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a worker co-op for Black women, offering safer and better-paying work than domestic service. She later won a grant purchasing agricultural land in Maryland and transforming it into a multi-stakeholder cooperative called Cooperative Industries #WomensHistoryMonth #LeadingTheChange

Born in 1879, Nannie Helen Burroughs rose to become a nationally recognized educator, orator, and civil rights leader. At the height of the Great Depression, inspired by the Rochdale Co-operative Society, she co-founded the Northeast Self Help Cooperative

She explains how ROSCA’s work and ways her affiliate organizations are helping women-led entrepreneurs. bit.ly/3Sw0GNn

Have you ever been part of a ROSCA (Rotating Savings and Credit Association)? They go by different names in different countries; chama, susu, pardna etc. For our #ThrowBackThursday, we take a look at an interview of Andria Barrett, founding member of The Banker Ladies Council.

Meet Rita L. Haynes a champion of the credit union cooperative movement who believed that banking should serve everyone, especially those the system forgot. She started as an unpaid volunteer in a church basement and ended up changing the financial future of an entire community.

How do you make cooperative principles unforgettable? Our guest this week, Adrionna Fike is a cooperative developer with Cooperation Richmond who advances cooperativism through popular education using playful storytelling, poetry, and thoughtful reflection bit.ly/4bfMK5n

30+ co-ops. 400+ affordable housing units. In the early 90’s she travelled to South Africa and helped establish the first post-apartheid housing cooperatives in Johannesburg. In 2023, she was inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame. #WomensHistoryMonth #HousingCoop #CoopLife

Today we’re honoring Linda Leaks, the Godmother of DC Housing Cooperatives. An educator & organizer who turned renters into owners & tenants into neighbors. She spent 35yrs proving that the cooperative business model is one of the most powerful tools for economic justice we have.

traces how Black communities organized credit unions, farming co-ops, buying clubs, and mutual aid networks, often during times when traditional systems excluded them. Have you read Collective Courage?

Through years of research, she documented something many communities already knew firsthand: cooperatives have long been tools for economic resilience and shared prosperity. Her book Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

This #WomensHistoryMonth, we’re celebrating the scholars and leaders helping us understand the legacy and future of cooperation. One of those voices that have helped us understand the power of cooperation is Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard.

This Thursday at 10:30am ET join Abiodun Henderson, Executive Director of the Come-Up Project and Vernon as they explore how her leadership of the The Come-Up Project and its Gangstas to Growers initiative demonstrates that sustainability extends beyond environmental stewardship

For those of us in the co-op world there's often a defining moment; a conversation, curiosity that led us here. We love knowing how people find their way into the co-op world. And today we're curious and want to hear from our community. How did you first discover co-op ownership?

As a food co-op member, you have a say in what ends up on the shelves. This National Nutrition Month, we're celebrating the connection between democratic ownership and healthier choices. What is your co-op doing this month to celebrate healthy communities? #GoCoop #CoopLife

In 1846, Eliza Brierley pulled out £1, paid her membership, and became the first woman to join the Rochdale Pioneers — the movement that would redefine collective ownership. This #IWD2026 weekend, let's take a moment to acknowledge women around us who show up for our communities.

To the women building co-ops every day, what does Women's History Month mean from where you stand? #WomensHistoryMonth

To launch our #WomensHistoryMonth series, we’ll be hosting Nia K. Evans, Executive Director of Boston Ujima Project. Join Nia this Thursday from 10:30am ET to learn more about how she’s helping to design systems that center those most impacted by economic exclusion.

She showed women how their spending choices were a form of power because she knew that for a community to be strong, it had to be economically independent. She didn’t just talk about change; she organized it—founding buying clubs, credit unions, and co-op study groups.

Today, let's honor the legacy of Halena Wilson, a true pioneer of the cooperative movement. As president of the Ladies’ Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, she didn't host tea parties. She ran economic education sessions. She taught budgeting.