“The Council will invest an additional $2.1 million to expand the Council’s successful Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative and create 22 new worker cooperatives.”

Many thanks to all of our coalition partners––and especially to the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies––for making this possible. And a broader thanks to all of the petition signers, call-in day volunteers, and rally attendees.

Finally, we are deeply thankful to our City Council and Mayor for their continued support of worker cooperative business development.

See City Council’s press release:

http://council.nyc.gov/html/pr/062215budget.shtml

Cyclonomia is a participative and convivial bicycle repair and Do-It-Yourself workshop. Cyclonomia social cooperative opened its doors in Budapest on June 15, 2013. Since then more than 300 members have helped it thrive by coming to repair their bicycles in a participatory and convivial atmosphere.

Cyclonomia is also a low-tech design and construction workshop implementing sustainable solutions in particular for transport in urban areas.

It plays a key role within the Cargonomia project constructing the cargobikes and the trailers used to distribute locally produced organic food and other items to citizens in Budapest.

In Budapest, as in many other places around the world, transition is well underway along with its partners intend to be part of the network of alternatives by offering new ways of living, producing and sharing based on conviviality, social justice and sustainability.

Cyclonomia
www.cyclonomia.org

There is a new book about time banking that looks great:

Equal Time, Equal Value: Community Currencies and Time Banking in the US, by Ed Collom, Judith N. Lasker, and Corinne Kyriacou. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012.

It is rather expensive, but the Library of Congress has two copies, so anyone 18 and over can read it at the Library of Congress. It is super easy and fast to get a library card. And with your library card, you can sit in the cool rooms of the Library of Congress. In general, the Library of Congress is Great.

Here is the beginning of the book.

Here is a part of review from Contemporary Sociology:

In Equal Time, Equal Value, Ed Collom, Judith Lasker, and Corinne Kyriacou present the first, and most exhaustive, systematic investigation of the most popular type of localized exchange system in the United States — Time Banking. Drawing on data collected using multiple methods — a national survey of Time Bank coordinators; interviews with founders, coordinators, and participants; participant observation; three in-depth case study surveys; and secondary data analysis — the authors move beyond limited snapshots of individual organizations to present a focused and well-manicured Time Banking textbook, complete with history, organizational types and demographics, profiles of participants and their motivations for joining, and perceived benefits/outcomes…

Here is the DC Time Bank: https://dc.timebanks.org/.

Union-Represented Worker Co-ops | LRAN National Conference

Learning Journey to Philadelphia June 25-28

Greetings from the Maryland Food Collective, a worker-owned food coop located on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park! The Maryland Food Co-op started in the mid-1970’s on the campus of University of Maryland. We are worker-owned which means that everyone who is hired as a “paid worker” shares an equal role and all responsibilities in operating the business of our natural food store. We also welcome people to volunteer at our store in exchange for food credit. Together, the workers and volunteers co-operate to provide cheap, healthy, veg-friendly food at fair prices. There are no bosses or managers, only people who are working for a space that maintains equality, a good atmosphere, and lots of music.

We proudly offer our catering services to you this summer for any event, large or small.

Hoyt was elected to the board of the National Cooperative Bank in 1982. In 1985 she joined the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Department of Consumer Science and the UW Center for Cooperatives. In 1992 she began serving on the board of the National Cooperative Business Association where she served as chair from 2004 – 2006.  In 1994 she was elected to the board of the University of Wisconsin Credit Union where she served as chair from 1996 to 2005.

Always active in the national food cooperatives, Ann began her 25 year directorship of the annual Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) in 1988. Her love of teaching led to work in board education and governance, and the launch of an intensive education program for food cooperative managers, the Cooperative Management Institute (CMI). She has trained several thousand cooperative and non-profit directors and managers throughout the country and is the creator of a video-based director training program for cooperatives.  Hoyt is the recipient of the 2014 Cooperative Service Award from CCMA and the Howard Bowers Fund.

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