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StreetWell

StreetWell

StreetWell’s mission is to repair the harms of disinvestment by rebuilding housing and local economies through democratic ownership, dignified work, and long-term community stewardship—approaching disinvested places not as blight, but as sources of beauty, capacity, and opportunity. StreetWell develops cooperative economic infrastructure around neighborhood real estate revitalization. Through our Impact Real Estate Portfolio (IREP) model, we acquire and rehabilitate housing while building pathways for worker ownership in construction, tenant ownership in housing, and community investment in local assets. We work directly with construction crews, emerging developers, and community partners to launch or [...]

By Alex Stone|2026-03-11T16:45:20-07:00March 11th, 2026|Comments Off

Davey Madison
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Davey Madison

Davey Madison

Our cooperative is primarily focused on the agricultural and indigenous spaces. We will be providing cooperative education, establishing processes and best practices, and also cooperative development for new projects.

By Alex Stone|2026-02-25T15:56:22-08:00February 25th, 2026|Comments Off

Erik Forman

Erik Forman is a social entrepreneur, labor organizer, and housing finance and policy professional. As an entrepreneur, he pioneered the use of worker-owned high-growth tech-enabled startups as a tool for system change, co-creating The Drivers Cooperative, the first driver-owned rideshare platform cooperative in the United States, as well as People’s Choice Communications, an Internet Service Provider built with striking cable technicians to bridge the digital divide. Before turning toward cooperative development as a strategy for system change, Erik was active as a labor organizer for over a decade. He was a [...]

By Alex Stone|2026-02-20T16:26:52-08:00August 18th, 2025|Comments Off

Kate “Sassy” Sassoon
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Kate “Sassy” Sassoon

Kate “Sassy” Sassoon

Sassy Facilitation offers facilitation, training, and organizational design for innovative organizations.

By Alex Stone|2024-01-18T11:18:18-08:00January 18th, 2024|Comments Off

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Ed Potter

Ed Potter

Ed is an international cooperative development practitioner with over 20 years of experience working in North American, Latin American, and Caribbean countries. He previously served as executive director of the International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation’s Americas Regional Association (ICMIF/Americas), representing 67 cooperative and mutual insurers from Canada to Argentina. He co-founded the Cooperative Law and Regulation Initiative (CLARITY), which promotes cooperative legal and regulatory reform and advocacy with secondary and tertiary cooperatives in developing economies. Ed led a USAID Cooperative Development Program grant supporting ICMIF/Americas members’ capacity to develop and deliver affordable microinsurance financial [...]

By Alex Stone|2023-07-19T10:20:00-07:00July 17th, 2023|Comments Off

Mike Strode
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Mike Strode

Mike Strode

By Alex Stone|2022-01-06T16:45:05-08:00January 6th, 2022|Comments Off

Corrigan Nadon Nichols
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Corrigan Nadon Nichols

Corrigan Nadon Nichols

Corrigan Consulting provides a broad range of technical and training services for cooperatives and democratic, community-based organizations, including business planning, commercial loan consulting, board training, accounting system setup, leadership coaching, and back-office bookkeeping. Corrigan Nadon-Nichols previously served as the Director of Development for NASCO, supporting start-up and expanding housing cooperatives, and the general manager for Qumbya Housing Cooperative in Chicago, IL.

By Alex Stone|2019-03-07T09:04:40-08:00January 24th, 2019|Comments Off

Margaret Bau
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Margaret Bau

Margaret Bau

USDA Cooperative Services focuses on co-op education, development, legal information, research, and farmer co-op statistics. We strive to connect co-ops with resources within USDA Rural Development and across the federal government. CW member Margaret Bau has been engaged in co-op development since 1998 across her home state of Wisconsin and nationally since 2015. Margaret has assisted in the formation of over 35 cooperatives in industries as diverse as homecare worker co-ops in long-term care, the forest products industry, distributing local foods into regional institutions, arts marketing and galleries, ownership conversions, disability services, [...]

By Foust|2023-01-06T11:51:44-08:00September 25th, 2017|Comments Off

Rural Grocery Initiative
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Rural Grocery Initiative

Rural Grocery Initiative

The Rural Grocery Initiative, housed within K-State Research and Extension, aims to sustain locally-owned rural grocery stores to enhance community vitality and improve access to healthy foods by identifying, developing, and sharing resources that support grocers and rural communities. The Rural Grocery Initiative supports rural grocers and communities through technical assistance, research, informational resources, and events. We provide support to communities across the country, however, currently have a foothold in Kansas and the midwest. One are of expertise is in alternative ownership models. In Kansas, in particular, this has included nonprofits, public-private [...]

By Alex Stone|2023-01-04T14:14:56-08:00September 25th, 2017|Comments Off

NASCO
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NASCO

NASCO

NASCO provides education, outreach and project management support to individuals, groups, and developers wanting to create resident-controlled, affordable housing co-operatives – usually student, youth, or campus-oriented. NASCO Development Services also assists new or existing co-ops in obtaining acquisition and gap financing, as well as permanent funding and refinancing packages, usually on a fee-for-service or success fee basis. The Development Services program aims to support proactively those groups who have been underserved – including low-income, minority, differently-abled, working, and re-entry students. We believe that cooperative development and cooperative living transform peoples’ lives [...]

By Foust|2025-04-18T11:07:22-07:00September 25th, 2017|Comments Off

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