Finance & Business – The Rising Foundation https://therisingfoundation.org Cooperating for a Better Tomorrow Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:18:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://therisingfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/favicon2.png Finance & Business – The Rising Foundation https://therisingfoundation.org 32 32 Belltower Commoning https://therisingfoundation.org/2025/11/12/composters-2/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:10:27 +0000 https://therisingfoundation.org/?p=3074 Belltower Commoning is a multi-stakeholder real estate cooperative in the Rondout Valley of Ulster County, NY. Our vision is to create community-owned and governed spaces that are free from speculative market pressures and nurture the local community and ecology. This initiative seeks to foster community self-determination and stewardship by developing real estate practices that promote connection, liberation, and care. Ultimately, it intends to provide secure access to land and property for all, especially those systematically excluded, and inspire new models of non-extractive relationships with communities and the Earth. We intend this to serve as a model for development elsewhere and will openly share our process and resources with the movement.

]]> Sustainable Economies Law Center https://therisingfoundation.org/2024/12/12/sustainable-economies-law-center/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:05 +0000 https://therisingfoundation.org/?p=2907 Based on extensive evaluations, feedback and discussions with our community partners in the Nonprofit Democracy Network, the Sustainable Economies Law Center came to recognize that one of the most substantial barriers to successful democratic self-management within social justice movement organizations are internal conflicts and the lack of skill and capacity to manage those conflicts. To create self-organizing, Sociocratic and democratic, thriving organizations, we need to build our conflict resilience skills and capacities. Through the Rising Foundation’s generous support, we were able to create and fund the Conflict Resilience Council for solidarity economy and social movement organizations.

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The Currency Designers Guild (CDG) creates a community of practice for individuals to co-create and prototype regenerative currencies and incentive systems in service towards a more equitable, regenerative human ecosystem. CDG is an initiative by Commons Engine to create the first decentralized community of practice for currency designers committed to the creation of regenerative economies at the local, bioregional and global levels. The mission of the CGD is to:

  • Create an ongoing dialogue and community of practice with regenerative currency designers who are committed to creating real-world experiments.
  • Explore, prototype and field test structures that empower the emergence of socio-economic systems that contribute to greater abundance, equality and freedom.

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