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	The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth

      
                    The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth

                                                  

      
	
	    
    

      
  

  
      
  
  
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 Something important is happening in Cleveland. The Democracy Collaborative, in partnership with the Cleveland Foundation, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, the   City of Cleveland  , and the city's major hospitals and universities—is helping to implement a new model of large-scale worker-owned and community-benefiting businesses. The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities most dramatically impacted by the nation's decaying economy.
   
Increasingly, this model is being referred to nationally as The Cleveland Model. Other cities nationwide have begun the process of replicating and adapting this innovative approach to economic development, green job creation, and neighborhood stabilization.

	 	 
	 	 













  


  
  



 
  

	

	
	  
	  

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Video: Evergreen Cooperatives program to help worker-owners purchase homes in their community highlighted by PBS & CNBC's Nightly Business Report
Publication: Impact to Last: Lessons from the Front Lines of Social Enterprise
Publication: Owning Your Own Job is a Beautiful Thing: Community Wealth Building in Cleveland, Ohio
Video: Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work

	  

	  

	


      



    


  





  
     

    
    

      
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