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Building a Regional Solidarity Economy in DC Maryland and Virginia Beloved Community Incubator is a solidarity economy movement organization incubator lender and worker selfdirected nonprofit in the Washington DC metro region. BCI focuses on building a regional solidarity economy that centers people especially poor and workingclass workers and people of color over profit. We provide incubation for workerowned cooperatives as well as back end support for cooperatives collectives and solidarity economy projects through the BCI Network. We offer nonextractive lending to local cooperatives through the DC Solidarity Economy Loan Fund and organize for worker power and collective control of resources in DC through community organizing broadbased campaigns and mutual aid.