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    Elias Crim, Kate Poole, Tiffany Brown

    Making Beautiful Experiments with Money

    “You have to know what you own,” Tiffany Brown and Kate Poole tell the people who join Chordata Capital’s investor cohorts. Theirs is an approach to managing wealth that foregrounds interconnectedness and counsels refusal to look away from the manifold harm cumulative capital causes under the existing economy’s terms.

    Issue 7|27 July 2021

    CFNE Profile; Mondragon’s Sovereignty of Labor; Community Equity Fund Launch

    Elias Crim, Micha Josephy

    Fund Profile: Cooperative Fund of New England

    CFNE’s Executive Director talks about the 45-year-old fund’s position of strength entering the pandemic period last year as well as the evolution in focus and strategy it continues to undergo.

    Rebecca Fisher-McGinty

    Mondragon and the Sovereignty of Labor

    Rebecca Fisher-McGinty spent time in Mondragon, in Spain, in the course of studies in cooperative management. She came away with lessons in the power and priority of the worker in a community whose members are the owners of its economic institutions.

    Issue 6|13 July 2021

    What is a Co-op Holding Company?

    Elias Crim, Joseph Cureton

    Fund Profile: Obran Cooperative

    Co-founder Joseph Cureton talks about Obran’s holding-company structure, the strategic vision underlying, and some challenges encountered on the path to realizing that vision.

    Greg Brodsky

    How to Invest in Cooperatives (Part Two)

    What exactly is the character of difference between investing in cooperative enterprises and conventional investing? Here’s an overview of the whys and wherefores.

    Issue 5|29 June 2021

    How to Invest in Cooperatives

    Greg Brodsky

    How to Invest in Cooperatives (Part One)

    Cooperative entrepreneurs and business investors who want their investments to fight wealth inequality face some obstacles to working together. These challenges can be overcome with understanding.

    Issue 4|15 June 2021

    Can Co-ops Empower Patients and Homecare Workers?

    Elias Crim, Kathy Gregg

    What the Movement for Worker Ownership Really Needs

    Kathy Gregg argues that the cause for worker-owned businesses in the U.S. is burdened by over-emphasis on “scalability” and under-emphasis on (right-sized) growth.

    Leo Sammallahti

    Europe Report: The “Secret” of Finnish Cooperativism

    Finland stands out in Europe for the success of its cooperative sector. Why, how? Some insight can be drawn from a look at the later years of the 19th century — and, again, of the 20th.

    Issue 3|1 June 2021

    Building World-Class Jobs

    Elias Crim

    Fund Profile: Main Street Phoenix Project

    Launched to meet the challenge of pandemic and disaster capitalism, the Main Street Phoenix Project turns acquisition, restructure and sale convention on its head — handing employees the keys and giving them the tools to stay in business as well.

    Elias Crim, Camille Kerr

    A Conversation with Camille Kerr of ChiFresh Kitchen

    “We focus on formerly incarcerated people because that’s where the barriers are.” ChiFresh Kitchen, jump-started under unlikely conditions in early 2020, has a solid business footing and a vision for growth.

    Elias Crim

    Lessons from Sara Horowitz’s New Book on Mutualism

    Drawing on U.S. labor-movement and New-Deal-era history, Sara Horowitz urges a bottom-up approach to public policy to build cooperative-ecosystem density and “patient capitalist” perspective.

    Issue 2|18 May 2021

    Mapping the Ecosystem

    Elias Crim

    Fund Profile: Community Equity Fund of Asheville, NC

    How Stephanie Swepson-Twitty, Eagle Market Streets CEO, and Kevin Jones, Faith+Finance co-founder, began collaborating to address a critical business-funding gap in their Buncombe-County home area of western North Carolina.

    Issue 1|4 May 2021

    Are You Seeing What We’re Seeing?

    Kevin Jones

    Fund Profile: Seed Commons Founder Brendan Martin

    Seed Commons’ founder Brendan Martin’s vision is for a cooperative fund of funds enabling community-based financing — and his vision is working.

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