Community Development

Sharing Power: Building a Solidarity Economy

michaeljohnson — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:42:56 -0400

expanding our desires to share to address social inequity

Green Mayor Promotes Mondragon Model in California

michaeljohnson — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:28:33 -0400

The Mayor of Richmond, California, Gayle McLaughlin, recently held a public presentation why she believes Mondragon should serve as a guiding example for how economic development should proceed in her city.

Richmond, California's Green Party Mayor Signs "Letter of Intent" with Spain's Mondragon Coops

michaeljohnson — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:00:16 -0400

At the conclusion of the seminar, Mondragon's Director of Cooperative Dissemination, Mikel Lezamiz, and I signed a letter of intent and endorsement to pave the way for initiating conversations with stakeholders in Richmond and beyond. I want to share with you what I learned and also hear your ideas.
To this end I would like to invite all who are interested to a presentation and discussion on Mondragon and the potential for worker cooperatives in Richmond. The same presentation will be given on two dates...

Worker Cooperative Section of the San Francisco Congress

michaeljohnson — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:02:45 -0400

Below is a report from Steve Rice (volunteer with the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives [NoBAWC]), Poonam Whabi (Design Action Collective), and Rick Simon (Just Alternatives for a Sustainable Economy) on the Worker Co-operative component of the Congress. This component calls on local government to...

Doing Green Jobs Right

michaeljohnson — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:26:22 -0400

An article in The Nation magazine tells how Boston's Green Justice Coalition is creating "a model to connect the struggle for environmental justice with the fight for living-wage jobs, helping to lay the groundwork for a new generation of community-labor coalitions across the country."

THE EVERGREEN CO-OP MODEL: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITH A PLAN TO STABILIZE A COMMUNITY

ajowa — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:01:45 -0400

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.

The John Logue ACE Award; other ACE Awards

ajowa — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:32:49 -0400

The Association of Cooperative Educators established the John Logue ACE award at its 58th annual conference in Cleveland July27-30, 2010. Ohio Employee Ownership Center staff members, Bill McIntyre and Logue's wife, Olga Klepikova, talk about Logue's work, vision, "moxie" and his impact on Ohio and the U.S. Other ACE awardees for 2010 are also mentioned.

The exciting Association of Cooperative Educators conference in Cleveland July 27-30!

ajowa — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 12:22:07 -0400

On the scene our "woman at conference" reporting from Cleveland, OH, home of the Evergreen Cooperatives.

Evergreen: Can "Anchor Institutions" Help Revitalize Declining Neighborhoods by Buying from Local Cooperatives?

jim — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:30:16 -0400

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/402

by Jacquelyn Yates, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Kent State University

Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in Cleveland, Ohio

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:31:18 -0400

Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in Cleveland, Ohio
Worker coops in Cleveland to build wealth for inner-city residents

A group of Cleveland non-profits is backing a socially-conscious, eco-development in an inner-city neighborhood. They hope the environmentally-friendly workers cooperative will help build wealth for impoverished residents. Evergreen Laundry is the first of several cooperative ventures envisioned for the University Circle neighborhood.