About

Solidarity Economy
Incubation for
Zero Emissions

(or, SEIZE for short)

Like it says above, SEIZE stands for Solidarity Economy Incubation (feel free to add the words for Zero Emissions at the end if you’re an acronym purist).

We are a member-based democratic organization that serves a thriving community of solidarity economy organizers and entrepreneurs in Montreal.

is to advance the transition from capitalism to a more sustainable, democratic, and human-centric economy. We aim to do this through collective capacity building and solidarity entrepreneurship.

New collective enterprises are usually suffocated by the reality of the market they’re trying to enter. They can’t grow, so they can’t displace the extractive and profiteering enterprises that currently dominate almost every sector.

On the other hand, the social solidarity economy movement is much stronger than we think—especially in Quebec.

Our goal is not only to uplift new collective enterprises through funding, expertise, and networks— but also to plug them into the global movement for economic transformation. This is how we give collective enterprises in their infant stages ground to stand on and air to breathe.

With some support, these enterprises can grow in strategic sectors—eventually displacing the private enterprises that treat people and the planet like replaceable cogs in the machine. Sector by sector, brick by brick, SEIZE is focused on transforming the economic system.

View our Strategic Directions