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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

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

October 16, 2017

Innovative Funding Models for Worker-Owned Platform Cooperatives

Nithin Coca

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

Public domain. CC0

March 27, 2017

Ascending the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Atlee McFellin

March 20, 2017

Discordant Reflections on Cooperative Development

Len Krimerman

March 10, 2017

Lessons From a Successful Resistance Movement

Ramsey Kanaan

March 3, 2017

ROH Cooperative Cafe

Ekumenická akademie Praha

December 23, 2016

Solidarity Between North and South

SOS Faim

SUSY

November 28, 2016

Two Models of Cooperative Development

LIFT Economy

July 1, 2016

Working Together for a Cooperative Future

CICOPA

June 22, 2016

Paving the Way to a Just Economy

March 25, 2016

BIOME: Operationalizing the Cooperative and Solidarity Economy

Fair Trade Hellas TV

January 22, 2016

Helping Each Other

The Laura Flanders Show

January 6, 2016

Filipina Trafficking Survivors Launch a Co-op

Abigail Savitch-Lew

via <a href="http://www.unisolbrasil.org.br/" target="_blank">UNISOL Brasil</a>

December 28, 2015

Cooperative Economics in Brazil

Carl Ratner

Humana Nova

December 16, 2015

Social Enterprise Supports Unions and Worker Co-ops Through Music

Josh Davis

December 14, 2015

#SolidarityCities: Upstate New York

SolidarityNYC

November 22, 2015

#SolidarityCities: Philadelphia

SolidarityNYC

September 2, 2015

Notes on Advancing the Development of Worker Cooperatives 3

Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/126015850@N02/15128518019" target="_blank">South Bend Voice</a>. CC BY-SA 2.0

August 19, 2015

Co-operatives Need to Confront Climate Chaos

Sean Farmelo

Paul Fitzpatrick of the Data Commons Cooperative working with Ben Blackshear of SolidarityNYC on making the back-end of their map easier to maintain. Allowing users to assign tags to listings creates a grassroots sense of connection. <em><strong>Nerdy but necessary!</em></strong>

June 29, 2015

What's Data Got to Do With It?

Noémi Giszpenc

June 26, 2015

Cooperative Growth and/or Regional Cooperative Development?

Len Krimerman

June 17, 2015

Building Bridges: Economic Democracy and Cooperative Alliances

Christopher Michael