Financing

Credit Union Celebrates 25th Anniversary

michaeljohnson — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:27:22 -0400

Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union celebrates 25th Anniversary in New York City November 3rd

New Oakland Worker Cooperative Uses Profits to Create Jobs in Bay Area

Ethan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:56:16 -0400

Co-Soap Hopes Its Unique Business Model Will Spark Economic Growth and Justice.

Union leaders to pull funds from five banks, look to CUs

michaeljohnson — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:23:37 -0400

report from Credit Union National Association

Ohio's Casa Nueva Restaurant: Worker Ownership for 25 Successful Years; Builder of Regional Economy; Model for Food Literacy

ajowa — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:42:38 -0400

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.

A big idea for boosting our cooperative economy?

michaeljohnson — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:48:56 -0500

The New America Foundation (NAF) has made a large size policy proposal for basic economic development in the US. To these untrained eyes and ears it would seem that it is offering a public home for building on and expanding our cooperative economy here in the states. So I am passing it on to the more knowledgeable for assessment and action.

What can 2,500,000 Berkshares Buy

michaeljohnson — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:37:10 -0400

The real economy is people.

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.

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.

Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins: A Unique Financial Institution

Ethan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:52:43 -0400

By Yvon Poirier