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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Cooperation is at the heart of a new women-owned quilting business on the Pine Ridge Reservation through Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation. The Owíŋža Quilters Cooperative launched earlier this month and […]

ATLANTA — Ormond Ashby bounces into the unheated, under-construction home of Café ULUon a chilly January day with a bayonet saw and an air of enthusiasm. The 76-year-old retiree is […]

Faced with a zombie apocalypse, dogs need to rescue “hoomans” from being eaten alive: this is the plot of the latest board game developed by worker co-operative Make Big Things. Based […]

Two bills on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) have passed without dissent in the Small Business Committees in the House and the Senate, and both have bipartisan support. By unanimous vote, the […]

A food co-op created to offer healthy produce in an area with no grocery stores has been so successful it is doubling the size of its premises. Mandela Foods Cooperative, in […]

Several co-ops have been included in the list of world’s 250 biggest retailers, compiled by professional services network Deloitte. Deloitte’s 21st annual Global Powers of Retailing report is based on publicly available data for […]

The question came up at a recent event on employee-owned businesses: will this trend of worker ownership ever spread to the tech world? Eager to offer insights, Maria Cardenas, a […]

When Susanne Ward and her late partner Patrick Reilley moved to Rockland from California in 1991, they knew it wasn’t easy to make a living in midcoast Maine and they […]

ROCKLAND — The pending sale of Rock City Coffee and Rock City Coffee Roasters to their workers will assure the continuation of the longtime downtown businesses. Susanne Ward, who founded the […]

Exhausted personally and politically by the current state of the world? Or just need a distraction — something to lighten up the remaining days of winter? Here’s a recommendation: Play […]

Worker cooperatives are a viable alternative to corporate capitalism, yet they are rarely brought up in political discourse, two speakers at a Harvard Law Forum event argued Wednesday. Nathan Schneider, […]

To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Co-op News asked women co-operators to share their experiences in the movement. Themed Press For Progress, the day is a call to […]

A decade ago, there were more than 50 liquor stores in West Oakland and zero full-service grocery stores. But in 2009, community members launched Mandela Foods Cooperative, a health food […]

Worker-owned agricultural cooperatives played a large role in creating a vibrant San Marcos economy throughout the last century. 218 Cooperative members were inspired to revive the tradition… San Marcos, TX […]

“If you’re a boomer business owner planning for succession, you can’t afford to overlook the employee ownership option,” writes Lori Shepherd in Entrepreneur. At NPQ, we have written about the […]