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Cooperating to Enhance Native American Food Economies

Worker cooperative members and developers discuss the use of Sociocracy in worker co-ops, and answer questions from webinar participants.

Kim Capen, the ROC Association Director for the New England Region, talks about his work on the ROC Association, including specific initiatives regarding stigma and branding.

With Covid’s impacts still being felt and a decade of business sales about to erupt it is key that we learn how to make WBOs as easy as possible for prospective worker-owners.

Chad Rittenberry gives his perspective on what worked and what didn’t in Mutual Aid response to the winter storm of February 2021, as well as how some local organizers plan to be even more prepared for when the next disaster strikes.

A report on the factors that lead to Worker Buyouts of failing firms and those without succession plans in Italy.

Niki Okuk, COO of RCO Tires cooperative, discusses the tribulations and the successes of doing business as a worker co-op.

In the 1970s, the accepted environmental thinking was that overpopulation was destroying the earth. Prominent economists and environmentalists agreed that the only way to stem the tide was to impose restrictions on how we used resources, such as land, water, and fish, from either the free market or the government. This notion was upended by Elinor Ostrom, whose work to show that regular people could sustainably manage their community resources eventually won her the Nobel Prize. Ostrom’s revolutionary proposition fundamentally changed the way we think about environmental governance.

A suggested structure to address when members need help with meeting basic needs, but find it awkward to ask for it.

NPQ’s latest webinar in our Remaking the Economy series looks at the workplace of today while exploring how our work lives might be transformed to support health and wellbeing, promote restorative justice, and provide not just “jobs” but livelihoods.