TOOLKIT FOR COOPERATIVE, COLLECTIVE,
AND
COLLABORATIVE CULTURAL
WORK

TOOLKIT

This toolkit includes emergent models and methodologies for collective work to aid in the efforts of cultural organizers.

The Color of the Capital Gap

REPORT

Boston Indicators, the research center at the Boston Foundation, in partnership with the Coalition for an Equitable Economy, analyzes the dynamics behind persistent racial disparities in access to capital and presents a set of bold and actionable solutions.

'Redlining'

POEM

"The Alabama-based poet Ashley M. Jones has a thing or two to say about “redlining” (aka housing discrimination)."

Boston's Payment In Lieu of Taxes Program

REPORT

Boston’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes Program: A Fair Deal for Boston Residents

Overthrowing the Food System’s Plantation Paradigm

ARTICLE

An op-ed in favor of justice for people incarcerated and indentured in agriculture.

Laura Flanders Show: A Public Bank For Public Good

VIDEO (25min)

Deyanira del Río from the New Economy Project, Linda Levy of the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union and Enlace's Cindy Martinez on the need for public banks.

Reinvest Report

REPORT

Divesting from Injustice & Reinvesting in Community

Are Prisons Obsolete?

BOOK

In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Angela Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end.

Black Towns, Black Futures:

VIDEO

Karla Slocum explains how the attractiveness of the Black town in the 21st century is left out of the temporally and spatially contained success narrative.

Solidarity Not Charity

REPORT

This report, commissioned by Grantmakers in the Arts, is about the ways that arts and culture grantmakers can engage in systems-change work.

Communities Over Commodities

REPORT

People-Driven Alternatives to an Unjust Housing System

Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective & Collaborative Cultural Work

TOOLKIT

This digital publication, created by Press Press, offers ways of grounding and building independent networks and collective work.