CareShare
Co-op Cincy will expand their CareShare worker- and parent-owned childcare cooperative that provides care for up to five children in a family home. CareShare will facilitate the 'nanny share' matching process, handle payroll and taxes, ensure teachers are paid at least $15 per hour with benefits, and conduct a 12-week course on co-op development and building support mechanisms. Co-op Cincy will expand this program to Jackson, Mississippi; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Santa Ana, California in partnership with existing cooperatives in those communities that are empowering underserved communities.
Strategy: Worker Ownership or Co-ops
Industry: Childcare,
CareTogether
CareTogether of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) which provides emotional and professional support, advice, and resources on Covid-19 to 40,000 caregivers through their free CareTogether support line via text or chat. They will also be connected to the NDWA network that can provide advocacy and empowerment to workers facing exploitation or abuse. The CareTogether line will be staffed by hundreds of volunteers who will receive training on the mentoring model.
Strategy: Technology Product
Industry: Homecare,
Centro Community Partners
Minority-owned small businesses and minority workers have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, making them the most vulnerable to the financial impacts of this pandemic. As they try to come back, the limited access to technical assistance services and credit is a further compounding factor hurting their small businesses and hindering economic mobility. Using its Centro App as a solution, Centro Community Partners is creating a virtual entrepreneurial ecosystem, connecting entrepreneurs with local business resources, and using its technology to strengthen the small business service capacities within other non-profits. Centro's goal is to empower minority entrepreneurs in underserved communities to be stronger, healthier, and more financially resilient.
Strategy: Job & Skills Training
Industry: Professional and Business Services,
ChiFresh Kitchen
ChiFresh Kitchen (a fiscally sponsored project of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council) is a Black-owned commercial food service contractor. Structured as a worker cooperative, ChiFresh demonstrates a business development model centered around food justice and sovereignty, where marginalized workers are the primary decision-makers. The five formerly incarcerated co-owners of ChiFresh Kitchen served their first meals as a new business in May of 2020. During the pandemic, ChiFresh has prepared 50,000 fresh, hot, healthy meals for food-insecure residents of Chicago.
Strategy: Worker Ownership or Co-ops
Industry: Food Service,
Co-op Ride
The Drivers Cooperative is launching a new rideshare platform, owned by the drivers. For better pay in the short term, and just, green transition of the industry in the long term. They strive to build a fair and equitable for-hire vehicle industry and believe that by building a worker-owned ride-hailing company, drivers will be able to earn more, save on costs, and build power.
Strategy: Technology Product
Industry:
Community Labor Environmental Action Network (CLEAN) Carwash Campaign
CLEAN empowers car wash workers as they learn the process of gaining income mobility. This grant will support worker leaders on their ownership path and it will allow CLEAN Carwash Campaign to grow skills in the incubation process.
Strategy: Job & Skills Training
Industry:
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