The BALLE Local Economy Fellows are leaders with fierce love for their communities – a love that they’re each putting to work in ways that bring equity, opportunity, capital, and support to small local businesses and the diverse populations in every community they serve. They represent some of the most innovative local economic and community development […]
Hilary Abell joins the 2016 BALLE Fellows Read More »
The Cooperative Growth Ecosystem framework encourages diverse stakeholders in the field of community economic development to invest in inclusive economic development by fostering cooperatively owned enterprises within a broader entrepreneurial “ecosystem.”
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TS Designs, in Burlington NC, reinvented itself in the 1990s, from a T-shirt manufacturer printing for big apparel brands, to an apparel printing company that brings its own T-shirts to market with a transparent and local supply chain and cutting edge eco-friendly screen-printing. North Carolina’s first Certified B Corporation, TS Designs partners with local environmentally-
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In October of 2016, we co-hosted a national convening—a high energy day of learning and action planning around a new Cooperative Growth Ecosystem framework that we created with the Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI). The event brought nearly 60 participants from across the Bay Area, New York, Boston, Madison WI and Western North Carolina regions,
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