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The interest in cooperative, equitable economies is growing… and our team is growing along with it! We are excited to announce two new job opportunities with PACA: a Cooperative Projects Organizer and a Co-op Developer.

Considering starting an intentional community? You’ll want to hear from these folks first.

Join us as key founders and longterm members of well-established communities share their decades of experience about starting and sustaining intentional community. You’ll discover the wisdom these elder communities in our network have to offer during presentations and panel discussion followed by Q&A.

There has always been a long-standing, widespread and deeply entrenched custom of gotong royong (co-operation) in Indonesian culture. Gotong royong was mostly practiced through social activities in villages such as building roads, mosques, churches and other communal or public facilities. The formal cooperative movement in Indonesia arrived in the country during the colonial period.

Incorporating is a big step for a co-op. It makes the business a legal entity, allows it to open a bank account, sell memberships, and operate. Once you’re incorporated, your steering committee becomes an official board of directors.

TESA has been supporting the Compost Co-op since 2015, which is a worker-owned business that provides composting services in Massachusetts. 2020 proved to be a pivotal year for the cooperative. After years of struggling with member’s housing insecurity, the Compost Co-op took matters into their own hands, and purchased a building in partnership with a local design co-op.

We are building a global network of ordinary cooperative members worldwide that organise within cooperatives to increase cooperation between cooperatives. We have started doing this by launching a campaign to pass resolutions at these two old giants to divert a tiny portion of their surplus towards funding grants for small, new co-operatives.

Cooperative members were asked to report on their perception of their economic status and income. Ninety-seven percent (97%) of cooperative members affirmed that cooperative membership positively affected their household’s economic status, including 32% who respond that the cooperative has had a “considerable” impact and 27% who affirm that the cooperative has had a “strong” positive impact on their household economic situation.

Editor's note: this particular example of co-buying real estate is not one that is particularly in-line with our cooperative principles on a couple of points; namely using a "one dollar, one vote" model for making some important decisions, rather than "one member, one vote," and starting the project with a plan for eventual demutualization after a fixed period of time.

Responding to the needs of scholard and student around the world, JSTOR has collaborated with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to create an open library of content related to their Black Liberation Reading List...[from] 95 books selected by the Schomberg Center...

The workplace is not where many people feel most powerful. Sure, if you’re the big boss of your restaurant, or candle store, or car dealership, or financial planning firm, or zoo, you might walk into work with a little swagger in your step, knowing you control the box of free donuts in the break room (Take One!) and whatever the “Q2 strategy” is.

Throughout the history of the United States, Black people have used cooperative economics to support each other and our communities.

First, since crowdfunding relies on reaching a large crowd, having more owners means you will have a larger set of networks to access.

Second, many of the advantages of cooperatives—community focus, local mission, human connection to the business—can really resonate with potential investors, especially those that are attracted to crowdfunding investments.