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Job Posting: Equal Exchange banana team — logistics and sales

OKE USA FRUIT COMPANY – Banana Logistics and Sales Full time regular position (~45-50 hours / week) Salary: Dependent on experience Benefits: 100% individual health insurance premium coverage and significant portion of dependent coverage, vacation, holidays and sick days Location: Equal Exchange Headquarters, West Bridgewater, MA In 2006, three entrepreneurial organizations came together to create

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Congratulations Real Pickles on transitioning to a Cooperative!

Real Pickles is now a Cooperative! Friends of Real Pickles: As of today, we are now a worker-owned cooperative!  Hurray!! Thanks to huge support from our community, a successful community investment campaign, and many months of hard work from our founding co-op team here at Real Pickles, this morning we signed the documents that made

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Matching Grant Challenge for Dorchester Food Co-op

The Dorchester Community Food Co-op is approaching the deadline for our matching fund Challenge Grant from the Boston Impact Initiative.Thanks to many of you, we have raised $2800 toward our goal of $12,500. Now we need to raise the rest— $9,700 by April 15! If we meet this challenge, we will receive an additional $12,500 from the

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RFP: Web & Communications Systems Design

Request for Proposal: Web & Communications Systems DesignCooperative Development Institute Overview:The Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) is the Northeast’s Center for Cooperative Business Development. A 501(c)3 founded in 1994, CDI’s mission is to build a cooperative economy in New England and New York through direct business assistance, education, and networking. We are looking for a consultant

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NYC Bookkeeping Co-op startup looking for new members

A Bookkeeping Cooperative (ABC) is looking for two experienced bookkeepers or accountants based in NYC to bring our start-up cooperative to a higher level. We are a worker-owned cooperative that offers day-to-day bookkeeping services to cooperatives, non-profits, social justice endeavors, alternative healthcare practitioners and small community-based businesses. We offer:– Full charge bookkeeping services – Quickbooks

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March 15: Co-op info session in Worcester, MA

CO-OP ACADEMYINFO SESSIONFRIDAY, MARCH 15th3:00PMat the WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY, Saxe Room3 Salem St Worcester,MA 01608Delicious food will be served!Free and open to the public. Childcare and interpreting available upon request (RSVP with request by March 7th at www.WorcesterRoots.org) – Key topics include: What are the different kinds of co-ops? What are the principles of co-ops?

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Job: ICA Group seeks Exec Dir

The ICA Group (ICA) seeks an Executive Director to lead its growth. Founded in 1978, ICA is a nationally-recognized nonprofit with a history of leadership in worker ownership and social enterprise. ICA acts a source of information and expertise for alternative business structures and for other businesses that empower workers and produce or retain secure,

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Brunswick park becomes co-op: press

This article ran this week in the Coastal Journal, distributed from Freeport to Camden and inserted in the Portland Press Herald. http://www.coastaljournal.com/website/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3935:brunswick-mobile-home-park-purchased-by-residents&catid=58:regional-news&Itemid=100070 Nice work, NEROC!

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Worker Co-op 101 in NYC 1/17

Date: Thursday, January 17th Time: 6 – 8 pm Place: NEDAP, 176 Grand Street, Suite 300, New York, NY 10013 Trains: N/R/Q/6/J/Z to Canal Street; B/D to Grand Street Please email info@nycworker.coop with any questions.

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Fundraising for the new cohort of Green Worker Cooperatives

The Next Wave of Co-ops are here!  The Spring semester of the Coop Academy, our business boot camp for cooperative start-ups, is less than a month away. But before any of the four teams of aspiring cooperative entrepreneurs are able to benefit from the aggressive combination of training, coaching, and technical services such as legal

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