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One of Co-op Atlantic’s challenges was its managers’ contempt for the co-op’s structure. They didn’t trust the co-op model, and Co-op Atlantic didn’t train managers on how co-ops work or outline the model’s advantages.

Then she heard about the Oak Street Co-operative in Burlington, a plan to have a group of community residents buy 88-90 Oak St. and lease space to small, start-up businesses.

When the pandemic started, Modo Carshare Co-op's business took a big hit. But by focusing on what was best for their members and staff, the co-op has weathered the crisis. In this episode, we talk to Patrick Nangle, CEO of Modo, about carsharing, the co-op's approach to managing the crisis, and its focus on diversity and anti-racism initiatives. 

The role of co-ops includes acting as a “cultural broker”, says the report. Multicultural Health Brokers Co-op (MCHB) helps refugees “navigate the Canadian health system, taking a holistic and comprehensive view of health”.

“Co-operatives not only provide for practical needs, but through co-operation, members are able to access training and services, and can also lobby for more strategic needs through their collective voice,” the report says.

In this webinar, mutual aid practitioners in the Twin Cities, Chicago, and Atlanta discuss the past, present, and future of mutual aid. In the midst of COVID-19, mutual aid networks have emerged across the country. But what is mutual aid? And how does it connect with broader movements for economic democracy and a solidarity economy?

Addressing these issues are three panelists:

The group’s lead organizer, Jennifer Bennetch of OccupyPHA, called the deal a “landmark agreement” that would pave the way for more transfers of disused properties to community groups.

Last Friday, through the Cooperative Management Education Alumni and Student Co-op, I has the opportunity to screen a new film about the “Co-op Wars” that happened in Minneapolis in the 1970s. Producer Erik Esse, himself a former member and workers at the North Country Co-op Grocery, presented the film and led a discussion about the film and the moment.

No, not the election. But a revolutionary change in securities law. Last week, in a 3-2 decision, the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) tweaked a bunch of regulations concerning investment crowdfunding. The headliner change increased the maximum amount a company can raise in a year from $1 million to $5 million, which means that many more mature small and medium scale businesses can now seek funding from grassroots investors.

PV Solar, Real Pickles and other companies provide a sustainable alternative to economic growth.

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Cooperatives in NES vary in terms of size and field of activity, but also by type. Some are worker cooperatives, which produce a good or provide a service and gain a profit to be distributed among members. Others are service cooperatives, which are a special type of consumption cooperative: financial capital is gathered by members in order to set up a service for the community, which is directly provided without being commercialized.

The early chapters also brought home to me how central such Co-operative stores were in towns and places.  In the 1980s we often talked about ‘grounding the capital’ in retail development, particulary in the context of out of town superstores.  Here though the book shows how the Co-operative Movement grounded not only its local retail capital but also built for social capital.  Large buildings, multi-functional spaces, halls above the ground floors and so on, these were central, town, community hubs of the sort we have lost and now desperately need.  Retail

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It isn’t common to have energy cooperatives in an urban area. What inspired the development of the Energy Co-op and why do you think it has sustained itself for forty years?

Divya Desai