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Our Innovators

Discover Our Innovators

Our innovators are social entrepreneurs and worker leaders. They are problem-solvers and policy wonks. They are on the ground and imagining solutions to problems as they encounter them. They are visioning today what the future of work will be.  They are committed to social justice, equity, and inclusion. They are the inheritors of 20th century problems and the creators of 21st century solutions.

Our Innovators by Location

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The Movement for a Cooperative Economy in America's Rustbelt

Co-op Dayton was founded by labor, faith, and community coming together to rebuild our blue collar city by supporting business models that empower workers and address gaps in goods and services in our neighborhoods.

Strategy: Worker Ownership or Co-ops
Industry:
Construction, Manufacturing,

United for Respect Education Fund

United for Respect Education Fund elevates the voices of those employed in the retail economy to ensure industry leaders and policymakers provide jobs that lead to a safe and economically secure life. Through our online peer networks and on-the-ground base-building strategies we build the leadership of people working in low-income jobs to share their stories and advocate with allied organizations for real solutions to the pressing needs of the country's massive low-wage workforce.

Strategy: Policy Advocacy
Industry:
Not industry-specific,

Warehouse Workers Resource Center

Preparing working class people in the Inland Empire for the transition to green logistics jobs through training in installation, maintenance and operation of zero emission technologies at high road companies.

Strategy: Job & Skills Training
Industry:

We Connect NYC

People's Choice Communications is a multi-stakeholder cooperative launched by members of IBEW Local #3 who have been on strike against Spectrum since 2017, the longest strike in US history. Their mission is to put themselves back to work and bridge the digital divide by building community-owned broadband Internet networks. The cooperative ownership structure will allows them to cut out the excessive profits taken by large corporate ISPs, and instead return wealth to the people responsible for building and using the network. Profits are reinvested in the community to support community organizing, education, job training, and dividends for users.

Strategy: Worker Ownership or Co-ops
Industry:
Utilities,

Wiggle Room

Wiggle Room is building power in the family childcare industry by aggregating providers and introducing mechanisms for employers to pay into the system, expanding access to affordable childcare while raising worker wages.

Strategy: Technology Product
Industry:
Childcare,

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