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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

April 23, 2018

Barriers to Diversity in Community

Crystal Farmer

Elders and cofounders Tamu (left) and Hekuma Kanyama standing in front of a Mt. Kilimanjaro mural on the walls of Café ULU.

April 9, 2018

Drink Your Coffee Black-Owned

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

March 5, 2018

Home Care Cooperatives and the Future of Work

Reed Ingalls

December 15, 2017

Loconomics: A Worker-Owned Platform Co-op for Service Professionals

Nithin Coca

Tightshift member apprentices and supporters at Tightshift Laboring Cooperative’s launch in December 2016 at Impact Hub DC. Adriel Fogle, Delonte Wilkins, Noreil Gorham, Donnell Sims, Keith Gaffney, Nicholas Gorham (bottom row). Photo by Samira Rashid, <a href="http://www.srashid.com/" target="_blank">SR Photography</a>.

November 6, 2017

A Worker Co-op for Returning Citizens

J. Gabriel Ware

November 3, 2017

16 Lessons for Community Longevity

Graham Ellis

October 23, 2017

Overcoming our Americanness

Colin Doyle

October 16, 2017

Innovative Funding Models for Worker-Owned Platform Cooperatives

Nithin Coca

Inaugaral celebration of cooperative generator project in Manbij. Image via <a href="https://cooperativeeconomy.info/mualda-cooperative-to-provide-electricity-to-200-houses-in-village-of-manbij/" target="_blank">Co-operative Economy in Rojava & Bajkur</a>.

October 9, 2017

Three New Cooperatives Aim to Develop the Economy in Manbij

Kameran Khojah

Cîwan Ahmed

September 18, 2017

Community Is the Best Medicine

Lily Silver

September 1, 2017

Cooperative Care: Empowered Caregiving

Direct Care Alliance

Photo from <a href="http://www.kathleenmcgwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/newsletter_possibilitiesofrelationships.pdf" target="_blank">Cooperative Notes</a>.

August 28, 2017

Cooperative Care and Waushara County

Kathleen McGwin

August 25, 2017

Ecovillage at Ithaca

Zaccharie Charvolin

June 26, 2017

The Economics of Community

Laird Schaub

May 12, 2017

Solidarity Economics as Transformative Politics

Michelle Williams

Vishwas Satgar

May 8, 2017

A Culture with Heart

Kara Huntermoon

April 17, 2017

What An Energy Revolution Looks Like

Alexis Zeigler

April 14, 2017

Putting the Grocery Back in the Grocery Store

Greg Olson

Tanner Segbers

April 10, 2017

Will the Poor Always be With Us?

Jim Tull

February 27, 2017

Kindling the Village Hearth

Cat Johnson

February 17, 2017

Earthaven Ecovillage

Frequency555

February 13, 2017

Sociocracy: Connecting Humans for a Shared Purpose

Jerry Koch-Gonzalez

January 23, 2017

Permaculture, Commons and Community

Helen Iles

Photo via <a href="http://www.ic.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/web.jpg" target="_blank">Fellowship for Intentional Community</a>.

January 16, 2017

Five Tools to Help Groups Thrive

Melanie Rios