CA Intervenor Compensation Program – public advocates can also get paid for their costs to intervene. Saves 14x as much money as it costs in reduced rates, not to mention equity and justice, health, climate
The Financial Cooperative calls its task “nonextractive” or “regenerative finance.” The goal is to give control of capital to communities that have been most marginalized, but also to funnel capital into those communities.
“We live in a world where the surplus of human labor is accumulated by individuals for the purpose of increasing their own level of luxury, privilege, and power.”
It believes in cooperative control of community financial institutions and set itself up as a cooperative nonprofit, with each participating community getting a say in how the whole operates. The founding members of the cooperative are longtime leaders in the movement with years of experience in all areas of “impact” investment and cooperative finance: The Working World, the Southern Reparations Loan Fund, the Climate Justice Alliance, and the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy are all founding member organizations.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/good-money/2018/12/04/black-owned-banks-keep-community-money-where-it-belongs/ and https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/world-we-want/2020/02/19/public-banks-infographic/
