Social Justice Impact Project

The mission of ISI’s Social Justice Impact Project (SJIP) is to secure social justice through the transformation of communities based on cooperativist, collectivist, and collaborative principles.

Our work focuses on 

• Uplifting communities that have been devalued, discounted and dispossessed under current systems of social, economic, and political power 
• Building new economies and wealth based on models of collective ownership that position communities as producers and not just consumers of good and services
• Aiming for ecological, cultural, and economic sustainability at the intersection of climate justice, racial justice, and land justice 

Our approach 

• Amplifying contemporary solutions that are rooted in historical and ancestral practices
• Using all forms of data to better define and design social justice campaigns and initiatives 
• Developing pilot models to test, analyze and share most impactful strategies  
• Recovering a portion of the institutional wealth that Black and Brown communities created to seed/catalyze social justice efforts that build communities’ financial self-sufficiency