Social coops offer a wholly new model of social care. They are community-led, multi-stakeholder, democratically governed, and highly relational. Community benefit, not maximum profit, is prioritized to provide high-quality care.
October is Employee Ownership Month. Employee ownership can take many forms, from 100% employee ownership through an ESOP or a cooperative to synthetic equity plans where no actual.
"These workers have dreams, hopes. A lot of them are saying: 'We don't want to be abused, be taken advantage of – not being paid or being overworked.' ”
Colorado Mushroom Farm and Sand Dunes Mushroom Cooperative both hope to begin providing mushrooms in the state as the farm tries to emerge from bankruptcy and the cooperative seeks funding.