Sneak Peak at some of our new Spring 2014 Registrants

Here’s a peek at the next wave of worker cooperatives soon to make their mark on the world. Each is currently fundraising to cover their registration fee for the Coop Academy.

Artistas Curanderas / Healing Artists

MANIFESTING Global Healing, Empowerment, and Transformation through the Arts.

Please visit their gofundme page and invest in this creative, powerful and woman owned new cooperative.

The ShoppeBx

HELP US START OUR COOPERATIVE thats worker-owned and controlled. The ShoppeBx, home of the South Bronx Artist Cooperative. SBAC at The ShoppeBx is our revival. What once seemed too challenging to contemplate is now in the realm of possibility as a co-op.

“Please help spread the word and a dollar or two.www.gofundme.com/theShoppeBx 
Whatever help you can give is appreciated to make wishes come true.” Edith and Jaime

Resurrection Project

HELP US TO START A WOKER OWNED COOPERATIVE To help Educate, Facilitate Empowerment and transfom lives through the arts, an Art Program that’s worker owned and controlled.

We are Medical, Social, and Educational industry workers that want to utilize the power of the arts to inspire people to tap into their creative abilities to recreate their lives and environments.

Through the arts we will provide workshops for people from all walks of life, ages 11 years and above, art focused workshops that will promote community awarenes , education, build self esteem, and facilitate empowerment

Green Worker Cooperatives to participate in Talking Transitions: Building a New Economy that Works for All New Yorkers

Building a New Economy that Works for All New Yorkers

New Economy Project

How can NYC build a new economy that works for all New Yorkers? Join us for a discussion of neighborhood-based economic models – such as worker coops, community land trusts, and cooperative financial institutions – that provide concrete, equitable alternatives to an economic system that has produced staggering wealth inequality. We will also discuss the need for a public bank and the global movement to tax financial transactions (“Robin Hood Tax”) to generate revenue for the public good.

**Panelists and Facilitators Include: Omar Freilla, Founder/Organizer, Green Worker Cooperatives; Linda Levy, CEO Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union; Sarah Ludwig, Founder/Co-Director, New Economy Project; Scott Hutchins, Housing Campaign Leader, Picture the Homeless; Robert “Bobby” Tolbert, Board Member, VOCAL-NY; Brendan Martin, Founding Director, The Working World.

Canal Street & 6th Avenue

Hudson Square’s Duarte Square

New York, NY 10013

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Co-opoly Game Night

Join us Friday, November 8th for a fun evening unleashing your inner cooperator. No lessons about greed, domination, and getting everyone else thrown in jail happening here. In Co-opoly, you work as a team to survive your first year in business together as a cooperative, and eventually grow the business and help launch other cooperatives. It’s a game where either everyone wins or everyone loses and has elements of Charades, Pictionary, Taboo, and Monopoly all mixed into one fun package.

We’ e got plenty of copies of Co-opoly, so bring the whole family. bring your friends and neighbors too. We’ll have storytelling time for the wee little ones.

Friday, Nov 8th, 6:30pm
Betances Community Center
464 St Ann’s Avenue (at 146th St)
just 5 blocks from the 2/5 train to East 149th St-3rd Ave.

Think Outside the Boss: Worker Co-op 101

Join us today, Tuesday, October 29th at Nos Quedamos (754 Melrose Ave., the Bronx) to learn about the benefits & challenges of worker-owned cooperatives and how to start one. Got an idea for a co-op? Looking for partners? This is the place to be. 

Cooperative Home Care Associatiates

Partner Highlight

(CHCA) is a nationally recognized, worker-owned home care agency in the Bronx. CHCA was founded in 1985 to provide quality home care to clients by providing quality jobs for direct-care workers.

CHCA started with 12 home health aides. The cooperative now employs more than 2,000 staff. Together with PHI, a nonprofit founded by CHCA in 1992, CHCA maintains an employer-based workforce development program that provides free training for 600 low-income and unemployed women annually and serves as a significant driver of employment in the Bronx.

Listen to our informal interview with CEO Michael Elsas and Coop Academy Coordinator Jackie Srebrenick.