West Virginia
New Economy Works West Virginia (N.E.W. WV) works to provide business development support and financing to worker-owned and producer-owned cooperatives in central Appalachia. This is part of building a new economy in the region that is inclusive, democratic, and community controlled.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA) is a cooperative whose members are co-ops in the Philadelphia region. Their mission is to improve the lives of people in the Philadelphia region by supporting democratically organized businesses, promoting the principles of the international cooperative movement, and growing the cooperative economy.
PACA envisions a vibrant and growing network of cooperative enterprises that operate in all sectors of the economy to build a better world—providing essential services, strengthening democratic organizations, creating quality jobs, building community wealth, reducing poverty, strengthening our local economy, protecting the environment, and increasing community engagement.
Boston, Massachusetts
The Boston Ujima Project is organizing neighbors, workers, business owners and investors to create a community-controlled economy in Greater Boston.
The Boston Ujima Project is an ecosystem designed to strengthen local economic control and recenter economic power in low income communities and communities of color in Boston. Ujima (oo-JEE-mah) is a Swahili word, the celebrated Kwanzaa principle for “collective work and responsibility.” Ujima is an inspiration to take responsibility for our communities, to see our neighbor’s problems as our own, and to build collective power to solve them together. Through Ujima, the Boston Ujima Project is fostering a new economy based on democracy, sustainability, and justice.
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The Hudson Valley, New York
Co-op Hudson Valley supports workers and grassroots projects that want to start and grow cooperative businesses while working to strengthen the regional cooperative ecosystem. They do this by pairing non-extractive loans with technical assistance and coaching, which helps projects thrive. Co-op HV works with people who have been excluded from economic security to create opportunities in their own community for collective ownership and dignified work.
$50,000
October 1, 2019
Line of credit
$14,270
May 20, 2018
Loan for a hoop house to expand production
$113,400
January 1, 2017
Financing to convert the farm to worker-ownership
