Cleveland Owns is a economic democracy incubator that builds cooperative businesses and leads campaigns for community control of resources.
We know that in racial capitalism, ownership matters, so we’re organizing multiracial, grassroots cooperatives that enable member owners to build wealth and power. We’re working towards a Cleveland owned by its residents.
We build power with frontline communities throughout Miami-Dade County to collectively advance justice and achieve shared prosperity:
We are a worker, self-directed non-profit co-op development center rooted in community organizing. We provide organizing support in English and Spanish for startup co-ops and co-op conversions, as well as ongoing training and technical assistance for existing cooperatives. We believe in a worker-led approach to cooperatives and community economic development.
We support workers to create and maintain collectively owned businesses so that workers can control their work, pay themselves living wages, build a democratic practice of stewarding resources together and engage in the wider Washington, DC area movement ecosystem that is building abolition and decolonization.
“Parable of the Sower Intentional Community worker-owned cooperative is for black women with children. This is a pilot that will support the next intentional communities that we will build for black women, women of color, and eventually others.”
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