I donated to this coop cafe trying to buy their own building together with a land trust - 'Sanctuary Space Hasta la Muerte' - http://gf.me/u/jitxna #CLT #landtrust #workercoops #hastamuerte
Me explaining #WorkerCoops to #ESOP folks as a guest on a recent ESOP podcast: https://t.co/mWfy7rMgj2 :)
#employeeownership #solidarityeconomy #economicdemocracy #sharedcapitalism
Is anybody aware of any platform coops for artists - portfolio, commissions, print-on-demand, craft sales, things like that? #socialcoop
The #Coop brewery network in the US is rumbling about starting up a yearly conference/gathering.
There are two #CoopBreweries in #Minneapolis, so thinking of trying to align it with the #CoopPrincipal inter-club gathering that sounds like it will be taking place there the weekend of October 6-7, as well as with the #blackonomics conference.
@mattcropp Three startup brewery co-ops here in North Carolina.
social enterprise/coop law event Show more
Eviction defense efforts Oakland, California, USA Show more
I found it helpful to make this diagram. Please help identify errors.
Apparently Jeff Bezos makes $28,000 (the median yearly salary of an Amazon employee) every 9 seconds.
He's on the way to becoming the world's first trillionaire.
The inequality is mind boggling. How do you actually, concretely, undo this kind of madness?
Socially Cooperative Friends!
Please read our discussion starter on equity and diversity in operations and tell us what you think. What's useful? What's not? What questions do you have? What changes can you suggest?
#equity #diversity #operations #socialcoop
@clhendricksbc, @emi, @mattcropp, @Matt_Noyes, @meia, @merouan, and @rbenjamin
#Coop sightings at Heathrow: a flashy ad about what Microsoft is doing for the (consumer owned) Co-op grocery stores, and some kids doing a web search for (worker owned) John Lewis Partnership. Probly more I didn't notice.
Una introducció sobre l'empresa #cooperativa de treball i el seu funcionament
http://www.cooperativestreball.coop/esdeveniments/2018/05/23/crea-teva-cooperativa-0
"More U.S. Businesses are Becoming #WorkerCoops: Here’s Why" in #FastCompany:
"And with millions of baby boomer-owned businesses set to change hands in the upcoming decades, this transition could be an opportunity to create more democratic workplaces across the country–if business owners, workers, and advocates can work together to convert these enterprises into #EmployeeOwned #cooperatives."
https://www.fastcompany.com/40572926/more-u-s-businesses-are-becoming-worker-co-ops-heres-why
#Languagetransfer is creating free language courses.
The best way to experience the methodology is to tune into one of the existing courses:
https://www.languagetransfer.org/audio-course (just listen to the first 4 tracks of any course and enjoy!)
Currently available (you have to know some English):
#Spanish
#French
#Italian
#Swahili
#German
#Arabic
#Turkish
#Greek
and
#Ingles (para hisbanoablantes)
Have fun!
Is anybody here familiar with the Edith Maryon Foundation in Switzerland? Starting in 1990, they've brought 100+ buildings in Germany & Switzerland into collective / cooperative management, for a variety of (mostly residential) social purposes. Pretty awesome! https://cooperativecity.org/2017/10/24/stiftung-maryon/
@ntnsndr @Matt_Noyes I second this. And sometimes one has to make a special effort to invite people to leadership positions instead of just hoping they choose to do so on their own. Which may not happen if a group tends already towards some kind of homogeneity so it may feel like one doesn’t quite fit there. But it can be tricky to do that without pressuring/overburdening, esp. if group already tends towards homogeneity bc then that can feel like extra burden maybe.
Friends -- I would like to collect best practices regarding diversity and equity in organizations like this one. Know any good examples? Have suggestions?
@Matt_Noyes visibly diverse leadership seems like a no-brainer, but in ways that avoid tokenizing and burdensome expectations.