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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

The role of African-Americans in the co-op movement is often overlooked, but people like Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard are trying to change that. She is best known for her book, “Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.” Madison Worker Cooperatives, better known as MadWorC, will be reading it as the inaugural… Leer más »The African-American co-op movement

The Mutual Aid Workspace (“the MAW”) is the large space you find yourself in when you walk into the iconic Social Justice Center on Willy Street. But it’s much more than just a space. It’s a project of the Madison Mutual Aid Network, (website and Facebook), and is intended to allow its member organizations (which… Leer más »The Mutual Aid Workspace!

We haven’t been able to do our Co-ops 101 presentation in many months, for reasons you’re all familiar with. So, Charity recorded it, and posted the video on YouTube. Then we figured, as long as we’re posting videos about worker co-ops, we might as well post a bunch of them, and call it our video… Leer más »Presenting MCDC’s video library!

Like so many people, we’re working from home these days. It’s been an adjustment, but it’s given us the opportunity to overhaul our website! We hope you’ll come take a look, and also let us know how you like it. http://mcdcmadison.org One feature to make special note of is that the Co-ops 101 workshop that… Leer más »Working from home