The community enterprises emerge from the social solidarity economy movement and can be considered non-profit organizations but are more characterized by being worker-based organizations, i.e., without an owner. These organizations include cooperatives, associative enterprises, and popular economy organizations, among others. In Cherán, some of these enterprises include a communal sawmill, a tree nursery for reforestation, a stone mine, and a rainwater harvesting system to supply drinking water to the village – which is the biggest one in Latin America. They aim to reconcile the community’s economic reliance on forest resources while ensuring environmental sustainability and recovery. One of the conditions is that any project implemented must be sustainable. They also have an independent radio station, "Radio Fogata," which is coordinated by the youth and reaches other communities.