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It started with a simple phone call in 2021. A new Nebraska resident contacted the Nebraska Cooperative Development Center (NCDC), with a question about home care cooperative job opportunities in Nebraska.

At the time, NCDC was not aware of any home care cooperatives in the state. As an organization dedicated to empowering people with resources to start cooperatives in their communities, NCDC started making calls.

When worker co-ops do engage in international trade, moreover, they favour fair trade over free trade.

We compare the strategic behavior of cooperatives to alternative organizational forms (for-profit and state-owned organizations) in the pursuit of community-based benefits beyond profits. Specifically, we examine credit cooperatives, where clients (borrowers) are owner-members, and analyze their responses to the increased digitalization of the banking sector. We hypothesize that client ownership amplifies the importance of in-person relational channels, prompting cooperatives to retain more physical branches even as digitalization accelerates.

The vendors are mostly people working side jobs and trying to supplement their incomes. We live in a poor neighborhood with old, sagging houses. Dented work trucks are parked in driveways, and the bus stops are full of people headed to construction and service industry jobs. “Our vendors are single moms, older people living on fixed incomes, and teachers making some extra money during the summer,” says Shante. “They are just working-class people who get off work at 4 PM and already have their car loaded up and ready to come set up over here.”

What if businesses were built not just to profit, but to empower people and communities? That was the driving spirit behind Hawaiʻi’s first statewide cooperative business gathering, hosted by the University of Hawaiʻi’s Ke Ō Mau Center for Sustainable Food Systems.

Worker cooperatives are an effective way of protecting jobs and providing more opportunities to the marginalised and local communities especially from the rural backgrounds. Referring to the case of Kerala Dinesh Beedi and workers what we understand is the capability of the worker cooperative to provide jobs to displaced employees and scale it further to provide Jobs to more and more people. At the height of its performance KDB was able to provide jobs to over 42000 people. KDB was instrumental in developing a sophisticated culture in the region.

Using panel data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS, 2010–2020) comprising 11,029 household-year observations, this study applies instrumental variable estimation with fixed effects to analyze the impact of community mutual aid networks and social relationship capital on household financial vulnerability. The results reveal that these networks and social relationship capital significantly reduce household financial vulnerability. However, the magnitude of this effect exhibits notable heterogeneity across regions.

Detroit People’s Food Co-op met *all* of the award criteria through:

Early June, eight tonnes of agroecological rice—grown by the SPI-affiliated Peasant Cooperative (Koperasi Petani Indonesia/KPI) in Indramayu—were shipped to the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC) Cooperative in Kampung Susun Akuarium, North Jakarta. The cooperative serves around 5,000 households across 26 villages in the Jakarta area.

A beloved Cincinnati-area greenhouse is transitioning to a new form of ownership to keep the business growing.

Our Harvest Cooperative recently purchased Northgate Greenhouses and started making the switch to a worker-owned model.

The change began last spring, when longtime owner Kathie Hogeback decided to sell her business. After running it with her husband Bob for two decades, the 64-year-old says she was tired.