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It's time again: We're now accepting apps from co-op startups for the next cohort of the @start_coop accelerator! Are you building a co-op: - to reshape a sector w/ economic justice - to close racial wealth gaps - to unlock radical imaginations Apply: start.coop/accelerator/ap…

Boulder friends, a unique opportunity to have lunch with activist legend George Lakey: calendar.colorado.edu/event/lunch_wi… Join us!

The IRA also includes $9.7 billion for a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that will offer grants and forgivable loans to rural electric co-ops pursuing climate-friendly power projects. Great new piece on the #IRA by @lissaharris in the @timesunion. timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/c…

The Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center is seeking a new executive director: rmeoc.org/get-involved-r… This is a critical leadership role in our regional co-op/EO community.

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of a new OPEN ACCESS article with Júlia Martins Rodrigues: Scaling Co-operatives Through a Multi-Stakeholder Network: A Case Study in the Colorado Solar Energy Industry jeodonline.com/jeod_articles/… A few remarks:

Learn about what could be a sea change in cooperative financing. Introducing the Capital for Cooperatives Act - free webinar on 9/20 colorado.edu/lab/medlab/202…

Introducing the Capital for Cooperatives Act A free webinar on Sept. 20 explaining the potential of @Hickenlooper's historic bill in the US Senate, featuring @ldp7744 @dobrien_coop @ccwbdenver @RMFUnion Register now: colorado.edu/lab/medlab/202…

When you and your friends organize, don't start from scratch. Order your free copies of COMMUNITY RULES a new 44-page pamphlet on basic structures for organizing from MEDLab: colorado.edu/lab/medlab/202… Offer ends Thursday!

Tomorrow, learn how the future of local news is being made in Colorado: colorado.edu/lab/medlab/202… Featuring @co_mediaproject @ColoradoSun @the_ntln

The future of the news business is being made in Colorado. Next week, join us for a webinar to learn how we're doing it: colorado.edu/lab/medlab/202… Hint: Journalists are in charge.

Once again, Colorado is leading the way to the new economy. Wanna come along? [thread] Our own @SenatorHick is introducing the Capital for Cooperatives Act, which will finally enable cooperatives to access SBA loans: cpr.org/2021/05/20/hic…

This Thursday! Mutualist Infrastructure: A Conversation with @Sara_Horowitz We will explore strategies for bringing the mutualist tradition of unions, cooperatives, and more from the margins into the center of economic policy-making. Register now: colorado.edu/lab/medlab/202…

This was a phenomenal panel of real-world startups using community ownership to solve real problems. Don't miss it.

A radical vision for cooperative cooperation disguised as a draft of a dry case study on @NamasteSolar @AmicusSolar etc. "Scaling Co-operatives Through a Multi-stakeholder Network: A Case Study in the Colorado Solar Energy Industry" ntnsndr.in/NamasteNetwork Feedback please!

Upcoming event: a presentation, conversation, and Q&A about launching a worker-owned workforce cooperative designed to support local producers and processors across Colorado—from @RMFU us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Cooperators: You might want to know that there is an office of @ElevationsCU credit union very near where yesterday's attack in Boulder occurred. Let's please show the employees there the co-op movement's support. @NCBACLUSA @icacoop @CUNA

Register now for our 2/26 FREE & OPEN webinar on whether this crazy crypto stuff can be of any use for deep community ownership. "#ExitToCommunity: Emerging Crypto" colorado.edu/lab/medlab/202… Featuring @BLR13 @fairmint @tryrollhq @jwpcPBC

"The Colorado Cooperative Company was a socialist-based ditch company organized in Denver with the intent of establishing a colony for its members." montrosepress.com/news/colorado-…

The current crisis needs cooperatives. What policy strategies do they need to be ready for it? Really looking forward to discussing this next week with @WorkerCoop @HazelTCorcoran: eventbrite.ca/e/webinar-nath… Please join us!

Wow, this is haunting: A photo of a cooperative store in a Colorado "relocation center" during World War II: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gran…