Organizational Support & Development

Why I Have Hope for Haiti

michaeljohnson — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 07:33:49 -0500

Beverly Bell on the social movements there

Help Spread Consensus Decision-Making

michaeljohnson — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:14:29 -0500

...writing for support to train members of media cooperatives and collectives around the world in consensus decision-making

Vermont Co-op Summit Resources

michaeljohnson — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:31:08 -0400

New England summit highlights Crowell and others

Mondragon Diaries: Day Five

michaeljohnson — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 12:34:35 -0400

Our first stop is another component allied with Mongragon University called SAIOLAN. It's an incubator project for helping to launch new coops and high-tech businesses as well as training new entrepreneurs.

Mondragon Diaries: Day Three

michaeljohnson — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:49:07 -0400

Our topic this morning is the wider range of the cooperative movement, both in the Basque Country and Spain. Mondragon is a part of the Basque Cooperative Confederation. There are currently 755 cooperatives in the Basque Country, and only 80 of them are the worker-owned MCC coops. There are a total of 537,000 members of all the coops, but only 54,919 are worker members, and 37,860 of these are the MCC worker-owners.

Mondragon Diaries: Carl Davidson's Five Days Studying Cutting-Edge People and Tools for Change

michaeljohnson — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:16:22 -0400

I'm with a group of 25 social activists on a study tour organized by the Praxis Peace Project. Our focus is the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, a 50-year-old network of nearly 120 factories and agencies, involving nearly 100,000 workers in one way or another, and centered in the Basque Country but now spanning the globe. We're here to study the history of these unique worker-owned factories, how they work, why they have been successful, and how they might be expanded in various ways as instruments of social change.

Our Calling and Building the Movement

John McNamara — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:59:24 -0400

I still have a few more posts on the National Worker Cooperative Conference held in Berkeley last week, but this post isn't about the specific workshops, but a general feeling and vibe that I found at the conference (and at other conferences). The work of building a cooperative society isn't quite like other trade associations or business cultures.

Unions and Coops

John McNamara — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:36:07 -0400

I wasn't able to sit through the entire presentation, however, I wanted to capture as much as I could of this interesting presentation about the ability of labor unions and worker cooperatives to co-exist and to thrive.

David Roach's Mo' Better Food - Building Healthy Economics newsletter

ajowa — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:24:14 -0400

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.

Heading to Headquarters

John McNamara — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:15:26 -0400

A brief introduction from John McNamara in preparation for the Worker Cooperative Conference.