#BuildCoops with Us!
#BuildCoops with Us! Communities across the country are emerging from a long, harsh winter into a spring boasting a vaccine roll-out that’s bringing the possibilities of post-pandemic life tantalizingly close. But for over a year now, there have been calls to not go back to normal. The pandemic has pushed us to ask questions about […]
Burial Grounds and NWCDC talk Co-ops with Parallel Univeristy
We were happy to join Burial Grounds on this show produced by KAOS-FM. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FpG7HTmPTPMR1HZI0UreAF1ued1iJPv6/view?fbclid=IwAR2meATXg2umfNhrCxXDio-e25pSQcJ3S80oSqHVsK7bUDEeOhOWa19_fGo
Orca Books Seeks Members, Donations
Orca Books launched its push for new members and donations in its efforts to transition to a community-owned multistakeholder cooperative. In an email to volunteers, the steering committee stated, “our goal is now to raise $200,000 by the end of the year (we have raised about $30,000 as of the end of August). The remaining […]
Renata Rollins on Co-ops
Olympia City Councilmember joined us at Coopatopia last spring to discuss the value of #co-ops and the #cooperative model to our communities. We thank her for her time and strong support for our work. Local communities across the country are working to build resiliency into their local economies and co-ops are a big part of […]
Columbia Homeowners Cooperative Makes Regional News
Margaret Vockrodt of the Columbia Homeowners’ Cooperative and ROC NW’s Miles Nowlin recently made news about one of Washington’s newest resident-owned community. The Longview, WA cooperative was featured in the Columbian newspaper and then Oregon Public Radio picked up the story. This was the first project of ROC NW that utilized funding from the Washington […]
Welcome Capital Homecare Cooperative!
On March 2, 2018, the workers of Capital Homecare Cooperative became the third homecare cooperative to open its doors in the State of Washington, joining its sisters Peninsula Homecare Cooperative (Pt. Townsend, WA) and Circle of Life Homecare Cooperative (Bellingham, WA). CHC also became the 5th operational worker co-op in Olympia, WA. Olympia has one […]
