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Category: movement ecology

4 Co-ops and 3 Funds Leading the US Cooperative Landscape

Felipe Witchger

The US Cooperative & Shared Ownership Landscape Watch 2.5-min video narration & explanation of this map.  With the deleterious impacts of shareholder supremacy increasingly apparent, cooperatives offer a stakeholder-owned firm model. Co-ops have achieved meaningful market penetration in a few areas:  multi-family housing (25% are co-ops), credit unions (hold 10% of household savings), rural electric […]

Interdependence & the Movement Ecology We Need

Felipe Witchger

I both love and have struggled with my partnership with Metro IAF. My close relationship with Metro IAF leaders is the primary reason we’ve had success in starting a co-op over the past 10 years. Their power is undeniable. In the past few months, Metro IAF has helped our co-op to expand to working with […]