Cooperatives
Ohio Employee Ownership Center and EBO Group demonstrate success of employee owned companies
For over 30 years the Ohio Employee Ownership Center [OEOC] at Kent State University has provided technical assistance, financial expertise, and the training to help businesses become employee owned and successful. They have played a key role in designing and launching the Evergreen cooperatives in Cleveland. [View our recent post about the Evergreen cooperatives>] “On [...]
Is There a Cooperative Near You? Check Out This Interactive Map!
Once you start looking, you discover there are cooperative enterprises all around us. Did you know that Handwork in Ithaca New York is a worker cooperative? C4 Tech & Design in New Orleans? Blue Ridge Biofuels in Asheville NC? Equal Exchange coffee importer in West Bridgewater MA? CH2MHILL in Englewood, CO? Select Machine in Kent, [...]
International Year of Cooperatives 2012
“The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, highlighting the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development, in particular recognizing their impact on poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration.” More on the International Year of Cooperatives > The U.S. Senate is on record recognizing 2012 as International Year of [...]
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