The New Jersey/New York Center for Employee Ownership at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) and the Democracy at Work Institute today announced a new program to […]
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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 >Can Employee Ownership Preserve Durham’s Legacy of Black Businesses?
Pettigrew is one of three city employees serving as fellows in the Shared Equity in Economic Development (SEED) Fellowship, developed by the National League of Cities and the Democracy at Work Institute […]
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 >Employee-Owned Businesses a Tool for Equitable Growth
ncome and wealth inequality, exploitative working conditions and displacement are critical issues faced by communities across the country. These challenges require strategies that create both stable employment and access to […]
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 >Worker Cooperative Resolution Passes Unanimously in Cook County
The Cook County measure, in which the Cook County Board of Commissioners asserted its support for the development and growth of worker cooperatives, passed unanimously on October 17th. Getting legislation passed in […]
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 >Workers Economy Encuentro- Nov. 8-10 in Mexico City
The Workers Economy network is a global network of unions, labor studies centers, cooperatives, activists, and other organizations focused on building worker control. They convene periodic international and regional gatherings. […]
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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Why the cooperative model needs to be at the heart of our new economy
In 1903, an American entrepreneur, Charles Boettcher, founded the Great Western Sugar Company in Colorado, and opened two beet sugar refineries outside of Denver. Over the course of the 20th […]
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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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Meet your new Regional Board Directors / Conoce a tus Respresentes Regionales en la Mesa Directiva
Continuar en Español The 2018 USFWC Regional Rep Board of Director election results are in! We thank the membership, the board, and our nominees for participating in one of […]
Read More >Worker Co-ops Catch on in Philadelphia
Last fall, Colombia native Luis Eduardo Lozano and four other immigrant day laborers, tired of the indignities of scant, irregular hours and wage theft from employers, formalized the PWA Handymen […]
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