Cooperative Development Center at Kent State University

08/18/2020

08/10/2020

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

07/30/2020

Good to see the worker cooperative model taking root in yet another local community

03/10/2020

Good luck to all those over at Orca Books looking to use the cooperative model for business succession

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

03/09/2020

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

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

10/07/2019

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.

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.

10/04/2019

Its National Co-op Month, and there's much to be proud of.

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...

10/04/2019

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

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

09/05/2019

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.

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

05/10/2016

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.

04/10/2014

Join us for the 28th Annual Ohio Employee Ownership Conference April 24th in Akron, Ohio. And, don't forget our full slate of pre-conference events:
4th Annual Ohio Cooperative Forum - 3-5 pm
CEO/CFO Forum - 3-5 pm
ESOP Communications Roundtable - 3-5 pm
ESOPs for Exit Planners - 3-5 pm
Employee Ownership Reception (co-sponsored by the Exit Planning Institute) 5-6 pm (serving fantastic New Belgium beer!!)
Movie Showing: We The Owners, along with a Q&A with Mary Ann Beyster, Executive Producer - 6-8 pm
Clink the link below for more details!!

A Wealth of Opportunity: Employee Ownership Fuels Growth Still the best one day employee ownership conference in the nation! Thursday April 24th, 2014 Akron Fairlawn Hilton Download 2014 Conference Agenda Here Keynote Speakers Morning Keynote – Karl Warnke, President and CEO of Davey Tree Expe...