Funding Opportunities at People’s Economy Lab

The People’s Economy Lab is led by and centers communities of color in our region that experience disproportionate harm in this extractive economy. We convene community leaders, workshop transformative ideas, and build better economic models. We push the boundaries of what’s possible for a Just Transition to local, community-centered economies that are equitable, democratic, and regenerative. 

Our communities are facing systemic racism, income and wealth disparities, the climate crisis, the Covid pandemic, all built upon an economic system set up to extract resources and power from communities of color, immigrants and refugees, women, and other marginalized communities toward the enclosure of wealth for a few. To meet the challenge, we must transition from an extractive economy, defined by exploitation, consumerism and rooted in white supremacy, to a regenerative economy that is cooperative, democratic, resilient, and just.