FinCap Co·Op winners at MAIA | Alternative Ownership | Sleeping Giant Rises

Beyond bandaids: How cooperatives, employee ownership, and community-driven capital are building a new foundation for post-extractive economics. Evidence-based alternatives in action.

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Hilary Callaghan
July 09, 2025

This week: the system stress points that could accelerate change beyond current projections, why crisis often creates the opening that incremental reform can't, and the new experiments emerging from the edges that might actually scale. The gap between what's possible and what's happening is real - but so is the fact that systems change faster under pressure than anyone predicts.

From cooperatives entering their UN-declared year to employee ownership gaining trillion-dollar recognition, the infrastructure for post-extractive economics is taking shape.

This isn't about tweaking the current system, it's about demonstrating that entirely different approaches work better for everyone involved.

Here's what's unfolding:

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