Public Banking Toolkit

Published on February, 34 2021

“By making banking a public utility, with expandable credit issued by banks owned by the people, the financial system can be made to serve the people, rather than people serving the banks. Credit flow can be released so that industry and free enterprise can thrive, and the economy can reach its full potential.”  
        —Ellen Brown, of Public Banking Institute. 

"We can either learn about money and discover and work for alternative ideas, or continue to be invisibly screwed by a system that disadvantages (us) and refuses accountability”.   
        —Rickey Gard Diamond, AnEconomyofOurOwn.org

Public Banking Toolket

Organize for a more just economic future with the
WILPF US PUBLIC BANKING TOOLKIT

Download this 45-page document here.    

This toolkit is an anthology of books and articles, resources for further reading, and materials you can use to get started organizing a new public bank in your city or state.   

  • You’ll find out what public banks are and what makes them different from the big privately owned transnational banks and investment firms.  
  • You’ll learn how public banking can offer advantages for moving the money to human needs and away from: 
    • War and war-profiteering, 
    • Climate-threatening extractive fossil fuel industry investment, 
    • Far flung investment that steals reserves from local small businesses, local home financing and affordable student loans.
  • You will: 
    • Fiind fact sheets and handouts, talking points and articles to share.  
    • Learn where public banking initiatives are started, and how you can help begin the dialogue locally or support initiatives which are already underway.  
    • Start with your own small group who’ll use this toolkit to learn more yourselves, then start working on a plan to move this initiative forward locally.  

Our Committee is always looking for excellent resources for more learning on our LEARN MORE pages. You can suggest additional materials to add to our toolkit.   

This collection of information is the work product of the Women, Money & Democracy Committee of WILPF US, and it’s a FREE download, because we want the Public Banking Toolkit to be used widely, without limitations or fees.  

You can support our work with a donation

Your donation to support the work of the WILPF US Women, Money & Democracy Committee and updates to this toolkit would be deeply appreciated. 
As little as a $10 donation would be great, or whatever you can afford.   
Donate online here.  

Or send a check. 
to Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom – US Section
PO Box 13075, Des Moines IA  50310.  
Please mark “Donation -W$D” in the check memo line.    
These donations are not tax deductible because WILPF US is a citizen advocacy organization and a portion of our W$D work is for organizing towards system change.