Move the Money: Nuts & Bolts: Making Grants to Cooperatively Owned Small Businesses

In GIA's vision for the future, the arts and culture sector embraces investment in various creative enterprises, including cooperatively-owned businesses. As this blog post highlights, grantmakers can play a key role in supporting small and cooperative businesses. Join Alana Kenagy (Artisans Cooperative), Mohit Mookim (Sustainable Economies Law Center), Ricardo Nuñez (Sustainable Economies Law Center), and Mastress Tara (Artisans Cooperative) on Wednesday, October 23, at 2pm EDT/11am PDT for a conversation on how grantmakers can contribute to solidarity economies by supporting cooperatively-owned creative businesses.

This 90-minute webinar will include interactive breakout rooms.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Live captioning will be available in English throughout the webinar. For additional accommodation requests, please contact GIA Program Manager Jaime Sharp, jaime@giarts.org, at least three (3) business days before the event.

Presenters

Alana S. Kenagy, Artisan Member, Artisans Cooperative

AL ( not to be confused with AI) is a jack-of-many trades, who grew up on a unconventional-conventional farm in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the ancestral lands of various bands of the Kalapuuya peoples. They are passionate about local economics, ethical and transparent trade, emotional intelligence, and exploring how we live integrated lives in a world and species context that is...complicated.

Mohit Mookim, Land Justice & Wealth Redistribution Attorney, Sustainable Economies Law Center

Mohit Mookim (they/them) is a land justice and wealth redistribution lawyer committed to abolition, landback, and anti-capitalist solidarity economies. Their work at the Law Center aims to liberate land from the speculative market by supporting collectives led by Black, Indigenous, and/or poor people. Mohit also leads the Law Center's wealth redistribution work, helping donors opt out of extractive financial systems and commit to grassroots social movements. They were raised in a big South Asian immigrant family on Lenapehoking (the NYC metro area) and have lived on Ohlone land in the Bay Area, CA for the last decade. They have a B.A. and J.D. from Stanford University.

Ricardo Samir Nuñez, Director of Economic Democracy and Staff Attorney, Sustainable Economies Law Center

Ricardo Samir Nuñez is a worker cooperative ecosystem development specialist supporting cultural practices, policies, organizations, and systemic changes that allow communities to build beyond the interlocking systems of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. He is currently the Director of Economic Democracy and a Staff Attorney at the Sustainable Economies Law Center where he collaborates on educational programs, legal services, policy advocacy, and regional and national ecosystem development to restore human labor to right relationship with people and the planet.

Mastress Tara, Artisans Cooperative, Board President & Workers Revolutionary Collective, Member-Organizer

Mastress is a grassroots community organizer with the Workers Revolutionary Collective focused on systemically humanizing and liberating themselves and others. They are an experimental process artist using multiple mediums to engage life as aholistic and embodied creative practice. As a skilled facilitator, multi-disciplinary artist, healer, teacher, visionary, and warrior of love and truth, Mastress is committed to quitting capitalism and getting free to thrive.