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A Capitol Hill mansion that once housed generations of aspiring butlers is being converted into the city’s first permanently affordable housing co-operative. 

“The irony's not lost on us,” said Lincoln Miller, the executive director for Boulder Housing Coalition, which purchased the property. “We really appreciate that and that is part of why we're calling this the People's Mansion.”

Since 1990, the mansion housed the Starkey International Institute for Household Management, where people trained to become butlers for the ultra-rich.

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Jessica Gordon-Nembhard: The 1930s and 1940s were similar….there was an economic crisis that was even worse than in the 1880s. There was also this connection again back to the progressive movement, as the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was becoming more and more interventionist and progressive. Even the federal government [was] pushing what they called self-help co-ops.

Please watch this space for the next round of CoFUND, our regranting program, aimed to support and build the collective resilience of food and land-justice based cooperatives; led by Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous People of Color of all ages.

Through this fund, CoFED will re-grant funding to cooperative and farmer-based organizations that are building and working to transform the food system.

Section 1.  The Grant Details
 

Real Pickles, a worker-owned cooperative specializing in organic, fermented foods, has bought the 311 Wells St. building it has called home since 2009.

The local company bought the property from business founders Dan Rosenberg and Addie Rose Holland for $550,000 on Nov. 20 and now serves as the landlord to fellow worker-owned cooperative PV Squared, a solar design and installation company.

Throughout our travels, we have noticed an alarming trend of people wanting to treat cooperatives as a charity or charitable organization.

In the wake of the 2024 election, Barn Raiser talks to prominent Native leaders and mentors, who tell us in edited interviews how and why their communities have long endured, even in divisive and unsettled times.

Right now, all of us who live together on this earth face not just political instability but the “dual crises of climate change and social injustice,” according to Fawn Sharp, citizen of the Quinalt Indian Nation, in Taholah, Washington, and former president of the National Congress of American Indians.

Go-op is bringing the benefits of co-operative ownership to the passenger rail sector for the first time ever. Through Go-op, passengers will have a direct voice in the specification and delivery of routes; and staff will be empowered to set the highest standards for delivery. This share offer is to launch our first rail service, but our goal is to continue to innovate across multiple routes and different modes of transport, all in pursuit of our objects: to enhance mobility while reducing the social and environmental impacts of transport.