El Paso-based Accent Landscape Contractors is now a fully employee-owned enterprise. Apis & Heritage Capital Partners recently converted both Accent and Apex Plumbing in Denver to employee-owned businesses. Read more […]
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Six Myths About Cooperatives Debunked
Co-ops are a business structure, and like any business, they require hard work to be successful. They are unique in that they bring individuals together to solve issues they wouldn’t […]
Read More >Employee ownership proving a success at The Home Beautiful
BELMONT — Owning a business is different from being an employee. For about a year, employees of The Home Beautiful have experienced the joys and hard work of ownership. The […]
Read More >Ron Gaydos: Cooperatives make a difference traditional businesses don’t
Is there a future for cooperatives? Yes. And a growing one, serving increasing numbers of Americans in the way only cooperatives can. Read more on
Read More >New York cleaners create new path to entrepreneurship
When Julieta Aquino leaves for work in the New York City neighbourhood of East Harlem, she does so on her own terms. She gets to decide when she works and […]
Read More >Pandemic turns heads toward co-op business model
The co-op has seen a surge in interest during the pandemic. Why it matters: Advocates see the alternative business model of worker ownership as a path out of income inequality, […]
Read More >Plausible, Pessimistic, Optimistic, Transformative, Wild: Envisioning Our Futures
Clear-eyed appraisal of all possible outcomes—both good and bad—is crucial for strategic progress towards social transformation. Read more on Non Profit Quarterly
Read More >Atwater Village: Sowing Seeds of Economic Democracy
In a northeast corner of Los Angeles, not far from where I live, there’s a neighborhood called Atwater Village, and in that neighborhood an enterprise called the Proof Bakery does […]
Read More >Mass. lawmakers champion funding for worker-owned businesses
“It’s nice to know I am part of positive change in the world,” said O’Brien, the company’s founder, general manager and one of its owner-workers. The printing enterprise is a […]
Read More >Inside the Black and Queer-led Movement of Regenerative Winemaking
Justine Belle Lambright wants you to question everything you know about wine — where it comes from, whose labor produced it, and who gets to define it. Read more on […]
Read More >Reimagining Work Through A Shared Ownership Model
More Americans are saying this is no longer acceptable. Working people want to build stability and plan for the future of their families. They want to be hopeful about their […]
Read More >O’Donals becomes a worker-owned cooperative, preserving jobs and the evergreen legacy of beloved garden center
Rather than selling to an out-of-state buyer or shuttering the business, O’Donal decided to keep things close to home. He reached out to the Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) to explore […]
Read More >Angel Cakes Bakery becomes worker co-op, honoring legacy of slain owner
An Oakland bakery founded by the woman who was killed during a brazen robbery earlier this year has become a worker-owned cooperative. Angel Cakes Bakery employees said they became a […]
Read More >Worker cooperatives come to veterinary medicine
A self-described “political lefty,” Dally pondered the notion of converting the two-practice business to a worker cooperative — selling it to the employees, who would own and run it following […]
Read More >Artisans Cooperative: An Etsy alternative, owned and run by artists and makers
Artisans Cooperative just launched its unique marketplace as a multi-stakeholder cooperative for creators and shoppers. Read more on Shareable
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Service From The Heart: Acknowledging Outgoing Board Members Lucha and Emmanuel
At November’s Board of Directors meeting, we said farewell and see you soon to Emmanuel Pardilla of the New York City Network of Worker Co-ops and Lucha Luisa Silva of […]
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Worker Cooperative Policy Pulse – November 2023
The Worker Co-op Policy Pulse is a quarterly, bilingual (English/Spanish) space to hear advocacy updates from the USFWC network. You will learn about advances made in our advocacy work, new […]
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The USFWC joins The Rising Majority’s call to action to demand a ceasefire and stand in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza
The USFWC powers movements for racial justice and economic democracy. We recognize the intersectionality of this work and the pursuit of liberation and justice for all oppressed people. We believe […]
Read More >‘My humanity is denied’: Bay Area Palestinian Americans speak out on Israel-Hamas war coverage
”The apartheid system, the siege of a people for 17 years with no will to live, is the root of all this,’ restaurateur Reem Assil said of the air, land […]
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