A cooperative business, arts, and investment ecosystem built by and for Boston's working-class Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. Takes its name from "ujima" (Swahili for collective work and responsibility). Runs a democratically governed community investment fund that residents and members vote on, alongside business support and cultural organizing, aiming to build local economic democracy rather than rely on extractive outside capital. A New Economy Coalition member organization.
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Every Monday at 12pm (Boston time), online. RSVP on Ujima's events page. · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026
A weekly open office-hours session from Boston Ujima Project where current and aspiring food business owners can meet Ujima's Restaurant Fellow, restaurateur Biplaw Rai, for candid conversation and advice on the realities of running a food business — startup challenges, logistics and staffing, community engagement, branding, and growth. Online; RSVP through Ujima's events page.
Every Wednesday from 6pm ET, in person in Boston; the venue varies, so check Ujima's events page for each week's location and RSVP. · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026
Boston Ujima Project's weekly member meetings, open to the public and dedicated to financial and political education and to Ujima's member working groups. Autumn 2026 sessions are a series on money — a talkback on "hard currencies" with Dr. Jared Ball and Dr. Erika Brown, "Monetary Trust" with Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, and a history of money with legal historian Christine Desan, author of Making Money — alongside hands-on workshops such as a mending session. Venue changes week to week (several are at COOP Social Club in Jamaica Plain); Ujima posts each one on its events page. Past sessions are on Ujima's YouTube channel.
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Re-checked 2026-10-21 for the recurrence backfill: #UjimaWednesdays (weekly, 6pm, open to the public) and Biplaw Mondays (weekly open restaurant office hours, online) are now recurring events. The individual autumn 2026 #UjimaWednesdays talks (Hard Currencies, Monetary Trust, History of Money) are sessions of that series, not separate records. The events page's link to its own #UjimaWednesdays page (ujimaboston.com/ujimawednesdays) returned 404 on 2026-10-21. Member-team meetings (Faith in Solidarity — formerly Anchor Institution Organizing — and Publications) are still left out as aimed at voting members rather than newcomers. The "Community Events" section lists other groups' events, which belong to those groups, not Ujima. No Slack, Discord, or forum: members engage through in-person and hybrid meetings plus a one-way newsletter, which doesn't meet the Forum bar.