We reached our fundraising goal!

More than 100 members of our community donated to Sustainable Economies Law Center during our August grassroots campaign! We raised just over $28,000 to support our work this year!  

IMAGE ID: A collage of Law Center staff and community members in playful and joyful poses, with rainbow watercolors bleeding through the background. The words “THANK YOU” are centered in the middle of the collage.

We’re proud to redistribute $2,800 to our solidarity partner LUCI (Let us Contribute Initiative). A huge thank you to everyone who was able to contribute to support the work we do to strengthen and engage our community.And much gratitude  to our sponsors as well! These sponsoring organizations stepped up to make this campaign successful:

Recordings and Resources

During our campaign we created the following recordings and resources, which we’re now offering to our community and beyond. Please  forward and share these resources with anyone who could benefit from them. The recordings linked below qualify for MCLE Self-Study credits for lawyers. More MCLE recordings from our August grassroots fundraising campaign will be shared in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!

⚙️Worker Focused Cooperative Conversions ⚙️
A webinar providing political education on the history of worker co-op conversions and suggesting strategies to negotiate worker co-op conversions focused on the workers. This webinar is for lawyers and others  interested in supporting workers who are working to convert their places of employment into worker-owned cooperatives .

📜A Legal History of Whiteness 📜
This workshop addressed the legal and social history of whiteness, and how this history impacts us today on legal, economic, social, and spiritual levels, and how implicit  biases based on race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and other characteristics, undermine confidence in the legal system.

🧭WSDN and the Law 🧭
This webinar is about how workers in nonprofits can replace a disempowering hierarchy with collective control – distributing leadership roles to every worker – and the legal gray areas of worker self-direction in nonprofit organizations.

🏡 Ending Zoning's Focus on the Family 🏡
This webinar addressing zoning law’s exclusion of non-family groups, proposing policy changes to support inclusion of non-family groups, and showing how this policy change can support California’s housing production goals. 

Our Community Knows How to Party!

PHOTO ID: A college of images from Law Center events create lettering that spells “Community”. Underneath “Community”  are the words “over chaos”. At the bottom of the image are three photobooth photographs featuring Law Center staff Hope Williams, Itzel Nuño and Christine Hernandez. Each image features them smiling or posing their bodies in playful ways. 

We threw a party for our community and had a blast with everyone who came! There were tacos, face painting, flower pressing, a photo booth, DIY nail painting, astrology and tarot reading, and a game of loteria (Mexican bingo) with prizes, all with cumbia music in the background. A wide cross-section of our community showed up, including our labor/coop/small business partners (e.g., Prospera, Colmenar Cooperative Consulting, Karany Arts, LCCRSF), land and housing partners (e.g.,  Wood Street Commons), funders (e.g., San Francisco Foundation), and many other friends. Thank you to everyone who came! Enjoying good food and fun activities with you helped us cut through the chaos of these times. And thank you to ESM Studios for hosting us, to Vatos Tacos  for the delicious food, to Go Smile Photo Booth for the photo booth (hours of fun), and to pinch_i_lesli for the dope tunes!