Alex Jarrett says he’s hopeful about the city’s future, and he’s running for the Ward 5 seat on the City Council to enact policies that will keep it on that […]
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Co-ops: A vision for workers to be their own bosses
Las Visionarias is an all-female catering cooperative in Chicago where workers are also the owners of the business and share in its profits. Created by the Chicago Reporter
Read More >Building Bridges: Spectrum Cable Strikers Propose Forming A Workers’ Cooperative To Take Over The Cable Franchise
Nevertheless despite the toll the strike has taken on these intrepid workers keep on keeping on, and have even, with the support of their union been exploring the creation of […]
Read More >Worcester co-op prints for progressives such as Warren, Biden, Ocasio-Cortez
On the top floor of an old industrial building at 41 Jackson St., steps from a factory where garment workers a hundred years ago made women’s corsets, a printers’ cooperative […]
Read More >What if Workers Owned Their Workplaces?
Can good values be good business, too? For generations, the cooperative movement has been answering with a resounding “Yes!” After a surge of entrepreneurial fervor following the 2007 economic collapse, […]
Read More >Changing its tune: Downtown Sounds to become worker-owned cooperative after retirement of founder Joe Blumenthal
“It’s really an institution in the community,” Blumenthal said this week. Blumenthal, 70, opened the store in 1976, with no musical background. Yet his father told him that if he […]
Read More >Fashion production co-op run by refugee, immigrant women to open in Chicago
“…Now, Mercy — who asked that we not use her last name — is one of three founding members of Blue Tin Production, a fashion production co-op run by immigrant […]
Read More >A National Worker Co-op Financing Network Emerges
Connelly and others recognized that the community needed to take the lead in its own revival—or else risk having others develop the community, but in ways that promote gentrification and […]
Read More >The Co-op That’s Keeping Community Money Out of Big Banks
Connelly’s credit union is part of a strategy by a nonprofit consortium of investors, financial organizations, and community development groups known as the Financial Cooperative to set up locally controlled […]
Read More >Nonprofit helps employees take hold of reins as business owners retire
“I’ve been approaching retirement for a long time,” Adams said with a chuckle. “I couldn’t imagine being 80 and carrying on at the same level, but how else do you […]
Read More >This new fund will help retiring baby boomers turn their businesses into worker co-ops
In May, the Evergreen Cooperatives, a network of worker-owned businesses in Cleveland, took over operations of a laundry facility owned by the Cleveland Clinic. On the surface, it was a […]
Read More >New Cleveland Fund Will Acquire Businesses and Sell Them Back to Workers
Tameka Thomas had returned to society after a five-year prison sentence, and a month after her release, she landed a job with Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland with help from a re-entry transition […]
Read More >Worker Ownership Initiative Launched by Nonprofit Lender in Nation’s Capital
Last week, a nonprofit community development financial institution (CDFI), the Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF), which has operated in the nation’s capital since 1987, launched its DC Employee Ownership Initiative to help existing worker-owned business […]
Read More >Coalition Launches Rural Employee Ownership Transition Initiative in Maine
Two months ago, NPQ profiled an initiative supported by US Department of Agriculture (USDA) grants to encourage retiring business owners to sell their businesses to their employees in Oregon, Washington. Now a […]
Read More >Worker Ownership Initiative Launched by Nonprofit Lender in Nation’s Capital
The initiative will also provide lending support not just to businesses that convert to employee ownership, but to businesses that launch as worker cooperatives. An example cited at the forum […]
Read More >Listen to the Upstream Podcast on Worker Cooperatives — Islands within a Sea of Capitalism
Listen to the Upstream Podcast on Worker Cooperatives — Islands within a Sea of Capitalism In the second episode of the series on worker cooperatives, Upstream builds on the conversation […]
Read More >Philly wants to teach retiring business owners how to sell — to their workers
At least 20 percent of the stores on the corridor are owned and operated by black people who aren’t immigrants. The only corridor that rivals it in terms of percentage […]
Read More >A co-op grocery comes to a Dayton food desert
On the corner of Salem Avenue and Superior Street in West Dayton sits a vacant building with signs advertising a former artist supply and picture framing shop. By the end […]
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More than a coffee shop, Collective Avenue co-op is a nurturing place for the Lynwood community
Afternoons at Collective Avenue Coffee are about as far removed from a typical third-wave coffee shop as you can get. The worker-owned cooperative cafe, founded by Kateri Gutierrez and Jonathan […]
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2018 Co-ops and Cooperators of the Year
Each year, the USFWC recognizes standout cooperators and co-ops that embolden our movement and lead the way toward workplace democracy. Chosen by our board of directors, with these recognitions we […]
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