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Mayor: Worker co-ops can curb poverty

2/23/2016

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From the Democrat and Chronicle: "Mayor Lovely Warren wants to push forward with a plan to launch a network of businesses owned and operated by their workers — an idea meant to help build wealth and create jobs in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods. Warren said [...] that creating these for-profit, cooperatively-owned businesses will complement other anti-poverty work planned on the east side of the city this year..."

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Rochester’s Market Driven Community Cooperatives Corporation: A Feasibility Analysis & Implementation Plan

2/5/2016

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The City of Rochester's Office of Innovation, under the leadership of Mayor Lovely Warren, has been coordinating a project to develop worker-owned cooperative businesses as part of a comprehensive wealth building strategy for Rochester, New York.
In 2015 the City engaged The Democracy Collaborative, a group with extensive expertise from similar work in Cleveland Ohio in connection with the Evergreen Cooperatives and the Greater University Circle Initiative. The Democracy Collaborative completed a study in February 2016 that documented incredible potential for the project, a high degree of community support including local Anchor Institution buy-in, as well as several potential business niches for future worker-owned businesses. The report also includes an implementation plan to move the project forward.

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