“I would love people to understand better is what it means to work in a cooperative and to be a worker owner specifically. Being a worker-owner is a really powerful […]
Read More >April 2018
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 […]
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