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Looking for employment opportunities or internships? Want to work in an established, innovative sector that prioritizes people over profit? JOIN US on November 18th, 2020 @3:30pm for a virtual career fair with cooperative employers and researchers such as Land O’ Lakes, 40 Square, Landmark, Equity and the Wisconsin Farmers Union. MCDC’s own Charity Schmidt will… Leer más »Wisconsin Co-op Career Fair

Not long ago, the UW Center for Cooperatives published the largest study to date on co-ops with Latinx members. It was carried out and authored by Esther West, with the collaboration of Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhardt, the author of Collective Courage (see our earlier post on her book). Here’s an excerpt from the Executive Summary… The… Leer más »Latinx co-ops in the US

Voting is at the core of every worker cooperative. We vote on pretty much everything. It’s not the fastest way to get things done, but it does result in the fairest and wisest decisions. Looking back over the last several years, we see decisions and policies that haven’t been the fairest or the wisest. We… Leer más »Today’s the day! But so is every day.

It’s a well-known conundrum that child care is very expensive, and yet child-care workers make very low wages. Co-ops are good at solving such problems. If you’re in child care, or you might like to be, this is the video for you. It’s a modified version of MCDC’s Co-ops 101 webinar geared specifically to this… Leer más »Our latest video is on how to form a child-care co-op!

The best-known of the cooperative principles is Principle 6, “Cooperation among cooperatives.” So, it only made sense that when MCDC started talking with the South Central Wisconsin Hemp Cooperative about processing, marketing, and distributing hemp products, that we would form another co-op. Fast-forward to today, and the Madison CBD Co-op is about to incorporate. Here… Leer más »The Madison Cannabis Co-op

8:00 PM on Zoom. Register here. How is our local government preparing for our economic future? Can cooperatives play a stronger role in strengthening our local economy? Learn how two U.S. cities with long, rich cooperative histories—Madison, Wisconsin and Oakland, California—created initiatives to dedicate municipal funds to strengthen cooperative development and build economic resiliency. Featuring Rebecca… Leer más »Tomorrow! The Age of Co-opportunity

Join the Chicago-based Co-op Ed Center on October 29 at 6:00 PM (Central Time) for a lively exploration of the benefits, opportunities, and challenges of forming a member-owned and democratically led Professional Services Cooperatives. Featuring Panelists from: ReStorying Consulting Cooperative, niNA Collective, and Derute Consulting Cooperative Moderated by: Joan Fadayiro of Coop 4 Lib SPONSORS:… Leer más »Starting your worker-owned cooperative: from idea to action

Worker Justice Wisconsin is the only workers’ rights center in the state, and has been able to recover over a million and a half dollars in stolen wages over the years. (Did you know that wage theft adds up to nearly as much as all other forms of theft combined?) WJW has a history of… Leer más »Worker Justice Wisconsin

Madison now has a new high school! After two years of talking and planning, Milestone Democratic School opened its doors last month. It is one of only a small handful of schools in the country to be operated democratically by its teachers, staff, parents, and even the students themselves. Within the school, the teachers have… Leer más »Get It Right Cooperative

As the pandemic drags on, more and more is happening online. Perhaps you’ve noticed! We at MCDC are attending and presenting at an ever-growing list of online conferences.  On Wednesday, Charity will be part of a panel on State And Local Ecosystems as part of the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)/CLUSA International Co-op Impact Conference… Leer más »Upcoming webinars