2026 INITIATIVES.

LOCAL LABS. THE STATE-OF-PLAY IN THE STATES.

Power Lab exists to develop, amplify, and eventually build the moonshot alternatives to corporate structure and power. But ideas divorced from material reality are unsustainable and vulnerable to falling into well-tread patterns of injustice and inequity.

Before heading to the moon, we’re going back to school to ask and answer: What’s already been done and tried? What’s possible given existing law?

    • Database of existing redistributive pilot programs in states and local communities; lessons for replication and scale.

    • Database of historical efforts at state and local levels to alter fiduciary duty and shareholder primacy mandates + outline of major legal challenges.

    • Analysis of available policy, practice, and enforcement levers in specific local offices, from school board to mayoral.

    • Select model legislation and/or policy language for future community leaders.

DEMOCRACY FRONT LINES.

We know corporations — no matter the wishes, and occasional actions, of their leaders — are not structurally set up to engage in meaningful collective resistance or democratic safeguarding. But what restrictions, obligations, and duties specifically limit their capacity to reliably engage in this work?

What are the top recommendations to policymakers for incentivizing companies within their jurisdictions and communities to amplify, rather than distract from or dampen, popular collective action?

    • Survey/report on existing structural and legal limitations.

    • Recommendations for policymakers, drawing on existing models, pilot programs, CSR, and insights from past and current corporate political activity.

    • If justified by findings, proposal to practitioner groups on how to push legal jurisprudence in this area (whether in the form of rulemaking, impact litigation, or other experimentation).