After a year of research, networking, paperwork and other behind-the-scenes maneuvers unbeknownst to its patrons, Morning Bell Coffee Roasters has become the first worker-owned cooperative in the state of Iowa.
“It was incredible; a huge project,” Morning Bell Coffee Roasters Founder Nadav Mer told Daily Coffee News. “It was made even bigger in Iowa because we were the first.”
Hey interwebizens! I’m the DisCO CAT and I’m speaking to you hoomans on behalf of the DisCO crew.
Palante Technology Cooperative is seeking a new operations coordinator to join us in our work with incredible nonprofit and community organizations. The new worker will help streamline and coordinate our operations, HR, and finance systems, joining our distributed team as a remote worker.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled, with the target start date in early April.
Join us for a panel discussion with African Indigenous Diaspora to learn about the reality of Black-led and women-led intentional communities, as well as an opportunity to respond with collective action.
In this 90-minute panel, you will learn about a variety of global African diasporic intentional communities, and the challenges they face, through the Black people leading them. This panel discussion will address the following:
For the next expansion of its work in support of undocumented workers, South Philly Barbacoa is incubating and spinning off Masa Cooperativa, a worker-owned masa processing cooperative. It’s still early, but they are already selling masa to individuals and restaurants in Philly and as far as Boston. Over the past few months, they’ve visited farmers in their region to establish business partners who can plant the heirloom varieties of corn they want to purchase.
Times are changing in the meat industry — and a group of farmers and ranchers in Alameda, Saskatchewan has formed a co-op to make it work better for them.
What if we owned it? In this Remaking the Economy webinar, leaders in the movement for Black food sovereignty will discuss how that movement is being built, rooted in the gifts and talents from within the Black community, and anchored in a community vision. Our panelists are:
The 2nd Annual Sociocracy in Cooperatives Conference will be held on June 23, 2022 (virtual).
We invite proposals for our second annual conference – Sociocracy in Cooperatives. We are looking for 45 and 90 minute sessions suitable for the following formats:
How many co-ops can claim they were founded directly out of the Civil Rights movement? Or that they prevented a crisis predicted by government statisticians? The Federation of Southern Cooperatives has demonstrated that level of leadership throughout its 55-year history, and Shared Capital is proud to support their operating model through our work together.
As she was leaving a supermarket in southwest Detroit in 2015, Maria Perez spotted a note on a bulletin board near the exit, saying a church not far from where she lived was training people for jobs. Perez had been looking for work and had a feeling this might lead to something.
A success story in the housing crisis- a group of tenants has cut the average rent of an 800 sq. ft. apartment in half.
Hardy House, a cooperative housing site in North Austin that was originally built as a fourplex, is now expanding. They negotiated an affordable lease agreement in January as rent remains high in Austin.
A beloved Berkeley diner, shuttered last month amid the strain of the COVID-19 pandemic, is getting a second chance.
The new owners, made up of seven former managers and workers, say they’ll be dropping the name Bette, from Bette's Oceanview Diner, but keeping everything else the same.
Amelia Winger-Bearskin: I grew up as a young hacker in the ’90s, a 12-year-old girl with other 12-year-old girls who were hacktivists. So the dreams of decentralized storytelling, for me, started in those early days when I was first learning about the internet—when I’d go to school, and only one or two people at my whole school were online. And we would have these other lives, not just with our local friends but with people all over the world, some of whom we knew nothing about except their username.
