Cooperatives Empowerment Project - Long Beach

08/07/2017

Take note LBC!!!

The City Council directed staff to study actions to assist cooperatives – such as reducing business license fees and allowing them to apply for small business grants – and bring back recommendations to the council within 90 days.

07/17/2017

An awesome job-creating job!

COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, Full Time Position For the Center for Family Life’s Cooperative Development Program (CDP) The Center for Family Life in Sunset Park promotes and supports the foun…

03/09/2017

Carwash workers just launched their worker-run coop in LA!

Después de que la dueña cerrara la empresa de un día para otro, 13 trabajadores se organizaron y volvieron a registrar el servicio como una cooperativa

02/14/2017

SEE YOU THERE!!!

The California Co-op Conference celebrates cooperatives each year by sharing successes and providing you with the most effective ways you can help strengthen and expand the cooperative movement! You won't want to miss the inspirational keynote by Dr. Carol Zippert on Friday! This year's conference w...

01/21/2017

What better day than today to donate to democratic workplaces for youth?

Please join us in giving what we can.

Youth from across the country are convening for a Cooperative Youth Conference. There are youth from Mississippi who are starting a land-trust to keep housing affordable, youth from rural Minnesota who run a sustainable farm together.

There's also a crew from Cleveland - 18-21 year olds who work at a teen center in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood. They're thinking about turning their teen center into a worker-owned co-op (where they, the young workers vote to decide the programming and negotiate their own wages). So they're coming to learn models of how this can be done from other people their ages.

The time is now!

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The USA Cooperative Youth Council is a national organization for and by youth and their allies. We provide opportunities for youth to learn and explore participatory democracy, we support the development of leaders, and convene young people to build trust, relationships, and our movement. Founded in...

12/18/2016

We are fundraising to bring some awesome legal support down to Los Angeles in January. Please donate whatever amount you can!

The Los Angeles region's cooperative businesses and advocates have come together to propel the workers' movement to new heights. After having our first gathering with dozens of workers and advocates from across the southland, our next step is to organize a cooperative law resources exchange meeting…

12/11/2016

Youth members of RCEP also have strong ties to the USA Cooperative Youth Council! If you are youth (17-30), check out USA Cooperative Youth Council! If you are not youth but want to support the cooperative youth movement check out USAC*C and see how you can invest in the cooperative future.

11/29/2016

Hey LoOk eVerYone! It's Amy reppin' Long Beach!!!

Happy Fall Harvest from our C*C family to yours! There’s only a couple weeks left in our which means we want you to sign up! No better time to tell your family about what C*C does and how excited you are about becoming a member… who knows maybe you can convince them to become members too (https://goo.gl/WIKPmD)!

10/21/2016

Cooperative work isn't always easy. Two leaders from a campesino cooperative group in Honduras were assassinated this week. Their group is under pressure to sell off their land so private corporations can build massive palm oil plantations. Here is the family's response. More info: http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/20/headlines/honduras_two_campesino_leaders_assassinated

El dirigente campesino José Ángel Flores sobrevivió un atentado en 2015 y había recibido amenazas. Él y otro compañero fueron asesinados este martes; ambos tenían medidas cauterales desde mayo de 2014 otorgadas por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos.

10/18/2016

A robust cooperative requires a lot of heart and also mad business skills. Join us Wednesday for a course on business planning by the Small Business Development Center.

10/14/2016

In Long Beach right now, leaders discussing the future of Latino urban development here. Audience members asked about cooperatives for immigrants. Yes!!

10/07/2016

Coopify wants to bring a sense of community to the app-based booking world by connecting worker-owned cooperatives and other low-income task workers directly with consumers.