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Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins: A Unique Financial Institution
David Roach's Mo' Better Food - Building Healthy Economics newsletter
David Roach is doing incredibly important work in Oakland with Mo' Better Food, schools, intergenerational learning, farmer's markets, and other things. He was our incredible improvisational tour guide of Oakland.
THE EVERGREEN CO-OP MODEL: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITH A PLAN TO STABILIZE A COMMUNITY
The Evergreen cooperatives in Cleveland, Ohio was the story everyone wanted to hear at the opening session on Saturday Aug. 7, 2010 of the U.S. Federation for Worker Cooperatives conference in Berkeley.
Several video cameras - including PBS -- were rolling at the front of Krutch Theater as Ted Howard, executive director of The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, which helped to organize the cooperatives and the strategy along with the late John Logue founder of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, spoke to an inspired audience of 270 worker cooperators from all over the U.S. and part of Canada. Also speaking was Medrick Addison, operations manager at Evergreen Cooperative Laundry.
What can 2,500,000 Berkshares Buy
A big idea for boosting our cooperative economy?
Ohio's Casa Nueva Restaurant: Worker Ownership for 25 Successful Years; Builder of Regional Economy; Model for Food Literacy
This story by Karen Thomas, of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, is reprinted from the Winter 2011 issue of Owners at Work. It is the story about how eight workers took over a local restaurant, and turned it into a worker cooperative called Casa Nueva. But the work did not stop there. In the 25 years that it has been operating, Casa Nueva has also helped build a regional economy. The Athens, Ohio area where they are located is a national model for food literacy because of their work. For more information, visit the OEOC website at http://www.oeockent.org/. Click here for the story.
Union leaders to pull funds from five banks, look to CUs
New Oakland Worker Cooperative Uses Profits to Create Jobs in Bay Area
Credit Union Celebrates 25th Anniversary
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