Category: COOPERATION
The Urban Dove Team
Urban Dove is dedicated to enriching the lives of New York City’s at-risk youth by creating and managing sports-based recreational activities in a supportive, positive environment where kids can develop the confidence they need to reach their full potential. Founded in 1998, Urban Dove believes that all children, regardless of their economic or social background, [...]
Human Chain Holding Hands Saves Boy
The father of a boy who was rescued after passersbys joined police to form a human chain to pull him from heavy surf in Napier yesterday says he cannot believe how close his son was to dying. Josh McQuiod, 12, had been playing with a friend by the water’s edge along Marine Parade when he [...]
Worker-Owned Cooperatives—A Resilient Model for Grassroots Economic Development
Meche Sansores, Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security – Posted March 4, 2013 | spotlightonpoverty.org The persistently sky-high unemployment in the U.S. has clouded an equally problematic trend—deteriorating working conditions and diminishing pay for unskilled and low-skilled work. Home healthcare workers, childcare providers, and housekeepers are the backbone of our economy, but they receive low [...]
Why Unions Are Going Into the Co-op Business
The steelworkers deal that could turn the rust belt green. by Amy Dean (Original Story at Yes! Magazine) posted Mar 05, 2013 “Too often we have seen Wall Street hollow out companies by draining their cash and assets and hollow out communities by shedding jobs and shuttering plants,” said United Steelworkers (USW) President Leo Gerard [...]
Detroit’s Good Food Cure
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food? by Larry Gabriel at Yes! Magazine Weekend mornings are the busiest days of the week at D-Town Farm. That’s when up to 30 volunteers from across Detroit come out to till the earth and tend the crops at the [...]
Panera to open first local pay-what-you-can cafe in Lakeview
Original Story Chicago Tribune June 20, 2012|By Emily Bryson York | Tribune reporter Panera is turning one of its first Chicago stores over to the community. The store at 616 W. Diversey Pkwy. is converting to a pay-what-you-can model Thursday with only suggested prices and donation boxes. This is the St. Louis-based company’s fourth “Panera [...]
Building the New Economy: Ten Steps We Can Take Now
How to choose people, place, and planet over profit, product, and power. Originally posted at Yes! Magazine by James Gustave Speth posted Jun 18, 2012 Are we ready for a new economy? And a new politics? First, some definitions. I think we can define the new economy as one where the overriding purpose of economic life [...]
SO MUCH GOOD! (from Buzzfeed)
Originally seen on Buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/pictures-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity 1. This picture of Chicago Christians who showed up at a gay pride parade to apologize for homophobia in the Church. … and the reaction from the parade. 2. This story about Japanese senior citizens who volunteered to tackle the nuclear crisis at Fukushima power station so that young people wouldn’t have [...]
Free Your (Eco)Mind
Think like an ecosystem, and you just might save the world. by Frances Moore Lappé Originally posted 2/1/12, Yes! Magazine An eco-mind thinks … Less about quantities and more about qualities. Less about fixed things and more about the ever-changing relationships that form them. Less about limits and more about alignment. Less about [...]
Our Co-Owned Future
From health care to jobs to community development, why the future will be cooperative. by Gar Alperovitz posted Mar 02, 2012 The explosive force of Occupy Wall Street—and more than a thousand other local efforts—offers hope that a movement committed to long-term change might one day achieve a fundamental transformation of the American political-economic system. [...]
