When Mary O’Hara joined ROC USA, it was just getting started as a national organization trying to scale the success of Resident Owned Communities nationwide. Fourteen years later, Mary has been promoted to Executive Vice President for ROC Movement and is empowering ROC leaders to become movement leaders.
The UK’s Solidarity Economy Association (SEA) is launching a series of online conversations with radical grass-roots solidarity economy organisations across the world – each one on a different continent, with contributions from North and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
Montreal Lake First Nation member, Charlotte Ross is a scholar, a student, a teacher of Indigenous languages, and a passionate advocate for understanding the proper historical context of Reconciliation.
Real development does not constitute profit maximisation and infinite growth. It is about building better lives and resilient communities in a sustainable manner against the risks inherent in the system of capitalist growth. A post-capitalistic approach where the concept of success is redefined can be the only way forward. The harmony of living with nature and valuing experiences needs to be instilled in people's psyche over the dream of material success and hoarding wealth.
As revealed in a new IDB report entitled, “Competing in Agribusiness: Corporate Strategies and Public Policies for the Challenges of the 21st Century,” Coopsol emerged in Santiago del Estero and Chaco, two of Argentina’s poorest provinces, to thrive by producing conventional and organic honey, while contribute to better so
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Anna Lund about what fiduciary duties are, what they mean for co-ops, and take a deep dive into the decisions made by the board of Mountain Equipment Co-op. Dr. Lund is a law professor at the University of Alberta who studies insolvency and bankruptcy law, and gives an insightful look at some key concepts for co-op boards.
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Moínear is the home of 69 new families, each of whom will bea Member of the Ralahine Co-operative, allowing people living in the estate to have a meaningful say in how their homes and communities are managed.
GREATER NOIDA: "Milk with mines" - is the motto followed by Medha, the milk producers' cooperative that has helped thousands in Jharkhand branch out into jobs beyond mining and traditional farming.
Introduced by the state government in 2014, Medha Cooperative Milk Federation's aim was to scale up dairy business in Jharkhand, the state known for its minerals, and in turn, give its tribal population more employment opportunities.
This paper uses financial accounting data of the universe of Italian worker cooperatives, from 2011 to 2018, to examine whether cooperatives were able to achieve employment stabilization in a period of prolonged recession. Since wages have experienced, in most of the period, a negative growth, we further consider whether wages’ downward flexibility had been sufficient to sustain employment stabilization and whether, under these circumstances, cooperatives’ financial solidity had weakened.
