EUREKA, CA (August 5, 2021) -- Cooperation Humboldt (https://cooperationhumboldt.com/) is partnering with the Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy (http://cannabisandsocialpolicy.org/litproject/), a nonprofit action-research think tank focused on research and popular education based at Humboldt State University to form a Cooperative Cannabis Economy Group.
CDF is offering scholarships for new cooperators to attend the 2021 Cooperative IMPACT Conference hosted by NCBA CLUSA and related programming.
The scholarship covers:
The Black Liberation Cooperative Academy (BLCA) is a 10-session program for New Orleans’ Black workers, organizers, community leaders, entrepreneurs and families to share in learning, lift up Black cooperative history, create our own economic opportunities, meet collective needs, and develop successful collaborative economic practices.
Contact us with questions at BLCAneworleans@gmail.com
This program is organized by the Cooperation New Orleans Loan Fund.
Model D: Public Thrift is a worker-owned cooperative business. What does that mean?
Margo Dalal: It means everyone that works in the business is an equal owner of the business. We have shared financial ownership and shared decision-making.
Model D: How did you come together as worker-owners?
“Like [many] Canadian cities, we are facing a housing crisis that’s related to the pressure on the market and record-low stock available,” relates Zoë Thurling, a board member of the Glassworks Cooperative.
Welcome to the world of “Do-It-Together” architecture.
For millennia, people built their own homes, barns, workshops, and communal spaces. They used local, natural materials and time-tested building techniques, and most importantly, they engaged their family and neighbors in the process.
This coffee co-op was founded by former FMLN guerrilla combatants following the signing of El Salvador's 1992 Peace Accords. We visited Marias 93 in eastern El Salvador.
Good governance is an important part of a co-op’s success. Creating the conditions for good governance and efficient decision-making takes effort and planning.
Access and contribute to Our source data on Google Sheets. Below that information is embedded with details for each state/province along with examples of NASCO members who use some of these statutes.
For the past ten years, Our Harvest Cooperative has had the extraordinary experience of building a farm co-op here in Cincinnati at the Bahr farm. We are very happy to share astounding news: as of a few weeks ago, the Bahr farm has officially been donated to the Cardinal Land Trust by incredible mentor, friend, and pillar of the community Dale Bahr.
South Baltimore CLT takes the lead from community members, especially local youth, who identified CLTs as a way to promote development without displacement and a just transition to zero waste in a neighborhood deeply impacted by environmental injustice, illegal dumping, and evictions.
This paper first provides an overview of the existing conceptual frameworks and international standards related to building statistics about the social and solidarity economy (SSE). It then looks at how the perimeter for SSE is set in the cases of the two main frameworks presently at hand: the “social economy approach,” as embodied in the CIRIEC Manual on drawing up satellite accounts and in the ILO Guidelines concerning statistics on coopera-tives, and the “NPO approach”, as embodied in the United Nations NPI and TSE handbooks on non-profit and related institutions.
Recently, mutual aid has come under scrutiny, with critics taking issue with it as a concept, those who support it, and individuals and organisations who claim to practice it. Simultaneously, mutual aid has become an urgent need within our communities due to the recent COVID-19 lockdown that has left many already financially precarious people unable to support themselves. Working class people across so-called ‘Australia’ are struggling to survive due to deeply insufficient structural support from the state.
A bipartisan infrastructure bill approved by the Senate could provide billions of dollars for electric co-operative priorities, says US sector body NCBA CLUSA.
