What we do
We support groups of workers and neighbors as they seek to turn what they have into what they need to demand their share of the region’s prosperity. We help groups fire the boss, kick out the landlord, and elect themselves.
We start worker- and community-owned co-ops, such as the Cleveland Solar Cooperative, PowerUp Purchasing Cooperative, and the graduates of Co-op U, our 14-week incubator. We are working with residents who want to purchase the building they live in and convert it to co-op housing. We also organize with residents who are demanding control over public resources, as in People's Budget Cleveland, which in 2025 launched a pilot to bring PB, or participatory budgeting, aka community budgeting, to Cleveland.
The common thread of our work is economic democracy--the shared stewardship of economic institutions that impact our lives. We bring 'nothing about us without us' to life as we build economic democracy in the city we love.
We start worker- and community-owned co-ops, such as the Cleveland Solar Cooperative, PowerUp Purchasing Cooperative, and the graduates of Co-op U, our 14-week incubator. We are working with residents who want to purchase the building they live in and convert it to co-op housing. We also organize with residents who are demanding control over public resources, as in People's Budget Cleveland, which in 2025 launched a pilot to bring PB, or participatory budgeting, aka community budgeting, to Cleveland.
The common thread of our work is economic democracy--the shared stewardship of economic institutions that impact our lives. We bring 'nothing about us without us' to life as we build economic democracy in the city we love.
