Industry: Laundry
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Number of employees: 159
Became employee owned: 2009
Financing: Fund for Employee Ownership
Assistance: Ohio Employee Ownership Center
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- Fifty by Fifty – Can Worker Cooperatives Transform the Commercial Laundry Business? (2019)
- Advisory Board – At Cleveland Clinic, laundry is a 18-million-pound problem. Here’s its innovative solution (2019)
- Independent – How Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperatives created jobs in some of the poorest neighbourhoods in the rust belt (2019)
- Reasons to be Cheerful – DIY: Cleveland Comes Back (2019)
- Fast Company – This new fund will help retiring baby boomers turn their businesses into worker co-ops (2018)
- Next City – Turning Health Care into Community Wealth in Cleveland (2018)
- Reason – Can Laundry and Lettuce Save Cleveland? (2018)
- Democracy Collaborative – Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Expands to Second Plant, More than Tripling Its Workforce (2018)
- Fifty by Fifty – Number of Employees Set to Triple at Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (2018)
- Cleveland Foundation – Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Expands through Partnership with the Cleveland Clinic (2018)
- Crain’s Cleveland – Evergreen Cooperative Laundry taking over Cleveland Clinic-owned laundry facility (2018)
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – In Cleveland, co-op model finds hope in employers rooted in the city (2017)
- CNBC – A co-op that delivers on the American dream (2016)
- U.S. News – A Cleveland Success Story (2016)
- Politico – Rebuilding the Rust Belt (2015)
- P2P Foundation – The Evergreen cooperative model in Cleveland is no panacea and confronts multiple obstacles (2015)
- Fast Company – How The Evergreen Cooperative Is Lifting Cleveland Residents Out Of Poverty (2011)
- The Nation – The Cleveland Model (2010)
- Shelterforce – Green Jobs with Roots (2010)
- Loh – Reflections on Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland (2010)
- Association for Linen Management – The Evolution of the Co-Op Laundry (2010)
- Cleveland Foundation – The Cleveland Model: The Evergreen Cooperatives at Age 1 (2010)
- Yates – The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Begins Construction (2009)
- Cleveland.com – Evergreen Cooperative Laundry aims to help struggling neighborhoods around Cleveland’s University Circle (2009)
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