Ownership Matters
We’re launching a newsletter covering co-ops and the solidarity economy — and the investment flowing in. Our goal is to help you find the others like you.
Category: movement ecology
4 Co-ops and 3 Funds Leading the US Cooperative Landscape
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
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 […]