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.
The gym is quiet. A handful of members are warming up in that monk-like way of serious competitors (one I speak to is a high-level competitive powerlifter). Music is bumping at very modest volume; most gymgoers have Airpods in, anyway. Pictures, mostly black-and-white, line the walls. Some commemorate members’ accomplishments, like Bernie Delaney’s 262.5 kg bench at the World Powerlifting Championship, Las Vegas 2009. He claimed his fourth world championship that year.
Two co-operative apexes have signed a joint letter urging the European Commission to prioritise business transfers – including worker buyouts, which suffer from a lack of recognition in most member states.
The joint letter was written as the Commission works on the forthcoming Single Market Strategy and the EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy.
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2025 marks the International Year of Cooperatives, and across the globe, co-ops are leaning into what makes our model powerful: shared purpose, community focus, and a commitment to helping people.
At the Minnesota Credit Union Network, we’re celebrating our 100th anniversary this year as well. And in the spirit of that milestone and Cooperative Principle #6: Cooperation Among Cooperatives—we decided to mark the occasion with a unique collaboration.
One that you can toast.
We did it! The Maryland Cooperative Statute has passed!!! It has been signed by the Governor and will go into effect on October 1, 2026!
Our project steward, Anna Evans-Goldstein, took initiative and cultivated the Maryland Limited Worker Cooperative Association Act. This meant a lot of drafts, meetings, conversations, connections, trips to Annapolis, and time. We are so proud of the work Anna has done on this, and are happy to be a part of getting this bill passed.
