Somali Cab Drivers in Portland Start Driver-owned Taxi Company
For 13 years, Dawood Ghedi paid whether he worked or not. Every Friday, he had to give cab companies $630 to secure a car for the following week.
Ghedi drove cabs seven days a week, he said, 12 to 14 hours a day. He bought his own gasoline and health insurance. He never earned a vacation day or sick time.
Co-op models mean you (yes you!) can own a brewery
Against a backdrop of recent corporate acquisitions of craft breweries, there’s a quiet counterrevolution gaining steam: cooperatively owned breweries. They put ownership back in the hands of beer drinkers, just a few hundred bucks at a time.
What’s this blockchain thing?
Most of the time, we hear about the blockchain in the context of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. But that’s not the only kind of transaction the blockchain can handle. Any exchange of information is a transaction. The hash securely and anonymously verifies the existence of the exchange. So, what could platform co-ops do with this?
Registration Open for Participatory Budgeting Conference
The 4th International Conference on Participatory Budgeting in North America, organized by the Participatory Budgeting Project in conjunction with the City of Boston, will take place from May 20th through the 22nd in Cambridge and Boston during the voting phase of the youth PB process.
Workers to Owners 1-Day Seminar: April 11
On April 11, Workers to Owners is hosting a seminar to move the needle forward on an exciting trend in sustainable economic development: converting existing businesses to worker ownership.
Group Health Co-op approves acquisition by Kaiser Permanente
Rejecting critics and community concern, voting members of Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative have overwhelmingly agreed to join with the California health-care giant Kaiser Permanente.
USACYC is Hiring an Organizing Director
USA Cooperative Youth Council is a national federation of youth (age 17 to 30) and their allies in the cooperative movement. USACYC is organized as a non-distributive, common equity cooperative - we are incorporated and recognized by the federal and Minnesota state governments as a 501c3 non-profit organization. The USACYC Core (i.e.
The first distributed tool for a new Sharing Economy
Collaborative consumption allows everything from car-sharing to go to work to exchanging hours of language practice, from offering babysitting services to offering hospitality to people who speak other languages or are part of our network of hobbies.
Vancouver's Car Sharing Co-op
Way back in the 90s, we started Vancouver's first carshare co-op. Today, Modo is still going strong with 15,000 members and the most diverse fleet stretching from Vancouver Island to the Lower Mainland.
Why own a car when you can share 400?
Join today at http://modo.coop!
