- Make education for worker ownership more accessible
- Develop finance structures and organizations to help new co-ops
- Strengthen connections between worker cooperatives so they can support one another
Where to start:
Removing Barriers to the Cooperative Economy
Worker cooperatives are quite rare in the US. Because of this, there is not a lot of information to tell us if they are more likely to succeed or fail than regular businesses. But it doesn’t mean that they are more likely to fail. The problem is that worker cooperatives have a harder time getting
Resilience of Cooperatives
Cooperatives have been found to be more resilient than conventional businesses, on average, according to a growing body of evidence from studies conducted in the United States and elsewhere. These models go beyond just collective ownership of property and aim to foster community self-reliance, community-led development, and the redistribution of power from exploitative systems. Survival
Converting the Colorado Recovery Center Into an Employee-owned Business
In 2006, the Colorado Recovery Center, a Boulder-based residential treatment facility for adults suffering from serious mental illness was founded. Two years after opening the owner became too ill to run the business. The owner did not want outside investors to purchase the Center and treat it merely as a means of acquiring a return
