Industry: Food and Beverage Location: Olympia, Washington Number of employees: 6 Became employee owned: 2019 Assistance from: Northwest Cooperative Development Center Learn more burialgroundscoffee.com Barista Magazine – Burial Grounds’ Journey to Collectivizing (2020) Parallel University – Conversation with Colin Bartlett (Audio) (2019) The Workers Paradise – Burial Grounds: Rising Up (2019) Go Fund Me – Burial Grounds […]
Industry: Environmental Services Location: Port Townsend, Washington Number of employees: 9 Became employee owned: 2019 Assistance from: Northwest Cooperative Development Center Learn more marinesurveysandassessments.com Marine Surveys – Statement of Qualifications (2019) Employee Owned Small Businesses in Washington Employee Owned Small Businesses in Assisted by the Northwest Cooperative Development Center
Industry: Food and Beverage Location: Olympia, Washington Number of employees: 6 Became employee owned: 2019 Assistance from: Northwest Cooperative Development Center Learn more voyeurolympia.com The Worker’s Paradise – Le Voyeur The Next Generation (2019) Works in Progress – Olympia’s co-op businesses create economic justice and opportunity (2019) Le Voyeur – Cooperative Grand Re-opening (2019) […]
Industry: Tech Location: Olympia, Washington Number of employees: 15 Became employee owned: 2019 Assistance from: Northwest Cooperative Development Center Financing: Shared Capital Cooperative Learn more www. workingsystems.com WIP – A business that serves workers will become a business owned by workers (2019) Employee Owned Small Businesses in Washington Employee Owned Small Businesses in Tech Employee Owned […]
Industry: Books Location: Olympia, Washington Number of employees: 7 Became employee owned: in process Assistance from: Northwest Cooperative Development Center Learn more Orca Books – Orca Books Co-op Information Orca Books – Orca Books To Convert To Cooperative, Launches Membership Drive (2019) The Olympian – Orca Books is writing its next chapter. Here’s how you can help (2019) […]
From Fifty by Fifty: The Main Street Employee Ownership Act, passed in August 2018, relies heavily on the nation’s network of Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) to educate and support business owners in transitioning their companies to employee ownership. But for the most part, SBDC business advisors aren’t familiar with employee ownership. To begin to fill […]
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 […]
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, […]
Industry: Home Care Location: Olympia, Washington Number of employees: 4 Became employee owned: 2018 Assistance from: Northwest Cooperative Development Center Learn more www.capitalhomecare.coop NWCDC – Welcome Capital Homecare Cooperative! (2018) NWCDC – Capital Home Care Cooperative (video) (2018) Senior Action Network – First Homecare Cooperative Opens Its Doors for Business (2018) Thurston Talk – A […]
Industry: Home Care Location: Port Townsend, Washington Number of employees: 21 Became employee owned: 2016 Assistance from: Northwest Cooperative Development Center Learn more www.peninsulahomecare.coop Peninsula Homecare Cooperative – A Start-up Case Study (2018) Capital Impact Partners – Harnessing the Cooperative Model to Create Quality Jobs for Aging Workers (2018) Capital Impact Partners – Creating Quality […]