The Shared Ownership Center @ Nexus explains what a cooperative is, the impact worker-owned cooperatives and real estate investment cooperatives have on our communities, and the qualification criteria for the LOCAL Fund’s grants and technical assistance. The LOCAL Fund: Worker Ownership offers grants and technical assistance for worker co-op startups, conversions of existing businesses, and
Join Nexus Community Partners and Project Equity for a free webinar July 24 at noon. Learn how to sell your business to your employees, and how employee ownership can be used to build a succession plan and a tool for employee retention and business resiliency. Register here! Employee ownership can offer: Lower turnover: Workers at
The National Conference on Black Cooperative Agenda was a thought-provoking, community-building, and spiritually nourishing gathering of Cooperative folks across the country. Thank you to all the attendees, volunteers, and organizers who made it happen. If you missed it, you can listen to this broadcast from the conference! Everything Co-op’s Vernon Oakes interviews St. Paul Mayor