Ted Howard, in Part 2 of presentation to US Worker Coop Conference 2010 talks about Evergreen Cooperatives strategy for scaling solutions to impact the entire community of Cleveland. Part 1 on Introduction and thanks.
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EdVisions Schools, Inc. is a Minnesota non-profit educational development organization affiliated with EdVisions Cooperative, the first public school teacher cooperative in the nation.
EdVisions Schools help create and sustain a network of small, innovative high schools across the U.S. using the EdVisions Model. Our organization has two divisions; one focuses on school development, including ongoing school coaching, and two, the EdVisions leader center, supports school development through best practice dissemination, institutes, research, and a variety of technical assessment tools.
The belief is that teacher leadership is not about power, but about mobilizing the largely untapped attributes of teachers to strengthen student performance by working collaboratively in a shared capacity. Cooperatives are about working collaboratively and sharing in planning, action, and in results. Cooperatives are democratically owned and managed. The founders of EdVisions Cooperative believe in teacher voice and teacher empowerment. They also believe in modeling democratic action as a means toward teaching adolescents how to live in a democracy.
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Oct 042010
Ted Howard of Evergreen Cooperatives, Cleveland at the US Worker Cooperative Federation Conference, Berkeley 2010
Part 1: Introductions and Thanks
Source: http://www.evergreencoop.com/
Aug 262010
The rooster crows but the hen delivers says Jim Hightower, author of Swim Against the Current: Worker Cooperatives and a New, Deeply Democratic Model for This Country
http://www.vimeo.com/14443766Texas populist, commentator, and author Jim Hightower has a few words of wisdom for us: Question authority, trust your values, seek alternatives, break away, stand up for your beliefs, and swim against the current!
His latest book, Swim Against the Current, which features worker cooperatives, introduces readers to people across the country who have actually done this-people in business, politics, health care, farming, religion, and other areas who are taking charge, living their values, doing good, and doing well.
Hightower and co-author Susan DeMarco show how they are doing precisely what the elites want us to believe can’t be done: changing their lives and making a difference. He tells the stories of these people and offers inspiration and information that will help readers tap into their own maverick potential in order to navigate a different, more satisfying course of their own.
Whether they are young and just starting out or older and searching for a different path, the commonsense folks in this book have escaped the corporate tentacles to find their own way toward a richer life and a better American future. They are creating a new, deeply democratic model for the country, edging it back onto the long road toward egalitarianism and the common good.
Hello, Cleveland! Evergreen’s Place-Based Strategy for Worker Cooperative Development
The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative of Cleveland OH was launched in 2008. Its mission is to stabilize and revitalize six low-income neighborhoods (43,000 residents; median household income of $18,5000) of the Greater University Circle areas of Cleveland, Ohio.
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http://www.vimeo.com/14387332The cooperative development strategy leverages a portion of the multi-billion dollar annual business expenditures (related to procurement and supply-chain) of anchor institutions (such as hospitals and universities) into the surrounding neighborhoods to create new businesses and jobs. The first two Evergreen cooperatives (Evergreen Cooperative Laundry and Ohio Cooperative Solar) launched in October 2009; two more businesses are in the pipeline for 2010. The near-term (3 year) goal is to develop an integrated network of 10 cooperatives with approximately 500 worker-owners.
This presentation will focus on three topics: (1) the overall Evergreen strategy and how it is being financed and implemented; (2) building a culture of ownership within the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry; and (3) Evergreen’s approach to governance, patronage, and long-term institutional viability.
Ted Howard is the founding Executive Director of The Democracy Collaborative, a research and policy center at the University of Maryland focused on community stabilization and wealth building. He is an architect of the Evergreen Initiative and has been appointed the Cleveland Foundation’s Steven Minter Senior Fellow for Social Justice. Medrick Addison is the Operational Supervisor of the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a member of the first group of worker-owners to join the coop and serves on the senior management team.
Source: usworker.coop
A presentation by Chris Michael of Workers Development in the City of New York on direct public offerings for worker-cooperatives at the US Worker Coop Conference 2010, Berkeley
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Workers Development in the City of New York is a for-profit business aimed at the development of worker cooperative businesses in the New York City metropolitan area. Our business structure is also organized as a worker cooperative. Presently, we are at work on our first worker cooperative restaurant. Visit workersdiner.org for more information.
Creative Financing for Your Worker Cooperative
Jenny Kassan, Katovich Law Group and Sustainable Economies Law Center; Chris Michael, Workers Development; Christina Jennings, NCDF; Mike Leung, Worker Cooperative Credit Union
This panel will cover the legal framework for the financing of worker cooperatives and provide examples of creative financing techniques including the creation of a credit union to help finance worker cooperatives and conducting a direct public stock offering to non-members.
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