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Defining Community Wealth Building

Community wealth building (CWB) is a system-changing approach to community economic development that works to produce broadly shared economic prosperity, racial equity, and ecological sustainability through the reconfiguration of institutions and local economies on the basis of greater democratic ownership, participation, and control.

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Organization: The Democracy Collaborative
Date: 12/15/2022
Resource Type: Publication
Topic: Economic Justice

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