Our Harvest is the first union worker-owned cooperative catalyzed by the Cincinnati Union Coop Initiative (CUCI). The Co-op farms on multiple properties in Cincinnati and sells its produce through CSA programs and other markets. Our Harvest is committed to creating family-sustaining jobs, producing sustainably-grown produce, building a food hub to strengthen the local food system and increase access to healthy food, and sustaining these efforts by training new farmers. Read more about Our Harvest...
Interfaith Business Builders is a faith-based nonprofit aiming to develop, support, and promote employee-owned, cooperative businesses in Cincinnati’s low-income neighborhoods. In 1995, it launched its first enterprise, Cooperative Janitorial Services, which now has 15 worker-owners. Most recently, it has been supporting the development of Community Blend, a fair-trade, co-op coffee shop. Read more about Interfaith Business Builders ...
Aiming to create jobs that are family supporting and to improve Greater Cincinnati’s local economy, the Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative (CUCI) focuses on catalyzing the development of Cincinnati-based worker-owned cooperatives. Read more about Cincinnati Union Coop Initiative...
Research Director Steve Dubb and Research Associate Sarah McKinley will moderate a panel on community wealth building in Native American communities.Read more about The Asset Learning Conference...
Research Director Steve Dubb will be serve on a panel discussing "How can we use diverse forms of community and employee ownership to build wealth in low-income communities, promote sustainability and advance the principles of economic democracy."Read more about 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting ...
Hilary Abell, author of our new report Worker Cooperatives: Pathways to Scale, and Kali Akuno of The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, discuss ways in which cooperative development can support social justice and economic security.
Though they end up as owners and decision-makers, workers in low-income communities often don't start off doing all the work of developing and growing a worker-owned cooperative themselves. This is even true for the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation, the world’s single largest worker cooperative network and a leading source of inspiration for efforts to build worker cooperatives to scale in the United States.
Senior Research Associate Thomas Hanna and Andrew McLeod of Collective Seeds Consulting Cooperative guest edit Grassroots Economic Organizing(GEO)’s blog series, Scaling-Up the Cooperative Movement.
Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz joined BALLE co-founder Michael Shuman in a conversation on how to build sustainable communities through inclusive local economic development.
In an Al Jazeera article Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz presents a critical perspective of Thomas Piketty’s best-selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century— emphasizing how democratizing ownership of capital can address the vast wealth inequalities that Piketty so powerfully documents.
