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  • Marketing Trends & Co-op Businesses

    Cooperative businesses are in good place to market themselves. I checked into a few sources (with some search help from AI) and found a theme: the purpose and values of your business are, and will be, an important marketing distinction for your customers. This idea isn’t new. A marketing webinar put out by the United… Read more

  • Co-op Leadership En Masse

    The Massachusetts cooperative movement is advancing state legislative efforts with its latest effort called Opportunity to Own (OTO). Thanks to the Center for Economic Democracy, the Coalition for Worker Ownership and Power (COWOP), and legislative advocates, there is pending legislation going through the State House now. COWOP’s Opportunity to Own is carefully crafted policy designed… Read more

  • Worker Ownership, America, and Peter Drucker

    I forget what exactly prompted my interest in Peter Drucker lately. His name came up in connection to some progressive traits regarding business management. With that in mind, an AI search revealed that one of his contributions to business management is “the need for organizations to focus on their social responsibilities”. This seemed compelling enough… Read more

  • Uniting Workers

    This post is for a fearless fighter for worker’s rights. Jane McAlevey who passed away in July 2024 from cancer. Jane was a relentless defender of workers and an engaging author – the combination of which has left detailed and compelling accounts of her knowledge in four books she wrote. I recently read her first… Read more

  • East Boston Cooperation

    On August 1st, I went to a “Resist and Build Gathering” in Boston hosted by the Center for Economic Democracy. An especially prominent organization that attended was one I have seen at other conferences called the Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity (Centro Cooperativo de Dessarollo y Solidaridad): CCDS. I’ve admired the presence CCDS has… Read more

  • Co-op Cultivation in Brockton

    The Co-op Cultivators of Greater Brockton (CCGB) have kept the momentum going in 2025 to promote and develop cooperative business practices in the greater Brockton area. Since its formation in 2018, CCGB as a project of Brockton Interfaith Community (BIC), has made it its mission to build a cooperative ecosystem in the greater Brockton area.… Read more

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