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Herramientas para el desarrollo cooperativo

Las herramientas para cooperativas incluyen cursos en línea, árboles de decisión y kits de información multimedia que ayudan a establecer cooperativas de todo tipo, convertir empresas en propiedad de los empleados, elaborar planes de negocios y financiar cooperativas. Si su kit de herramientas no está representado aquí, comuníquese con nosotros a CoopInfo@usda.gov .

The North Star Curriculum

Part of fellowship programs for building community wealth through cooperative ownership in the African American communities of the Twin Cities metro area.

Rural Grocery Toolkit

Resources for existing grocers and those establishing a new rural grocery store.

Solving the Child Care Crisis With Cooperatives Featuring Kim Coontz

Kim Coontz, director of the California Center for Cooperative Development, discusses the types of childcare cooperatives including employer-sponsored, worker cooperatives, parent cooperatives, and multi-stakeholder cooperatives. She describes how the cooperative business model can be used as an effective model to address the childcare crisis and describes how childcare cooperatives are organized. 

State Strategies for Increasing Wages for Cooperative Health Care Workers

This National Governors Association Center for Best Practices toolkit includes strategies states can use to increase wages and facilitate ease of work for health care workers including workers providing care through a cooperative. State Medicaid revisions can increase home health care worker wages by assuring government funds actually go to caregivers. For example, reporting requirements, enforcement vehicles, and other mechanisms can assure that funds go to intended recipients. The toolkit also addresses how nonwage strategies with clear monetary value can help care workers including provision of transportation and childcare.  

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

Extensive resources for community controlled affordable housing and low income cooperative homeowners.

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