Growing your local peace economy is a labor of love, and you’re going to encounter questions along the way. Luckily, there are others who have done this work and offered their learnings back to us. Below is a list of tools–”how to” guides, webinars, podcast conversations, and more–that illuminate parts of the path forward as we cultivate our local peace economies. These resources are here to serve you and your communities as you make a new way together.
Arts and Culture:
Community Land Trusts:
- Community Land Trust Toolkit - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
- Startup Community Land Trust Hub - Grounded Solutions Network
- The Community Land Trust Model and Movement - Grounded Solutions Network
- Community Land Trust Technical Manual - Grounded Solutions Network
- Community Land Trust Technical Resources - Land in Common
Mutual Aid:
- Mutual Aid Resources - Mutual Aid Hub
- Freedge Yourself! - Freedge
- Tools and Learning Material - Mutual Aid Network/HUMANs Global Cooperative
- Mutual Aid Toolbox - Big Door Brigade
- How to create a mutual aid network - American Friends Service Committee
- Grassroots Disaster Relief Toolkit - Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
- Mutual Aid Legal Toolkit - Sustainable Economies Law Center
- Mutual Aid Tools & Resources - Mutual Aid
Intentional Communities:
Land and Agriculture:
Tool Libraries:
Co-ops:
- Anti-Racist Guide to Co-op Development - Solidarity Resource
- A Union Toolkit for Cooperative Solutions - New York City Central Labor Council
- Cooperative Transition For An Existing Business - Co-op Dayton
- Tools for Worker Cooperatives - Democracy at Work Institute
- Tools for Co-op Developers - Democracy at Work Institute
- Tools for Communities - Democracy at Work Institute
- Resource Guide - Democracy at Work Institute
- Shared Resource Library - NASCO
- Co-op Organizer's Handbook - NASCO
- Platform Co-op Resource Library - Platform Co-ops Consortium
- Co-op Business School - National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)
- Everything Co-op (podcast)
- L.A. Co-op Lab Academy - L.A. Co-op Lab
- Resource Library - Food Co-op Initiative
- Cooperative City Magazine
- Co-ops 101 - USDA
- Guide to Cooperative Community Lending - Salish Sea Cooperative Finance
- How to create a debt co-op to take back your student loans - Salish Sea Cooperative Finance
- International Cooperative Association (ICA) bylaw template - International Cooperative Association (ICA)
- Co-op U - Co-op Cincy
General
- Solidarity Resource ("open source tools for building a just economy")
- Democratic Governance Frameworks - Jain Family Institute
- The Commoner’s Catalog for Changemaking - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
- How to share: 350+ guides to help your community thrive - Post Growth Institute
- The Post Growth Encyclopedia - Post Growth Institute
- Map Your Neighborhood - Washington State Emergency Management Division
- From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation and Caring - Movement Generation
- Community-wealth.org
- Festival of What Works 2020 and 2021 (session recordings)
- GSEF e-Library - GSEF - Global Social Economy Forum
- Global Tapestry of Alternatives Webinars - Global Tapestry of Alternatives
- SELC Resources - Sustainable Economies Law Center
- Economics for Emancipation online course - Center for Economic Democracy
- Economics for Emancipation podcast - Center for Economic Democracy
- Next Economy Now podcast - LIFT Economy
- Media 2070
- Resources - Community Economies
- Resources - Wellbeing Economy Alliance
- Resources - ABCD (Asset-Based Community Development)
- Resources - Abundant Community
- Upstream podcast
- Community Action Guides - CTZNWELL
- Reflection and Organizing Resources - Solidarity Economy Principles
- In It Together - Interrupting Criminalization
- Creative Interventions Toolkit - Creative Interventions
- SolidarityNYC Resource Library - Solidarity NYC
- Community Organizing Tools - libcom.org