Our Work

A mural by Langston Allston features four teenagers embracing, a mother and child embracing, and a woman offering them a blanket — Mural by Langston Allston at 20 S. Campbell Ave, courtesy of the Chicago Sun Times

Cooperative Futures

Beloved Community Incubator and Muslims for a Just Future jointly launched the first guaranteed income program with cooperative incubation. As the research partner, SERPL supports program design, implementation, process documentation, and analysis.

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Real Black Utopias

Stacey Sutton discusses her most recent book project, “Building Real Black Utopias,” an exploration of the infrastructures and ideologies that Black-centered, community-driven networks have built to strengthen solidarity economies

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Chicago Community Wealth Building Ecosystem

Originally incubated at UIC, the CCWBE provided the infrastructure for Chicago’s Community Wealth Building Initiative, a $15 million investment in emerging cooperative enterprises, via resource aggregation, grantee coordination, and research efforts

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