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Ideas We Should Steal: More Worker-Owned Businesses

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

November 12, 2024 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Democracy Brewing is a worker cooperative, which means worker-owners split the profits and have an equal say in business decisions that affect working conditions. Studies show that this type of business structure results in higher wages and household wealth for workers of color, and these workers also tend to stay in their positions longer.

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To save affordable housing, states promote resident-owned mobile home parks

Kevin Hardy

October 30, 2024 |

Stateline |

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Response Location: United States

Residents of mobile home communities are coming together to collectively buy the land their houses are on and establish cooperatives. It ensures their rent stays affordable long term, and some state governments are making it easier to do so to help address housing affordability crises.

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North Center's Common Pantry Provides Free Nutritional Education Amid Increased Demand

Alex V. Hernandez

September 06, 2024 |

Block Club Chicago |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Common Pantry provides assistance to those facing food insecurity, and recently opened a new facility to offer housing information and assistance with job searches, government benefits, health care and other services. The Pantry also started a nutrition program, teaching people about the science between food and health, as well as how to cook healthy meals at home.

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El Paso solar cooperative helps homeowners save thousands on rooftop solar. It may be back next year.

Diego Mendoza-Moyers

August 25, 2024 |

El Paso Matters |

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Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

Several nonprofits are running a solar cooperative in El Paso, Texas, that helps homeowners come together to buy and install solar panels in bulk, which makes them more affordable.

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Parents Of Kaduna Brides May Now Sigh In Relief

Aisha Gambo

August 16, 2024 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

Meerah’s Kitchen Utensils & More is a monthly contribution plan helping mothers save the money necessary to provide for their newly married daughters, as is tradition in Nigeria. Women contribute a set fee to the group each month for 10 months, after which they can take whatever they need from the store, including pots, cooking utensils and other necessities. Women contribute by joining a WhatsApp group, and there are currently over 200 members.

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Meal to meal: New Jersey neighborhood center addresses food desert

Dan Stockman

June 06, 2024 |

National Catholic Reporter |

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Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

Through volunteers and partnerships with other local organizations, the Sisters of St. Joseph Neighborhood Center distributes a month’s worth of food to families in need for free, as a large portion of the population is undocumented, unemployed, or otherwise ineligible for government assistance. The Center also provides services such as English language classes, a clothes closet, a diaper bank and assistance getting a driver’s license.

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Just coffee in an unjust world

Amy Frykholm

May 29, 2024 |

The Christian Century |

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Response Location: Mexico, Agua Prieta, Sonora

Café Justo offers an alternative model to traditional fair-trade operations, keeping the entire means of coffee production in the farmers’ hands. They connect the farmer directly to the consumer, eliminating the need for people in the middle who would often gather up the profits. In Salvador Urbina, the Café Justo cooperative has about 80 farming families and sends out more than 1,000 pounds of coffee a month.

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One Strategy for the Arts to Beat Gentrification: Buy the Building

Anjulie Rao

May 19, 2024 |

Bloomberg |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Arts nonprofits across the U.S. are using creative, often complex, financial and organizational models to continue to provide a stable place for artists to thrive despite high real estate prices. In one example, a gallery director in Chicago created a nonprofit and a noncharitable LLC to purchase and redevelop a building that will have space for a retail tenant on the first floor.

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Sin Título extends their brand from T-shirt slogans to mental health events

Doreen Abril Albuerne Rodriguez

May 15, 2024 |

The Columbia Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Sin Título started as a socially conscious clothing brand but has since evolved into a mutli-faceted brand that hosts mental health discussion panels and other events that aim to amplify marginalized voices and offer healing opportunities for the local Latinx population. One such event is their journaling series, the first of which, “Self Love Journal Club,” attracted about 100 people.

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B-CU, church food distribution program benefits students and the community

Timothy Moss

April 25, 2024 |

Daytona Times |

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Response Location: United States, Daytona Beach, Florida

The mobile food distribution program by the Mind of Christ Ministries and Bethune-Cookman University has been feeding families since 2013. The program addresses local food insecurity while also providing university students with a meaningful way to give back to the community and earn required volunteer hours. The program estimates it reaches more than 200,000 people each year.

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