If you’re a co-op member – and especially if you’re a board member – being able to read your co-op’s financial statements is an important part of your job. Effective members ensure the co-op is operating sustainably and meeting the needs of the membership, and understanding the co-op’s financial situation is central to that task.
A staffing cooperative like AlliedUP is a worker-owned organization that provides talent solutions to care networks, skilled nursing facilities, and local clinics while ensuring its members—the workers themselves—earn fair wages, compensated benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
Join us for the Roots and Resilience: BIPOC Farmers & Intentional Communities Conference, a transformative gathering designed to empower, connect, and inspire BIPOC farmers, land stewards, and intentional community builders. Over three dynamic days, we’ll explore sustainable farming practices, land access strategies, community development, and personal wellness—all within a supportive environment rooted in cultural resilience and collective growth.
The Northwest Cooperative Development Center (NWCDC) will host our first bi-annual Cascadia Cooperative Conference (CCC) on Monday, August 25, and Tuesday, August 26, 2025, at the Parkview Event Space in Seattle, WA, which is within walking distance of many hotels and offers 30 complimentary parking spots. Thank you so much for your interest in attending.
Tenant organizing, and tenant unions specifically, are an attempt to ensure that tenants—44 million households nationwide—are not merely consumers of housing policy but authors of their own stories.
Every Saturday in Ikoyi, Lagos (Nigeria), a small but steady ritual unfolds behind Nakenoh’s Boulevard mall. TKD Farms Farmers’ Market, founded in 2017, brings together a rotating group of vendors—15 to 20 each week, out of a larger pool of 185. What happens here is more than retail. It’s a working model of what a community-centered economy can look like.
The Housing Choice Voucher program, better known as Section 8, helps low-income renters afford private-market housing by restricting their portion of the monthly rent to 30 percent of their income. The federal government pays the remainder. The program is run by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which transfers its portion of the rent to local public housing authorities (PHAs) each month. The PHAs then pay landlords directly. But Section 8 is facing increased fiscal and administrative uncertainty under the current executive leadership.
