Those of us working in the community sector need to get out of our issue-based silos and come to events like this and take the time to be amongst people who are not used to being together and start having the conversations that lead to new possibilities.

After previous recessions, the long term unemployed, those on low incomes and the people living in our poorest communities have often been last in line to benefit from recovery.  As a result, they are less able to play their part in sustaining that recovery.

SolidarityNYC’s latest report Growing a Resilient City: Possibilities for Collaboration in New York City’s Solidarity Economy presents their vision for an interconnected economy in the wake of Hurricane Sandy where communities take control of their own development in a grassroots, bottom-up, and democra