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    Júlia Martins Rodrigues, Elias Crim, Aaron Tanaka

    Taking Movements to the Next Level

    Aaron Tanaka joins us to share observations from a number of years of leadership in one of the U.S.’s more dynamic environments for solidarity-economy organizing — and comes to a root question of social change work, as cast by Boston Ujima Project’s Nia Evans: “How do we make the air that we’re breathing?”

    Issue 10|7 September 2021

    Mission Driven Finance; Co⁠-⁠op Stories on Film; Argentina’s Cooperatives

    Daniel Wortel-London

    Two Great Documentary Films about Cooperatives

    Historian Daniel Wortel-London reviews two excellent documentaries about co-ops, one a closeup look at the impact of Mondragon in the local culture and the other a keen examination of the meaning of economic democracy.

    Elias Crim, David Lynn, Lauren Grattan

    Fund Profile: Mission Driven Finance

    This community investment fund is unafraid of financial innovation and is emerging as a new platform for reinventing effective impact investing.

    Celeste Serra

    Cooperatives in Argentina’s Time of Need

    Argentine correspondent Celeste Serra provides some history of cooperativism in her country following 2001’s financial crisis and a sketch of hopes for growth under the current cooperative-friendly national administration.

    Issue 9|24 August 2021

    Purposeful Investing in Practice; Economy Shift & NPQ; Now More than Ever, CLTs

    Felipe Witchger

    My Investing Journey (Part Two)

    Turning from the condition he calls capital supremacy to the practice of ethical action in the role of individual investor, OM publisher Felipe Witchger outlines his own approach and offers suggestions for getting under way.

    Elias Crim, Steve Dubb

    A Conversation with Steve Dubb of Nonprofit Quarterly (Part One)

    Steve Dubb is unusually attuned to the shift the U.S. is undergoing on questions of economy. He talks with us about neoliberalism’s waning credibility and what Nonprofit Quarterly, his employer, represents as an institution of and amid a time of change.

    Elias Crim

    At the Intersection of Property, Power, and Place: Community Land Trusts

    Community land trusts in the U.S. are a legacy of the 1960s and Civil Rights, representing ideals of stewardship, co-responsibility and democracy still older and more universal. In this century the structure’s importance deepens and expands here and worldwide. On Common Ground tells the story.

    Issue 8|10 August 2021

    Detroit’s Coop Fund; Equal Exchange’s Wild Ride; Felipe Witchger on Investing

    Felipe Witchger

    My Investing Journey (Part One)

    Ownership Matters publisher Felipe Witchger sketches out in two parts the way his thinking about investing well — the urgency and the possibilities — became re-oriented. In this installment: the purposeful investor’s dilemma.

    Elias Crim, Margo Dalal

    Fund Profile: Detroit Community Wealth Fund

    Detroit may not have a sizable cooperative business community, but it is fertile ground. DCWF’s executive director tells of partnering with local neighborhood development orgs and Seed Commons to grow this fund and incubator.

    Elias Crim, Rob Everts

    A Conversation about the Impact of Equal Exchange with Rob Everts

    The Equal Exchange story begins, formally, on May Day in 1986, with a more-than-symbolic challenge to Reagan-era U.S. trade posture. Long-time former CEO Rob Everts talks with us about the cooperative’s journey, values and impact.

    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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