Community Education

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New Economy Project provides tailored education and training to community groups and low-income New Yorkers on financial justice, solidarity economics, and other topics. Our workshops are highly participatory and serve as springboards for economic justice organizing and advocacy in NYC.

Contact us to learn more or to request a workshop for your staff and/or community members.

Financial Justice / Know Your Rights

New Economy Project conducts community know-your-rights education — in English, Spanish and other languages — on a range of financial justice topics, including fair banking access, avoiding predatory lending, debt collection, credit reports, and more. Our curriculum is geared to low-income, immigrant, and older New Yorkers — alerting them to their rights and options, and connecting them to our free financial justice hotline and other resources for further assistance.

We also provide capacity building training for community groups and advocates. These training sessions equip organizations to train community members on financial justice matters and refer people to legal and other support.

Cooperative Economics…and More

New Economy Project’s core curriculum, Building a New Economy: A People’s Guide, provides a framework for understanding our current economy and charting a path to transformative solutions — including worker and financial cooperatives, community land trusts, and public banking — that advance racial equity and democratic community control.

Our New Economy Workshop Series is back in 2024!
The annual workshop series brings organizers together from across New York City to learn about pressing issues and strategies to achieve systemic change. (Check out a prior workshop series, and stay tuned for our fall 2024 lineup!)