Our Global Lead for CWB, Neil McInroy, delivered a keynote address at this year’s Development Trusts NI conference, in Derry, Northern Ireland. This an adapted version of his speech.

CWB partnerships in the town of Larne and in the North West region are each to receive £150,000 from the government.

Briefing note by TDC fellow Ben Sellers on the situation on the British left and the development of a new left party.

The Democracy Collaborative stands in solidarity with other charities across the U.S. We are one of the nearly 4,000 signatories of an open letter rejecting Presidential attacks on nonprofit organizations.

The Democracy Collaborative co-sponsored a panel discussion on “uni-muni-community strategies” at the Next System Convergence on September 4, 2005.

A study published in the British Medical Journal has shown that social metrics in Preston, England, improved significantly since the city adopted a Community Wealth Building programme.

Governments, think tanks, and philanthropic foundations parade bold system-change agendas, yet the substance rarely matches the slogans when it comes to concrete material outcomes.

The Democracy Collaborative and The Hope Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), solidifying the longstanding cooperation between the two organizations.

The Democracy Collaborative, as part of the Missouri Research Consortium, has been awarded a grant to launch a landmark Community Wealth Building initiative in Kansas City.

Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in New York City’s Democratic Primary has opened up new horizons of possibility for economic transformation in America’s cities.

The Democracy Collaborative with WEPOWER are looking to hire a Fellow to work on Community Wealth Building activities within and based in St Louis. 

In this companion piece to their in-depth conversation (embedded and available on Spotify), The Democracy Collaborative’s CWB Global Lead, Neil McInroy, and President, Joe Guinan, discuss the nature of the present crisis and the need for systemic responses.

Come 2028, many might feel battle-weary and exhausted, disoriented and burnt out. In his inimitable style, Gus Speth asks some questions and offers some ideas for an America after Trump.

We have launched a new newsletter aimed at keeping our Community Wealth Building community of practice abreast of latest developments and connected through shared knowledge.

Two recent events in England offer useful perspectives on the state of play with Community Wealth Building globally, and in the contexts of the particular challenges in Britain and America.

The work of communities, community groups , and activists is all part of a wider Community Wealth Building theory of change model which seeks  deep economic system change through economic democracy. 

The rise in right-wing populism could upend the established party system and disrupt Britain’s political landscape for years to come. The answer to this reactionary movement must come through progressive economic policies like CWB.

Everywhere we look there are new tripwires being laid, actions by the Trump Administration that could easily serve as the proximate cause or trigger of a financial crisis that could cause a chain reaction ending in a great crash.

We have lived so long with the dominant model of capital ownership that it’s hard to imagine any other model actually working at scale in the world of rough-and-tumble capitalism. Can OpenAI show the way?

In a world of ever growing inequality, our Distinguished Senior Fellow, Marjorie Kelly, commends the Roosevelt Institute on the recent publication of a collection of essays on economic democracy.