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Minneapolis, September 29, 2023 - The Association of Cooperative Educators (ACE) is proud to extend heartfelt congratulations to Leslie Mead on her induction into the Cooperative Hall of Fame. This prestigious honor recognizes individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the cooperative movement, and Leslie’s remarkable career in cooperative philanthropy, education, and advocacy exemplifies the highest ideals of our cooperative community.

As the Hispanic/Latino population continues to rise in pockets across the U.S. — including by 37.6% in Utah from 2010 to 2020 — the community demonstrates an increasing market opportunity for CDFIs and other credit unions. The Hispanic and immigrant communities also face barriers when it comes to accessing financial products and services that CDFIs are uniquely positioned to address.

To learn more about Donna, which has been open to the public since May 2023, Hell Gate spoke with Lauren Ruiz, one of Donna's five worker-owners. Ruiz currently acts as the general manager for the bar. (At Donna's first incarnation, as a Williamsburg cocktail bar under a traditional ownership structure, she was a bartender.)

Urban Animal, a Seattle-based veterinary network, has announced it will become the first worker cooperative veterinary practice in the US this fall. This will enable its 110 employees to share in the governance and profits of the company with more than 50,000 clients.

October 3, 2023 (Arlington, VA) – Four innovative cooperatives in four cities have received a combined $170,000 in catalytic grant funding from Capital Impact Partners’ 2023 Co-op Innovation Awards, which aim to increase cooperative development in communities living with low incomes and/or communities of color. 

Agri co-ops Arla, Dairy Farmers of America, FrieslandCampina and Ocean Spray have joined an international group of leading agri-food organisations to back a global framework for regenerative agriculture.

With a profound sustainability crisis facing humanity, it may be useful to try and glimpse what a sustainable relationship between people and planet might actually look like. This essay explores how cultures and their host environments mesh together in pre-industrial societies.

The cluster of homes, now the River Rocks Cooperative, is the second limited equity housing cooperative NMCDC and NeighborWorks Montana have helped organize in Missoula in recent years, building on similar work NeighborWorks has done with mobile home park residents. The first, the Wolf Avenue Collective, finalized the purchase of eight units in a three-building complex on Missoula’s north side in May.

This Case Study summarizes the establishment of a resident-owned community land trust (CLT) housing cooperative in Missoula, Montana. The property included a group of three buildings containing a total of eight apartments on Wolf Avenue in Missoula’s Northside neighborhood. The property was known to be serving working people in the community and was at risk of being targeted for redevelopment.

“The interesting thing about S Group is that it’s boring,” Evan Carr told me. We were standing in an S Market, a midsized grocery store chain, in the middle of downtown, near the train station...

Carr, a tech worker who was born in America but has lived in Finland for more than 20 years, pointed to various labels on the shelves for vegetarian, vegan, or organic items. “You can request items and get them stocked,” he said. “I’ve done it myself.”

John Curl on "For All The People - Uncovering The Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements and Communalism in Americ from MightySmall Films on Vimeo.

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