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The goal of Grassroots Economic Organizing is to contribute towards the creation of a systematic body of practical knowledge about democratic economic alternatives and the solidarity economy. In this spirit, the articles and resources on our website are grouped into a number of overlapping categories. Please follow the links below to more detailed category lists.

ECONOMIC SECTORS The basic building-blocks of economic life: healthcare, housing, food, community, transportation, manufacturing, and more. Articles in this category highlight practices and possibilities for how these key realms of society can be organized in a solidarity economy

STRUCTURES & INSTITUTIONS The diverse array of organized forms that a solidarity economy can and does take: cooperatives, community currencies, land trusts, collectives, and more. These articles detail the inner workings of many of these structures.
NUTS & BOLTS: Practices & Tools These materials focus on concrete practices and strategies that we can use to build solidarity economies in our lives and communities, and to strengthen our organizing and our organizations. These materials focus on concrete practices and strategies that we can use to build solidarity economies in our lives and communities, and to strengthen our organizing and our organizations.
 ORGANIZING & MOVEMENT BUILDING Articles & resources about making connections between diverse struggles & movements, building grassroots power & organization, and developing social change strategy
STRUGGLES & MOVEMENTS Articles that link work for economic alternatives with struggles for social, economic and ecological justice.
 VISIONS & MODELS Imaginative possibilities & aspirations about how economic & social life could & should be organized.
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