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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

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PUNCHCARD - the podcast about worker controlled businesses Sick of businesses only maximising profits for their owners & shareholders? Tired of butting heads with management to improve working conditions & raise wages? Worker cooperatives are an alternative business model where the workers own & control the business. PUNCHCARD explores the world of worker-controlled, democratically run cooperative businesses. Tune in to hear from a variety of guests sharing their stories, experiences and insights as members of worker cooperatives.

Bobby Jones joined Shareable as Development Director in October 2022 after spending the previous four years as a fundraising consultant and the first Director of Development at the William S. Davies Homeless Shelters in Rome, GA. While at the Davies Shelters, Bobby helped secure the organization’s first three government grants while doubling individual giving. He also helped launch a farm and food program that employs shelter guests to grow food to be sold in a sliding-scale mobile farmers market. Before joining the nonprofit sector, Bobby and his wife owned and operated an organic vegetable farm in middle Georgia for nearly 8 years, where they launched a Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, community farmers market, farmer advocacy group, and a farmer’s cooperative. Bobby holds a BA in Liberal Studies with a minor in Nonprofit Management from Georgia College and an MS in Nonprofit Administration from Louisiana State University-Shreveport. He moved back to his hometown of Rome, GA in 2018, where he loves biking around town, being active in all the community things, slowly turning his front lawn into one large garden, and camping and hiking in the northwest Georgia mountains with his wife, Chelsea, and son, Tripp.

Institute for Economic Democracy, Slovenia.

Institute for Economic Democracy, Slovenia.

Institute for Economic Democracy, Slovenia / Faculty of Social Sciences, University Ljubljana.

School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore.

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China.

Bruce J. Reynolds retired from the USDA Cooperatives program in 2016, after 39 years of service. During that time he wrote several articles for Rural Cooperatives magazine as well as research papers on cooperatives.