Community Development

Worker Cooperative Section of the San Francisco Congress

michaeljohnson — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:02:45 -0400

Below is a report on the Worker Co-operative component of the The San Francisco Community Congress from Steve Rice (volunteer with the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives [NoBAWC]), Poonam Whabi (Design Action Collective), and Rick Simon (Just Alternatives for a Sustainable Economy). It is summarized from brainstorming sessions of which twenty or so members from the Bay Area worker cooperatiave community participated. This component calls on local government to...

Doing Green Jobs Right

michaeljohnson — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:26:22 -0400

An article in The Nation magazine tells how Boston's Green Justice Coalition is creating "a model to connect the struggle for environmental justice with the fight for living-wage jobs, helping to lay the groundwork for a new generation of community-labor coalitions across the country."

THE EVERGREEN CO-OP MODEL: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITH A PLAN TO STABILIZE A COMMUNITY

ajowa — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:01:45 -0400

The Evergreen cooperatives in Cleveland, Ohio was the story everyone wanted to hear at the opening session on Saturday Aug. 7, 2010 of the U.S. Federation for Worker Cooperatives conference in Berkeley.

Several video cameras - including PBS -- were rolling at the front of Krutch Theater as Ted Howard, executive director of The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, which helped to organize the cooperatives and the strategy along with the late John Logue founder of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, spoke to an inspired audience of 270 worker cooperators from all over the U.S. and part of Canada. Also speaking was Medrick Addison, operations manager at Evergreen Cooperative Laundry.

The John Logue ACE Award; other ACE Awards

ajowa — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:32:49 -0400

The Association of Cooperative Educators established the John Logue ACE award at its 58th annual conference in Cleveland July27-30, 2010. Ohio Employee Ownership Center staff members, Bill McIntyre and Logue's wife, Olga Klepikova, talk about Logue's work, vision, "moxie" and his impact on Ohio and the U.S. Other ACE awardees for 2010 are also mentioned.

The exciting Association of Cooperative Educators conference in Cleveland July 27-30!

ajowa — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:22:07 -0400

On the scene our "woman at conference" reporting from Cleveland, OH, home of the Evergreen Cooperatives.

Evergreen: Can "Anchor Institutions" Help Revitalize Declining Neighborhoods by Buying from Local Cooperatives?

jim — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:30:16 -0400

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/402

by Jacquelyn Yates, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University

Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in Cleveland, Ohio

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:31:18 -0400

Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in Cleveland, Ohio
Worker coops in Cleveland to build wealth for inner-city residents

A group of Cleveland non-profits is backing a socially-conscious, eco-development in an inner-city neighborhood. They hope the environmentally-friendly workers cooperative will help build wealth for impoverished residents. Evergreen Laundry is the first of several cooperative ventures envisioned for the University Circle neighborhood.

Global Pressures May Spark Rural Economic Revolution

Ethan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:23:06 -0400

Rising costs of oil may give local economies a competitive advantage...

Co-op As Alternative to "Take a Leak" Economics

Ethan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:19:23 -0400

A brainstorm on strategies for local economic development

The People's Grocery: Developing a Worker-Owned Community Grocery Store

Ethan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:58:16 -0500

People's Grocery is making speedy progress from a mobile organic food service cooperative towards developing a worker-owned cooperative grocery store in West Oakland in which local food and sustainable agriculture will be prioritized in a community health model centered on nutrition education for low-income residents of the community. At the same time, the cooperative is taking their business development goal beyond the single cooperative grocery store to a broader community development initiative focused on establishing a commercial and health service complex.