Spring’s here! It’s time for frolic and fun!
Save the date for our annual #PBParty on June 16th in NYC!
Even if you can’t be in there in person, you can still join in the festivities! These include voting in our PB2 process (where YOU decide the projects we should pursue), celebrating amazing honorees, and much MUCH more!
From April 18th through the 22nd of 2015, a conference will be held at the Inter-University Centre(IUC) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. This conference, which is open to the general public, will focus on “Revisiting Self-Management: Lessons from its Past; Reflections on the future of social economy and self-managed work.”
The co-operative banking network operates its own deposit protection scheme, for which each bank pays a risk-related levy. It uses rating methods and individual audits to make sure banks don’t take too much risk, and can take preventive measures, such as requiring a bank to restructure.
In effect, network members guarantee each other’s lending.
Mass Mosaic are willing to provide internet development expertise to us in exchange for us providing them with social enterprise expertise. To get both projects going, they have suggested a competition to redesign the FairShares logo, and that we purchase some web development tools to improve the FairShares website.
At a time when there is trust-deficit in all walks of life, cooperatives are the organizations which have trust as their prime component. The principles and values of cooperatives generate trust. People tend to trust cooperatives because they feel that cooperatives are democratic organizations which ensure autonomy. Because of their strong roots in the community, the people trust cooperatives.
After six years of applying, being denied and applying again, the Alliance Taxi Co-op has been approved by the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) for a dispatch license. The license will allow the co-op to finally send its drivers, who are also its owners, out onto the streets.
[I]n 2009 the Swedish Academy gave the Nobel Prize in Economics to a political scientist, Elinor Ostrom, for having “challenged conventional wisdom [sic] by demonstrating how local property can be managed by a local commons without regulation by central authorit
Ms. Nzinga Ifateyo has been a co-editor of Grassroots Economic Organizing, (GEO) for more than 10 years. GEO, a 30-year-old publication, reports on cooperative developments around the world, and provides advocacy for alternative economic solutions.
In Victoria, we are fortunate to have Neighbourhood Houses — although the changing demographics mean many in our communities do not tend to know about, or appreciate, how amazing Neighbourhood Houses are and can be. After some demographic research and doorknocking, I have planted myself in these commons.
Election season is an exciting time in a democratic society: you get to ask candidates your questions in public forums and they must answer them, or at least try to. You get to talk with your friends and neighbors about issues that are important to you. You get to evaluate multiple candidates on their ability to serve you and represent your needs, and then pick your favorite one.
I believe we can build a human economy where people are the bottom line. We need a world where people do not have to live in fear of the economic repercussions of getting sick, or losing their home or job. Where every child gets to fulfil their potential.
