When Leah Penniman and her family founded Soul Fire Farm, in Petersburg, New York in 2011, they had a vision of a multi-racial, sustainable farming organization that would run food […]
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Making business democratic: The Cooperation Group gives Detroiters avenues for collective ownership
B. Anthony Holley and Lisa Stolarski have vivid memories of their first time meeting. Stolarski, who had been the executive director for the National Cooperative Business Association’s domestic development program […]
Read More >Worker-owned Co-ops are Coming for the Digital Gig Economy
A domestic cleaning worker in New York City faces a choice. She might decide to register on a platform like Handy or Taskrabbit, where she can accept jobs on a […]
Read More >Evergreen Cooperative Laundry to manage second plant
Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperative Laundry will triple its workforce after taking over management of the Cleveland Clinic’s laundry facility. The new plant will brings more than 100 new employees into the […]
Read More >Want Better Working Conditions in Restaurants? Build a Co-op
At Blue Scorcher in the seaside town of Astoria, Oregon, customers count on a few things. There’s, of course, the golden braids of challah and the crisp loaves of sourdough, […]
Read More >More U.S. businesses are becoming worker co-ops: Here’s why
In 1982, Linda and Gregory Coles were struggling to find a sitter for their 18-month-old daughter. After a year of searching, they just decided to open their own daycare, and […]
Read More >Rock City Coffee Roasters in Maine Is Now a Worker-Owned Cooperative
When one of the owners of the Rock City Coffee in Rockland, Maine, sadly passed from cancer in 2010, the remaining partner in the business, Susanne Ward, then in her 60s, began […]
Read More >Health co-operatives are on the rise, IHCO report finds
A new report by the International Health Co-operative Organisation (IHCO) has found that the sector has grown in importance over the past 20-30 years. The research, which looks at co-operatives from 13 […]
Read More >Contributors Worker cooperatives can be a boon for rural Maine’s economy
Last winter while talking with a friend, the conversation turned to the lack of employment opportunities in central Maine. A parent with an advanced degree in physics, he poignantly remarked, […]
Read More >Employee Ownership’s Presence Grows in Home Healthcare
Employee ownership in the healthcare industry can help retiring business owners cash out while benefiting their communities, explains Katrina Kazda, a senior business strategist at the ICA Groupwriting for HomeCare […]
Read More >Education case study: The Co-operative College
The Co-operative College offers unique access to a wealth of information and research that can be used to develop learning resources – from archive materials detailing co-operative heritage to current […]
Read More >Lake Area Technical Institute joins S.D.F.U. for College Conference on Cooperatives
HURON — Traditionally, when cooperatives come to mind most people think agriculture. For Bailey Miles and other students attending the College Conference on Cooperatives (CCOC) in Minneapolis that is far from […]
Read More >Lake Area Technical Institute joins SD Farmers Union for College Conference on Cooperatives
HURON, S.D. — Traditionally, when cooperatives come to mind most people think agriculture. For Bailey Miles and other students attending the College Conference on Cooperatives (CCOC) in Minneapolis that is […]
Read More >U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Tours Employee-Owned Business and Meets with Workers in Stevens Point
Senator Baldwin’s Worker Owned Wealth Act aims to promote employee ownership business models like Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) or worker cooperatives that give workers a seat at the table and help […]
Read More >Commentary: Bill would help retiring business owners transfer ownership to workers
As with Susanne Ward, employee ownership can often provide business owners the best chance to secure their retirement, while sustaining the jobs and economic activity our communities depend on. In […]
Read More >USFWC Board Member Mai Nguyen named in the “Grist 50 2018” List
Meet the people who are cooking up the boldest, most ambitious solutions to humanity’s biggest challenges. We like to call these forward-thinking phenoms “Fixers.” They are leaders who will actually […]
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Workers to Owners: The Story of A Child’s Place
The story of A Child’s Place, a childcare business in New York, produced by our sister organization, the Democracy at Work Institute
Read More >Worker Ownership and The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2018
The report on the March 23rd Omnibus Appropriations Act includes language on worker ownership. Last Friday, President Trump signed into law the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018“. Why is this special […]
Read More >Quilting Co-op is First Social Enterprise Project at Thunder Valley
Cooperation is at the heart of a new women-owned quilting business on the Pine Ridge Reservation through Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation. The Owíŋža Quilters Cooperative launched earlier this month and […]
Read More >Drink Your Coffee Black-Owned
ATLANTA — Ormond Ashby bounces into the unheated, under-construction home of Café ULUon a chilly January day with a bayonet saw and an air of enthusiasm. The 76-year-old retiree is […]
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