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This piece comes from Sherman Kreiner at the University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation. Kreiner is a longtime community economic development practitioner using worker ownership. His work at PACE in Philadelphia, including the O&O Supermarkets, Childspace and Home Care Associates, may be most familiar to our readers. His piece here explains the University of Winnipeg's development model based on four pillars of sustainability, and he makes the case that the anchor institution in an anchor strategy must provide significant leadership for the initiative to be most effective. In the process, he draws on his long experience to give an overview… more

Southerners working on an equitable, just, new economy gathered in Epes, Alabama October 4-6, at the site of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives Research and Training Center to share knowledge, skills and inspiration. (Pictured above is one group's "honeycomb" vision of a Southern cooperative economy.) CoopEcon 2013 is a conference geared toward helping current and future cooperators who are doing the work of building and strengthening new community-based enterprises in their communities. Hosted by the Southern Grassroots Economies Project (SGEP), this was the 2nd annual CoopEcon conference. The Democracy at Work Institute is part of the SGEP, and we are… more