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Juliette Jack Banjeree

I am immersed in cooperative food system projects. 1) I am guiding the launch of a farm stop food co-op (potentially multi-stakeholder) in rural Colorado. Have been engaging with the steering committee for a full year activities such as applying for funding, engaging the local community, educating the steering committee, and training in the farm stop retail model (much smaller retail site footprint + producer centered) and how it can be blended with a cooperative structure. 2) I am working with a very small, remote community in New Mexico to start a [...]

By |2026-06-04T16:37:49-07:00June 4th, 2026|Comments Off on Juliette Jack Banjeree
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Minnesota Consortium of Community Developers

MCCD works collectively to expand economic prosperity by investing in and stewarding community development resources. The Minnesota Consortium of Community Developers (MCCD) is a statewide network of nonprofit community development organizations working to expand economic opportunity and community ownership across Minnesota. Through small business development, lending, policy advocacy, and leadership development, MCCD helps entrepreneurs, workers, and communities build durable pathways to ownership and local wealth creation. Small Business Development: MCCD provides technical assistance, coaching, and training that help entrepreneurs launch, grow, transition, and sustain businesses in ownership structures that align with their [...]

By |2026-03-11T17:13:45-07:00March 11th, 2026|Comments Off on Minnesota Consortium of Community Developers
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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 |2026-03-11T16:45:20-07:00March 11th, 2026|Comments Off on StreetWell
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Barbara Johnson

I am continuing to support former Alaska Cooperative Development Center (ACDC) clients, primarily on a volunteer basis, while seeking new funding streams to sustain cooperative development in Alaska. My current efforts focus on outreach and education about the value of cooperatives and the importance of maintaining state-level co-op development capacity. I’m also working to build partnerships and strengthen local expertise to ensure long-term support for cooperative formation and growth across Alaska.

By |2026-02-25T16:12:24-08:00February 25th, 2026|Comments Off on Barbara Johnson
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Anwar Simon

Some of Who I am: I'm a Point-of-Sale Manager at the Durham Co-op Market, a Cooperative Development student, and a learner about our remarkable food systems here in North Carolina. I'm inspired regularly by local and global projects reimagining food justice, equity, and community ownership. My Cooperative Journey: Though relatively short, but gratefully, pretty dense, I joined the Durham Co-op Market with a passion for studying models of worker-ownership, both in practice and governance, What I didn't expect was to add on a passion for how grocery retail connects with, and reflects [...]

By |2026-02-25T15:36:10-08:00February 25th, 2026|Comments Off on Anwar Simon
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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 |2026-02-20T16:26:52-08:00August 18th, 2025|Comments Off on Erik Forman
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Joey Valle

Joey Valle I am currently assisting a couple of housing cooperatives form/formalize, developing a neighborhood level composting cooperative with my partner, offering education to multiple groups about cooperatives, and working on forming up a local cooperative network in Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti.

By |2025-06-10T15:10:53-07:00May 12th, 2025|Comments Off on Joey Valle
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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 |2023-07-19T10:20:00-07:00July 17th, 2023|Comments Off on Ed Potter
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