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Center for Economic Democracy

The Massachusetts nonprofit Center for Economic Democracy combines popular education, coalition support and resource movement toward community economic alternatives. The scope is its enabling model, not endorsement of all ideological positions or a claim of verified community control.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 73–83/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Popular-education materials, partnership facilitation and coalition support can help community organizations coordinate economic-governance work rather than rebuild capacity separately.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Story · Coordination · Gatekeepers — editorial, partial alignment.

CED explicitly combines economic narratives, coalition organizing and changing concentrated economic power. These are partial Story, Coordination and Gatekeepers connections, not verified checklist adoption or endorsement of every proposed economic system.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Build shared economic-democracy learning and local coalitions

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

4 / 4

The model explicitly seeks changes in economic ownership, resource allocation and institutional power rather than only individual relief.

Institutional reach

3 / 4

Popular education and coalition infrastructure can enable several local organizations and trans-local networks, though attributable reach was not audited.

Durability

2 / 4

Shared knowledge and coalitions can endure, but organizing, resource flows and institutional follow-through require continuing work.

Scalability

3 / 4

Reusable learning and partnership methods can spread; local trust, capital, political context and actual ownership arrangements remain constraints.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

No current costed marginal coalition or education bottleneck, replacement support or funding counterfactual was audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Working with frontline organizations and collective-participation values do not establish binding community control over the nonprofit’s budget, strategy or partner assets.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

For a defined coalition or education intervention, does CED support lead to independently verified changes in enforceable community economic decision rights compared with plausible alternatives, and who bears the costs or unintended consequences?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. The Massachusetts Center for Economic Democracy nonprofit, matched by name and locality in the fixed IRS snapshot, and its current education and coalition-support work. Partner projects and their assets are not additional assessments.

What remains uncertain

Current primary pages describe the organization and its Massachusetts partner work; the fixed September 8 IRS snapshot lists Center for Economic Democracy, EIN 47-3589804, in Jamaica Plain. That identity match is not an independent current tax-eligibility, financial or governance audit. The organization’s post-capitalist vision is its position, not an endorsement by this tracker or evidence of practical success. The website’s CC BY-NC-SA content terms are not an open-source software grant, and no code badge is assigned. Shared-power aspirations, regranting and coalition participation do not prove enforceable community ownership, durable economic benefit or causal policy change.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage