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“We’re at a moment when getting a meeting about worker cooperatives with pretty high profile [political] offices was pretty easy... We have to show up and talk to them... and I’m excited abou...

A beautiful #CoopMonth day with ⁦@ColuminateCoop⁩ at the #Coop Cafe sharing successful food co-op strategies for building more welcoming and #inclusive co-ops - like ⁦@VermontCoop⁩! ⁦@NCB...

Our Todd Leverette and Roodline Volcy are talking through conversions to employee ownership and how to start up a worker-owner business here at #ECED19 👏🏽#GoCoop

Last conversation for the morning: Joseph @CO_REENTRY, Jill @sassafrastech and Rachel @UpandGoNYC talking #platformcoop digital organizing. “If I’m going to sell my labor on a gig platform, I m...

Next up, Jamila Medley @PhillyCoops, Rob Brown @coopdevinst, and Matt Kropp @veoc_vt talking community wealth building through #coop conversions. The data shows how hard it is to sell a business; r...

What a way to start the weekend - hearing from Kate Khatib @redemmas, @HeberBrown and @Estebantitos @USFWC talking self-determination, community resources, youth justice, @SeedCommons, and movement...

Celebrating so many co-op birthdays here at #ECWD19! Happy birthday: @UnionCabCoop - 40yrs! @redemmas - 15yrs @nycworker - 10yrs @USFWC - 15yrs @Shared_Capital - 40yrs! @GreenWorkerCoop - 15yrs

Final stop: Tubman House, a community space and garden started by local prison abolitionists. “Our vision is for people in this community to grow their own futures” #takebacktheland

Cherry Hill is a three part operation - community beds where folks can grow their own, a commercial garden growing food for sale in the community, and cultural celebrations...

“We’re not building a cooperative grocery store for fun. We’re not building it just because it’s politically aligned. We’re building it because it is necessary”. Eric @BlackYield

Next up, we’re visiting Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden by the @BlackYield Institute who are fighting food apartheid through black land ownership and food sovereignty

NWCDC's Miles Nowlin to Keynote NACH Conference in October! - nwcdc.coop/nwcdcs-miles-n…  Miles Nowlin present his talk entitled: "Housing Justice is Cooperative: Preservation, Empowerment, and...

We were lucky enough to visit the Curtis Bay #communitylandtrust that came out of organizing by students and @unitedworkers against a massive incinerator project in their community.

If you’re at #ECWD, check out our staff members Todd and Roodline, who will be presenting separately tomorrow on employee ownership conversions and starting a worker cooperative. #GoCoop

Next up, Joseph is telling us about @CO_REENTRY. They got started to support folks returning from prison, for whom one of the biggest barriers to success is finding a job. Recidivism in Baltimore i...