{"id":7872,"date":"2023-12-14T18:07:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T00:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:32:35","slug":"year-end-summary-and-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/2023\/12\/14\/year-end-summary-and-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Year End Summary &#8211; and Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is our year-end roundup for 2023, our sixth year of operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In 2023:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We started the year with a party to celebrate our fifth anniversary.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We provided grants totaling $74,930 to two community based organizations doing worker cooperative support (<a href=\"http:\/\/workerjustice.org\">Worker Justice WI<\/a> y <a href=\"http:\/\/madworc.org\">MadWorC<\/a>).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We provided 3 grants for $10k each to cooperatives in development, to spend on the various costs of starting a business such as legal support, business planning, marketing, and training\/education.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We presented our first Co-op 201 session, which dives deeper into actually starting a worker cooperative than our ever-popular Co-op 101 (which we continued to hold).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We also presented our first Co-op Financing session, with guest presenters from <a href=\"http:\/\/sharedcapital.coop\">Shared Capital Cooperative<\/a> y <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwbic.com\/kiva\/\">KIVA Madison\/WWBIC<\/a>, about the various options that exist for financing a new worker cooperative (an important topic for anyone developing a co-op).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We co-presented with <a href=\"http:\/\/workerjustice.org\">Worker Justice Wisconsin<\/a> y <a href=\"http:\/\/madworc.org\">MadWorC<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ace.coop\/\">Association of Cooperative Educators Institute<\/a> about Madison\u2019s worker cooperative ecosystem.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywcamadison.org\/what-were-doing\/race-gender-equity\/racial-justice-summit\/\">YWCA Racial Justice Summit<\/a> to promote MCDC\u2019s resources.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We celebrated Madison\u2019s newest worker co-op, El Chisme, at their launch party and celebrated them again at Worker Justice Wisconsin&#8217;s Posadas event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re looking forward to continuing to support worker cooperative development in 2024. As always, be in touch with your cooperative ideas and plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wishing everyone a happy new year,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MCDC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Highlights in photo form:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/iron-roots-big-logo-party-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/iron-roots-big-logo-party-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/iron-roots-big-logo-party-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/iron-roots-big-logo-party-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/iron-roots-big-logo-party-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/iron-roots-big-logo-party-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/iron-roots-big-logo-party-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/iron-roots-big-logo-party-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Members of Iron Roots Cooperative serve food at our 5 Year Celebration. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ace-presentation-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ace-presentation-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ace-presentation-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ace-presentation-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ace-presentation-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ace-presentation-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ace-presentation-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ace-presentation-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rek Kwawer from MadWorC, Frida Ballard from Worker Justice Wisconsin, and Charity Schmidt from MCDC present on Madison&#8217;s worker cooperative ecosystem at the 2023 ACE Institute in Puerto Rico. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/workerjustice-staff-and-el-chisme-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/workerjustice-staff-and-el-chisme-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/workerjustice-staff-and-el-chisme-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/workerjustice-staff-and-el-chisme-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/workerjustice-staff-and-el-chisme-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/workerjustice-staff-and-el-chisme-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/workerjustice-staff-and-el-chisme-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/workerjustice-staff-and-el-chisme-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Members of El Chisme Cooperative with Worker Justice Wisconsin staff at the El Chisme launch party. <\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is our year-end roundup for 2023, our sixth year of operation.\u00a0 In 2023: We\u2019re looking forward to continuing to support worker cooperative development in 2024. As always, be in touch with your cooperative ideas and plans. Wishing everyone a happy new year, MCDC Highlights in photo form:<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paWzR5-22Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcdcmadison.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}