidaire, a donor

community dedicated to funding
social movements. She recently
completed her PhD at Princeton
University and is currently writing a
book on the concept of solidarity.

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ANNUAL REVIEW 2015

DEIRDRE SMITH

ED WHITFIELD

GAR ALPEROVITZ

Project Director for Wildfire Project

and member of the BlackOut Collective.
Wildfire trains, supports, and connects
frontline organizing groups. BlackOut
Collective trains and supports Black
organizers and groups to develop
creative, bold, and power-building
direct action strategies.

Co-Founder and Co-Managing

Director of the Fund for
Democratic Communities, which
supports community-based
initiatives and institutions that
foster authentic economic
democracy.

Author of America Beyond

Capitalism and What Then
Must We Do?, Co-Founder of
the Democracy Collaborative,
and Co-Chair of the Next
System Project.

JESSICA BRACKMAN

JOHN CAVANAGH

JOHN FULLERTON

Former CEO of FPG International,

a leading stock photography agency,
now working in the area of social
and environmental impact documentary film. Most recently she was
Executive Producer of Catching the
Sun, a film about solar power that
explores how the US can build a
clean energy economy.

Directs the Washington-based

Institute for Policy Studies, which has
been involved in new economy work
in Maryland, the Boston area, and
nationally for more than a decade. Coauthor of 12 books on the economy, and
works closely with a number of national
movement-building groups embracing
different facets of a new economy.

Founder and President of the

Capital Institute and the principal
of Level 3 Capital Advisors.

STACY MITCHELL

STEWART WALLIS

WILL RAAP

Co-Director of the Institute

for Local Self-Reliance, which
produces research and analysis,
and partners with a range of allies
to design and implement policies
that curb economic consolidation,
democratize ownership, and
strengthen community.

Senior Advisor and former Executive

Director at the New Economics Foundation. He is a leading thinker, speaker, and
campaigner for economic system change.
A fellow of the Club of Rome, a trustee
of the World Economic Forums Global
Challenge Initiative on Economic Growth
and Social Inclusion, and Vice-Chair of
WEFs Global Agenda Council on Values.

Founder and Chairman of Gardeners

Supply, Intervale Center (Vermont),
Restoring Our Watershed (Costa
Rica) and The Earth Partners (DC),
he is currently developing new
economies based on honey (Costa
Rica), hemp (VT), medicinal plants
(US), and soil carbon (international).

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NEW ECONOMY COALITION

2015 FINANCIALS

2015 SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Foundations

$ 861,000

83%

$ 98,517

9%

Individual Supporters

$ 34,075

3%

Income carried over from 2014

$ 46,134

4%

Major Gifts

TOTAL

$1,039,726

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ANNUAL REVIEW 2015

2015 FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES

PROGRAMMATIC
48%

Programs

20%

Communications

$ 439,019
$ 180,310

ADMINISTRATIVE & SUPPORT

19%

Administration

$ 174,924

13%

Fundraising

$ 114,099

TOTAL

$908,352

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NEW ECONOMY COALITION

OUR SUPPORTERS
The New Economy Coalition gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the individuals
and foundations and other organizations who made our work possible in 2015. Contributions
of $250 or more are listed here. We deeply appreciate our donors at all levels.

INDIVIDUAL DONORS

FOUNDATIONS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

Andrew Rosenthal

Carl Marks Foundation

Bonnie Rukin

Cloud Mountain Foundation

Brendan Martin

Community Foundation of New Jersey

Charles Sandmel and Barbara Simonetti

Compression Institute

David Ludlow

Germeshausen Foundation

David Roswell

Lifebridge Foundation

Dirk Wiggins

Lisa and Michael Schultz Foundation

Eli Schmitt

New Visions Foundation

Farhad Ebrahimi

NoVo Foundation

Fran and David Korten

Overbrook Foundation

Gus Speth

Rockefeller & Co.

Hildegarde Hannum

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Hunter Hannum

South Mountain Company Foundation

Jason Franklin

Tarbell Family Foundation

Jeff Clements

Threshold Foundation

Jennifer Corriggio

V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation

Jessica Brackman and Charles Melcher

Julie Brotje Higgins
Kathryn Grody
Kim Rosenthal and Andrew Nicholson
Lisa Renstrom
Margie Miller
Naomi Sobel
Neva Goodwin
Paul Rudd
Robin Chase
Sarah Delaney
Sarah Stranahan
William Raap

NEW ECONOMY COALITION STAFF

KAT E A R O N O F F,

Communications Manager

S H AVAU N E VA NS ,

Network Organizer (beginning 2016)

Director of Communications and Online Organizing

ELI FEGHALI,

JA M I E F R A N K ,

Development Director (beginning 2016)

A R A Z H AC H A D OURIAN,
E M I LY H A R DT,

Operations Director (ending 2015), Special Projects (beginning 2016)

SAC H I E H AYA KAWA,

RICHARD HINES,
A N A N D JA H I ,

Communications Coordinator (beginning 2016)

Regranting and Reinvestment Coordinator

Operations Manager

Program Director (beginning 2015)

TO R I KU P E R ,

CommonBound 2016 Buffalo Coordinator (2016)

REN PREZ,

IT and Data Systems Coordinator

R AC H E L P L AT T U S ,

Program Director (ending 2015)

E M M A P U KA- B EALS ,

Development Associate

J O N AT H A N R OS E NTH AL,
M I K E SA N D M E L,

Executive Director

Director of Coalition Engagement

A L I SM A R T,

Development Director (ending 2015)

AS H T R U L L ,

CommonBound 2016 Project Manager (2016)

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