Economic Resilience Pack
Tools for communities facing economic pressure, including job discrimination, business destruction, credit denial, or wealth extraction.
When to use this kit
Economic pressure can take many forms: job discrimination, failing businesses, denied loans, and wealth extraction. This bundle helps communities build more resilient economic infrastructure through community finance, skill exchange, local business networks, and collective purchasing power.
Included tools
- Micro-Enterprise Financial Visibility
Track what you buy. Track what you sell. Know your actual profit.
- Community Situation Assessment
Four columns. What's working. What's not. How to improve. What you'll do in two weeks.
- Community Needs Empathy Map
Map what your community hears, sees, thinks, feels, and says. Then map their pains.
- Rotating Savings Circle
Banks won't lend to you. Create your own capital through trust, the ancient system that predates their institutions.
- skill swap network
- Buy Local Campaigns
Every pound spent at a chain store leaves your community.
- Collective Purchasing Power
One family's shopping is ignorable. A thousand families shopping together is economic power. Aggregate to negotiate.
- micro enterprise incubator
Why these tools work together
Financial Visibility gives a clear picture of the numbers, and the Situation Assessment creates a regular point for reflection. The Empathy Map helps identify community needs. Savings circles, skill swaps, and buy-local campaigns reduce dependence on outside markets; collective purchasing and incubators can build local capacity over time.