Northwest Cooperative Development Center

Northwest Cooperative Development Center Launches Legacy Project

Posted on March 4, 2019March 11, 2019

From Fifty by Fifty: Thurston County, where the Northwest Cooperative Development Center is located, has nearly 2,000 businesses owned by baby boomers age 60 and over. These businesses employ nearly 15,000 people in a county of just over 250,000 residents. These kinds of numbers spurred the NWCDC and The Washington Grange to apply for funds […]

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USDA provides grants to nonprofit to teach communities about co-ops

Posted on August 28, 2018March 11, 2019

From The World: By the year 2024, everyone from the Baby Boomer generation will be over 60-years-old. NWCDC hopes to talk with business owners who will be looking to retire soon and inform them how they can transition their business into a co-op. “Rather than have these business disappear and the jobs disappear with them, […]