Cleveland co-op program fosters worker-owned business growth – The Land

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Cleveland co-op program fosters worker-owned business growth – The Land

A crowd celebrates the Dolphin Tank teams. [Credit to LOH] What happens when a business is wholly owned and controlled by its members, where profits are distributed to employees rather than investors? The International Co-operative Alliance defines this cooperative, or co-op model, as “an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs…through a jointly-owned and democratically contr…