REGENERATING THE CITY
NEWBURGH ADDRESSES POVERTY FROM THE INSIDE OUT
After witnessing how top-down initiatives failed to address poverty, Newburgh's ESPRI creates partnerships with trusted local leaders that make them architects of community rebirth.
DESIGNING THE GREATER HUDSON RIVER VALLEY FOODWAYS
How people and programs are co-creating the Greater Hudson Valley farm-to-institution pipeline.
HOT BREAD KITCHEN
Under NYC's Metro North Railroad's elevated tracks, hope is rising along with what's baking in the ovens as women acquire skills to launch careers and fledging entrepreneurs grow businesses in one of the world's most competitive food capitals.
BCOOP's QUEST
Samira Rajan is an intuitively regenerative banker — helping BCoop’s members build and retain more their hard-earned wealth, and keep it circulating, inside the neighborhoods the credit union serves.
EPLESLANG
A self-sustaining social enterprise that turns the untapped potential of underutilized human resources and wasted local assets into productive work and a product of community value.
GENESEE CO-OP FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Founded in 1981 Genesee Co-Op Federal Credit Union has evolved to serve a broad constituency, as it lends with increasing intentionality and inventiveness to support its regional economy.
THE REDD ON SALMON STREET
The Redd on Salmon Street—located in the Central Eastside industrial district of Portland, Oregon—is a food hub unlike any other, and with a wildly ambitious mission: to make regeneratively produced, locally sourced food a mainstay of the regional diet.
BED-STUY FRESH & LOCAL
A new-generation corner grocer with a big heart brings healthy, affordable foods to its neighborhood, and converts to a worker ownership.
LIVING BREAKWATERS
A storm resiliency project on Staten Island that will be engage a community whose economy and natural systems have been damaged, not just by a superstorm, but by the march of "progress."
BRONX COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
A promising exemplar of truly regenerative, scalable economic development in progress, blending the intuitiveness of a community’s grassroots with more formal systemic approaches to building lasting community wealth and well being.
CO-CYCLE
In the summer of 2012 and 2013 a group of college students and recent grads bicycled across America to visit cooperatives, to hone their own cooperative skills, and to reimagine the country they were about to inherit.
GROCYCLE
A UK "community interest company" grows mushrooms on a small scale by capturing waste streams from breweries and cafes in Totnes.
BRONX COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
Guided by a deep intention to discover the essence of the people, resources, and place of the Bronx, BCDI enables members of a New York City community, judged one of the poorest by financial wealth standards, to co-create their regeneration.
FOODLAB DETROIT’S KITCHEN CONNECT
There are quite a few kitchen incubators in the country, but what makes this one special is the many creative and intentional ways it is bringing together, through the shared love of food, a diverse urban community.
EVERGREEN COOPERATIVES
A remarkable experiment in cooperative-ownership and anchor-institution-based “green” job creation in Cleveland’s inner city unleashes the energy of workers to become actors in history in their own lifetimes.
THE MANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE
An unlikely partnership among leaders of the public sector, organized labor, and small manufacturers ushers in the next regenerative industrial age in an inner city Chicago polytechnic high school.