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Safeguarding Our Local Economies: Cooperative businesses on display at RI State House

Posted on May 5, 2022May 5, 2022

Fuerza Laboral and the P.O.W.E.R. Network hosted a fair at the Rhode Island State House on Tuesday featuring many of the business cooperatives, from a host of different industries, offering […]

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Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority could receive $1.2M in city funding

Posted on April 28, 2022April 28, 2022

Pittsburgh City Council is poised to allocate $1.2 million to the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority to fund several programs. The investment would include $150,000 for the Pittsburgh Task Force on […]

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Pittsburgh Hosts Nation’s First Citywide Task Force on Employee Ownership

Posted on April 28, 2021May 5, 2022

PA – Pittsburgh kicked off the nation’s first citywide task force by hosting a meeting on employee ownership on Sept. 5 at Chatham University. Pittsburgh created the task force on […]

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The profit maximizing corporate model must evolve

Posted on August 20, 2020August 20, 2020

One solution proposed by our organization, The Democracy Collaborative, is to create local economy preservation funds. These are holding companies that would invest equity in small and medium business enterprises, […]

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Building a Co-op Economy in Maine—And Perhaps in Your State Too

Posted on July 31, 2020July 31, 2020

Co-ops are businesses owned and governed by their members. Co-ops can form as start-ups or by converting from an existing small business. Co-ops fall into a few general categories. Consumer […]

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Cooperative Ownership: A Covid Recovery Strategy

Posted on July 24, 2020July 31, 2020

Greater community control over local economies can help to stave off the predators that—as we learned during the 2008 crisis—start to circle the most marginalized populations when disaster strikes. Co-ownership […]

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USFWC speaks at press conference with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Nydia Velázquez

Posted on June 15, 2018June 15, 2018

The House of Representatives passed the Main Street Employee Ownership act  (HR 5236), now it’s on to the Senate! Our Executive Director Esteban Kelly participated in a press conference on […]

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Worker-Owned Businesses Get More Support From D.C.

Posted on September 12, 2017September 12, 2017

“Federal officials and policymakers are putting more emphasis on worker-ownership of businesses. This support comes at a time when the cooperative model — a business owned and controlled by its workers, who […]

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After raising more than $9,000, the Maryland Co-op is back — with mac ‘n cheese (PS, there’s still time to donate!)

Posted on September 5, 2017September 6, 2017

“Immediately … we got a huge amount of support from the community,” said Chris Moulson, a worker-owner at the Co-op for the past four years. “People came out left and […]

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Employee Ownership and the Next System

Posted on August 31, 2017August 31, 2017

“In the near future, worker cooperatives will have a very essential role in converting existing small businesses where the founder wants to retire to broad based employee ownership. Any notion […]

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