STORIES OF COOPERATIVES AND NEW OWNERSHIP MODELS
GENESEE CO-OP FEDERAL CREDIT UNION
Founded in 1981 Genesee Co-Op Federal Credit Union has evolved to serve a broad constituency, as it lends with increasing intentionality and inventiveness to support its regional economy.
BED-STUY FRESH & LOCAL
A new-generation corner grocer with a big heart brings healthy, affordable foods to its neighborhood, and converts to a worker ownership.
THE WORKING WORLD
Offering financing to start up and early stage worker cooperatives structured such that investors realize returns only when the coops generate real, economic value.
ALEX PAYNE
Alex was exploring ways to take a more active and meaningful role in his personal investing and found a home with The Working World.
BRONX COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
A promising exemplar of truly regenerative, scalable economic development in progress, blending the intuitiveness of a community’s grassroots with more formal systemic approaches to building lasting community wealth and well being.
MARK PHILLIPS' COOPERATIVE VACATION
We are pleased to cross-post this delightful photojournalism piece by Mark Phillips, inspired by the Field Guide Co-Cycle story
VIROQUA FOOD COOP
A P6 Trade Movement member, this coop works to connect owners and consumers with the value of small, local, and cooperatively produced food.
THE DRIFTLESS, WISCONSIN
Geography is destiny in this rugged landscape, where a collaborative community of hardscrabble farmers and a remarkably diverse co-operative economy has emerged.
P6 COOPERATIVE TRADE MOVEMENT
The Principle 6 Cooperative Trade Movement is a growing network of retail and producer food cooperatives that is exploring creative ways to support a just and healthy food system and to encourage conversations around it.
BENDIGO BANK
The Bendigo Community Bank Model—part franchise, part cooperative—has helped recirculate capital into local economies and empowered communities to reshape their futures through a unique grant-making structure.
BRONX COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE
Guided by a deep intention to discover the essence of the people, resources, and place of the Bronx, BCDI enables members of a New York City community, judged one of the poorest by financial wealth standards, to co-create their regeneration.
CO-CYCLE
In the summer of 2012 and 2013 a group of college students and recent grads bicycled across America to visit cooperatives, to hone their own cooperative skills, and to reimagine the country they were about to inherit.
EVERGREEN COOPERATIVES
A remarkable experiment in cooperative-ownership and anchor-institution-based “green” job creation in Cleveland’s inner city unleashes the energy of workers to become actors in history in their own lifetimes.
LOPEZ COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
A cooperative, affordable-housing community land trust incubates entrepreneurialism and land stewardship on an island of breath-taking natural beauty off the coast of Washington State.