They have provided necessary goods and services like food, housing, financing and utilities to members in our region since the 1930s. Cooperatives reinvest profits in the business or pay dividends to members. Together we can make it.

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New Video About Worker Ownership. How do cooperatives benefit their whole communities? Find out in this story about a worker-owned coffeeshop in Maine. Cooperatives Build a Better Maine. CDI has released a report on how co-ops are the solution to grow jobs, businesses, and local ownership in Maine. Is a co-op conversion right for your business? We can help you determine whether, when, and how the conversion will work. As part of our long-term strategic vision .

Common Bound provided a place to create new relationships, to strengthen ties, for critical information and knowledge sharing, and to see that so many kindred spirits are moving this work forward in creative and diverse ways. To paraphrase Gibran - this work we saw at Common Bound is love made visible.

The specific objectives of our organization are to assist individuals and communities- particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged rural and urban areas- in the creation, expansion, and improvement of community-based enterprises with a focus on those that are cooperatively or mutually owned and governed. Ongoing business education, technical assistance, organizational consulting, training, and support.

Worker cooperators, unions, developers, allies, funders, investors, and visionaries join us this September! This moment in U. history is pivotal we are taking this opportunity to catalyze workers across the country, joining with the larger cooperative and economic justice movements to create and maintain stable, empowering jobs through employee ownership. Stay tuned for more information about sessions and registration, coming in January 2018.

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