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Speakers Announced for the 2025 New York Cooperative Summit We’re less than two months away from the 2025 New York Cooperative Summit — happening Saturday, October 4th at the Empire Plaza Convention Center in Albany, NY. This year’s program is packed with leaders and visionaries from across the cooperative movement, covering everything from finance and
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We invited updates from participants in last year’s Summit to share the latest news. McKenzie Jones of The Worker Place offers this update: What are some cooperatives you work with that New Yorkers should know more about? Gimme! Coffee Cooperative of course – a beloved coffee shop with multiple sites around Ithaca, Gimme converted to
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GrownBy was founded in 2019 because farmers needed fair technology: technology that was affordable and technology that would bring real innovation to get more local food to more people. Since then, we’ve platformed more than 1,000 farms in 48 states (and now Canada!) who sell through our app, GrownBy. A central part of our mission is
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In 2015 Frank Cetera, then at the Onondaga SBDC, wrote Bringing the Cooperation Upstate, a plan for regional cooperative development in upstate New York published by Grassroots Economic Organizing: …the challenge of organizing across great distances are relevant (upstate NY is 42,067 square miles out of 47,100 square miles that make up the full state
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It’s a coffee shop during the day, with coffee sourced directly from sustainable farms around the world and processed at a micro-roastery just a 20-minute walk away. In the evenings, it serves up cocktails and mocktails crafted using locally- or regionally-grown ginger, turmeric, tarragon, borage, corn, carrots, pea tendrils and apples. It’s also a worker-owned cooperative.
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Buffalo Rising interviewed the worker-owners of Extra Extra: Extra Extra is the first and only tipless pizza and wine bar in WNY, and they’re also a worker-owned cooperative. In Fall 2020, founders Bridget and Joey participated in Cooperation Buffalo’s Cooperative Academy where they learned the basics of starting and running a cooperative business. Every year
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We invited some updates from participants in last year’s Summit to share the latest news. Cecilia Johnson of Cooperation Buffalo offers this update: What are some cooperatives you work with that New Yorkers should know more about? Rose Jade Consulting is a worker owned cooperative that specializes in Facilitation and Planning, Training and Political Education,
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Found & Fixed invites consumers to reuse, repair and reimagine furniture and more.
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Applications are open for Start.coop’s Spring Cooperative Business Incubator. A free 8-week virtual Incubator for rural cooperative founders, especially those led by women, African Americans, Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, Hispanics, Asians, and Pacific Islanders. The program includes weekly workshops, 1:1 coaching, and a $1,000 stipend to help entrepreneurs design their business and ownership models.
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The North Central Small Business Development Center is hosting the Cooperative Fund of the Northeast to speak about employee ownership. Many small business owners are seeing an inside sale to an employee cooperative as the best option for their succession and exit planning. Employees often understand the business better than an outside buyer, can carry
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