Cooperative Development Center at Kent State University

Vote here 👉🏽 g.co/OhioChallenge !!!

👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾We’re forming a STATEWIDE Worker Cooperative Network in Ohio! That’s right. After years of collaboration between Co-op Cincy, CO-OP Dayton and Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC), we’ve secured the resources to expand and deepen our partnerships, by winning

And it’s not over yet! You can vote for Ohio’s worker-owners to win the People’s Choice award, which would allow us to hire a full-time organizer for the state! Vote here 👉🏽 g.co/OhioChallenge

Good to see the worker cooperative model taking root in yet another local community https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2020/jul/30/shaky-economy-local-businesses-are-turning-worker/

Local Businesses Embrace a Worker-Owned Cooperative Model They Say Could Transform the Humboldt Economy  

We wish Bluestockings Bookstore the best in their search for a new location during these difficult times. https://www.boweryboogie.com/2020/07/bluestockings-shutters-allen-street-bookstore-amidst-pandemic-rent-hike/

Bluestockings Shutters Allen Street Bookstore Amidst Pandemic Rent Hike Bluestockings, the long-running feminist bookstore on Allen Street, is closing down for good. Leaving the space it’s called home for two decades. Apparently the shutter is a double-whammy – due to both pandemic times and a landlord demanding more money. “Due to so many unforeseen c...

Good luck to all those over at Orca Books looking to use the cooperative model for business succession http://bit.ly/Coop_succession

Bookstore looks to co-op route to stay at heart of its community - Co-operative News Orca Books in Olympia WA is one of a wave of US businesses looking to alternative models of ownership as a generation of proprietors nears retirement

https://highlandcountypress.com/Content/In-The-News/In-The-News/Article/Ohio-first-lady-Fran-DeWine-Ohio-s-Electric-Cooperatives-announce-official-launch-of-Ohio-Governor-s-Imagination-Library-in-Highland-County/2/20/55881

Ohio first lady Fran DeWine, Ohio's Electric Cooperatives announce official launch of Ohio Governor’s Imagination Library in Highland County Local public officials, business leaders and educators, as well as some young library patrons, joined Ohio first lady Fran DeWine at the Hillsboro Public Librar

Detroit Today on WDET 101.9FM hosts an inspiring discussion with Center for Community Based Enterprise, Pingree Detroit and Detroit Community Wealth Fund on the growing effort to create worker cooperatives in the Detroit Metro Area. https://wdet.org/posts/2019/10/04/88700-these-three-businesses-are-creating-a-worker-owned-economy-in-detroit/

These Three Businesses Are Creating A Worker-Owned Economy in Detroit Worker-owned cooperatives are still a rarity in the American economy, but these Detroit businesses say they have key advantages. And it's not just profit-sharing.

Its National Co-op Month, and there's much to be proud of.
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/10/02/october-national-co-op-month

October is National Co-Op Month Happy National Co-Op Month! It’s reason to celebrate because in America there are more than 40,000 cooperatives of all types, supporting jobs that provide more than $25 billion in wages. According to a study by the University of Wisconsin (PDF, 2.7 MB), funded in part by USDA, cooperatives have an...

Congrats to Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative CUCI and Apple Street Market Cooperative for being awarded a grant from the US Department of Agriculture’s Healthy Foods Financing Initiative to help finance the Apple Street Market, a grocery store owned by both its customers and workers
https://www.applestreetmarket.coop/apple-street-market-receives-grant-to-improve-healthy-food-access-in-cincinnati/

Apple Street Receives Healthy Food Access Grant We're delighted to finally announce: Apple Street Market has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the US Department of Agriculture's Healthy Foods Financing Initiative (HFFI)! HFFI funds "projects to expand access to healthy foods in underserved rural and urban areas, to create and preserve qua

Electrical Cooperatives are cooperating with one another through a "mutual aid agreement" that spans multiple states to help those affected by Hurricane Dorian in South Carolina.

https://www.aikenstandard.com/news/energy-companies-prepare-for-hurricane-dorian/article_558b5ffe-ce75-11e9-87cc-f3c19869eed8.html

Energy companies prepare for Hurricane Dorian As Hurricane Dorian approaches the South Carolina coast, power companies are preparing for the storm and encourage customers to do the same.

Does Portage County need a local food hub? Attend a meeting in your area and make your voice heard!

The first is from 1-2 pm. at the Kent Free Library 312 W. Main St., Kent

The second is from 6:30-7:30 pm at Hiram College’s Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurship Center in East Hall, 11775 Winrock Dr., Hiram Village

Registration is recommended but not required. Email: [email protected] to RSVP.