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Co-op Dayton: Developing Cooperative Businesses That Meet Community Needs

by Jeshua John, on May 23, 2024 at 3:17 PM
For nearly ten years, Co-op Dayton has been training and seeding worker-led cooperatives, including a community-owned grocery cooperative, Gem City Market, which opened in a food desert.
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"Just Make It Better." What Gig Workers Have to Say About Gig Work

by Shelly Steward, on March 11, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Innovator Update: Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation

by Jeshua John, on January 16, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Thunder Valley is a leader in workforce development for youth and implements their programs in ways that are attuned to Lakotan lifeways, re-matriating the land, and building a regenerative community.
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Innovator Update: Los Deliveristas Unidos

by Jeshua John, on December 19, 2023 at 6:42 AM
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Innovator Profile: Rural Ideas Network

by Jeshua John, on December 14, 2023 at 7:29 AM
The Rural Ideas Network is an Iowa-based nonprofit that focuses on ensuring the same entrepreneurial resources and support that exist in larger cities are available and accessible to rural...
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Innovator Profile: Milk With Dignity

by Jeshua John, on November 27, 2023 at 7:53 AM
Milk with Dignity ensures compliance by dairy farms with a worker-developed code of conduct that sets standards for wages, scheduling, health and safety, housing, as well as protections around the...
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Innovator Profile: ¡Reclamo!

by Jeshua John, on October 23, 2023 at 7:41 AM
This essential innovation is putting power into the hands of workers to fight wage theft, which is estimated to cost workers in the U.S. $50 billion annually.
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Innovator Profile: FreeWorld

by Jeshua John, on September 21, 2023 at 12:29 PM
FreeWorld is a nonprofit that trains and places returning citizens into living-wage careers in the trucking industry. We’re proud to feature this partner and its leader, Jason Wang, who founded...
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Innovator Profile: Canary

by Jeshua John, on July 17, 2023 at 10:51 AM
Initially incubated by The Workers Lab, this innovative organization is working with employers across the country to ensure workers have access to emergency cash when they experience a crisis that...
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Innovator Profile: Black & Pink

by Jeshua John, on June 30, 2023 at 8:30 AM
We are closing out Pride Month by sharing a profile of the Sex Worker Liberation Project, a program of Black & Pink, that supports the needs of Black and Brown LGTQIA2S+ sex workers nationwide.
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