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 […]
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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 […]
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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#WCNC18 Plenary: Shaping the Future of Work
Speakers: Jenny Ramirez, HR Director for California Harvesters, an employee trust farm labor company in California’s Central Valley Tomás Durán, President of Concerned Capital in Los Angeles, which works to […]
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