Launch of the racial equity community innovators lab (recoilab)
Racial Equity Community Innovators Lab (RECoI Lab) is a five year initiative focused on developing and scaling new sustainable and future-focused models for place-based organizing in our increasingly technological world. We believe local and placed-based power-building provides an important pathway to systemic change, community economic empowerment, building up of working-class agency, and fostering essential social capital in Black and Brown communities. But their long-term sustainable impact will rely on field infrastructure to support increasing capacity along a few fronts: building bridges between traditional local and placed-based organizations and those utilizing technology-enabled communities/tools/platforms to build power, exploration of independent revenue streams and mission-aligned capital, and becoming more future-focused in order to stay ahead of curve of the implications of technology and digital economy.
To this end, our work is centered around:
We are currently incubating two projects:
Growing the public interest technology and responsible tech fields
Reforming shareholder capitalism and aligning capital markets towards greater social impact and racial equity
Playbook for building ethical/responsible technology companies, with the end goal of fostering an ecosystem of founders, startup executives, technologists, VCs, and academics to help accelerate the shift away from short-term, shareholder-driven capitalism: Exploring strategies for accelerating the mainstream adoption of responsible company-building practices in technology-driven organizations.
Reimagining labor organizing and economic narratives in the 21st century
Building capacity in the labor organizing and movement spaces: Supporting workers, unemployed workers, labor unions, and labor organizing spaces develop new strategies for building voice and power in order to support a more equitable and inclusive 21st Century economy
