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Ed Morrison · Evergreen Cooperatives
August 22nd, 2010
Cleveland is becoming a nationally recognized hot spot for new cooperatives, thanks to Evergreen Cooperatives. Earlier this month, Ted Howard spoke at the bi-annual meeting of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives.
Here’s how the Berkeley Daily Planet reported it:
The United Nations has recognized and encouraged this growth, and has asked all governments to form a partnership with the cooperative movement to solve the global problems of unemployment and poverty, problems that the current economic system is not structured to solve, and that are poised to engulf the world in disasters of enormous magnitudes. The UN has declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives….
Another speaker, Ted Howard, is an architect of the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative of Cleveland, a nonprofit launched in 2008, with a mission of stabilizing and revitalizing six low-income neighborhoods in that city, with 43,000 residents and a median household income of $18,5000. Their cooperative development strategy leverages a portion of the annual procurement expenditures of anchor institutions such as local hospitals and universities, into the surrounding neighborhoods to create new co-op businesses and jobs. The first two Evergreen cooperatives, Evergreen Cooperative Laundry and Ohio Cooperative Solar, are both successfully launched, and two more co-op businesses are in their pipeline for this year. They plan an integrated network of 10 cooperatives with approximately 500 worker-owners, within 3 years.
You can learn more about Evergreen Cooperatives from their web site.
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August 24th, 2010 at 10:57 am
This is a fantastic initiative. The Cleveland Foundation should be commended for it’s bold approach. Cleveland can certainly be a model for creating sustainable community wealth.