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Blue print for co-op development ready; data in my laptop: Shah

Shah felt that the co-op sector in the country cannot be strengthened until PACS are revitalized. He said that the Government led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has decided to computerize the country’s 63,000 PACS and along with this, the new model bylaws of PACS have been prepared and sent to the states, in which provision has been made to make PACS multi-purpose.

Cooperation Buffalo Hiring Full-Time Cooperative Developer

Cooperation Buffalo is a community-led resource center, a team of cooperative business developers and educators, and a community-controlled non-extractive loan fund. We mobilize workers to achieve economic security through cooperative business ownership, generating wealth and power in communities most affected by inequality.

We engage our community in training and education in cooperative economics and do work to grow economic democracy and an ecosystem of cooperatively owned
enterprises in Buffalo and Western New York.

Workshop looks at worker-owned farms

Food, fiber and flower farmers in Humboldt and Del Norte counties and tribal lands are invited to join the North Coast Growers Association, Worker Owned Humboldt and guest instructors from Redwood Roots Farm Cooperative and Uplift Co-op for two free workshops to explore the benefits of and approaches for creating worker-owned farms and agricultural producer cooperatives.

hephzibah v. strmic-pawl, PhD

February 23, 2023

Support Ella Baker Day!

Every year the message of Ella Baker Day spreads a little a farther, and we hope that your community will begin its own tradition of celebrating EBD.

Lessons from Third Root Community Health Center

While we did succeed in providing a steadfast resource that many long-term BIPOC community members relied on for healing and community building, bringing services into a community that had been historically marginalized did not in and of itself overcome cultural and access barriers.

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February 27, 2023

The Blockchain is No Place to Build a Co-op

DAOs have a fundamental flaw that make them inappropriate for cooperatives: they are written in code.

The ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center includes the National Respite Locator, a service to help family caregivers and professionals locate respite services in their community and ways to pay for it; the National Respite Coalition, the policy division of ARCH that advocates for preserving and promoting respite in policy and programs at the national, state, and local levels; and the Lifespan Respite Technical Assistance Center which is funded by the Administration for Community Living in the US Department of Health and Human Services to provide resources and assistance to Lifespan Respite grantees, state respite coalitions and the respite network at large. Website: archrespite.org

March 1, 2023

Opportunities for Innovation: Home Care Worker Cooperatives

We are in the midst of a labor force crisis in the supply of direct service workers. The home care industry experiences a 67% average annual turnover in workers. The number of workers needed to provide home care and respite is going to escalate over the next 2 decades, exacerbating the crisis. The shortage is already acute in rural areas, and worsening in urban and suburban areas as well. An emerging solution is developing across the country through Home Care worker cooperatives.

Alexandria Shaner is a sailor, writer, organizer, and teacher. Based in the southern Caribbean, she is a staff member of ZNetwork.org, and active with the Women's Rights and Empowerment Network, The Climate Reality Project and RealUtopia.org.

March 2, 2023

Slovenia’s IMZ celebrates 10 years of citizens’ assemblies

I spoke with representatives from The Initiative for Citywide Assembly (Iniciativa mestni zbor – IMZ) about the non-partisan, self-organized municipal assemblies in Maribor, Slovenia that has now been active for 10 years. IMZ shares its rich experiences, offering insights into organizing and facilitation, organizational structure and culture, community, diversity, intersectional activism, and more.