In a new article published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Sara Horowitz shares an ecosystem approach to investing in and supporting mutualist enterprises—from the ground up. Horowitz is founder of The Mutualist Society and author of Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up.

“You can feel it when you walk into a mutualist space for the first time—whether it’s a worker cooperative in North Carolina, a community garden, a labor-housing cooperative, a cohousing group in New York City, a nonprofit building in Portland, Oregon or a social cooperative in the Italian Alps.

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In these places, you just feel human in a way that you don’t when you’re one-click ordering on Amazon or strolling through Target,” Horowitz writes.

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