From Truthout: Five years later, Reyes is now A Yard & A Half’s board president. He still works on the field team doing landscaping and hardscaping work, but he now has a much broader range of responsibilities, which include facilitating meetings, developing agendas, and meeting with the executive committee once a month. A Yard & […]
From Street Sense Media: The minimum wage in Washington D.C. is $13.25, and for people coming out of prison, even many of those jobs are out of reach. Guidance, too, is, hard to come by. Juan Reid wanted to change that. “Forming as a cooperative shows a new model to the world,” said Reid, co-founder of the Tightshift Laboring Cooperative. Tightshift, […]
Industry: Cleaning Location: Washington, DC Number of employees: 5 Became employee owned: 2019 Learn more https://www.dulcehogarcleaning.com/ We Raise – Luther Place Listens to Their Neighbors…and Responds (2018) Employee Owned Small Businesses in Washington DC
Read the full article at NPQ From Nonprofit Quarterly: Last week, a nonprofit community development financial institution (CDFI), the Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF), which has operated in the nation’s capital since 1987, launched its DC Employee Ownership Initiative to help existing worker-owned business and to support the conversion of existing firms to worker ownership. The initiative is backed by […]
From Next City: For Juan Reid, starting a worker cooperative opened the door to legal work, business ownership and healing from trauma after incarceration. A new local initiative promises to help scale the business so it can offer the same to others coming out of the criminal justice system. Growing up in a Washington, D.C. […]
From DCist: That sentiment, the desire to pull up those who have fallen, propelled Reid, along with partner Allison Basile, to start TightShift Laboring Cooperative last year. It is the only worker-owned cooperative business in D.C. comprised primarily of formerly incarcerated individuals and those at risk of entering the criminal justice system. At TightShift, which […]
Industry: Temporary Labor Location: Washington, DC Number of employees: 11 Became employee owned: 2016 Learn more https://www.tightshift.com/ Capital Impact Partners – Supporting Financial Inclusion for Returning Citizens (2019) Street Sense Media – Co-op Tightshift gives ex-prisoners a new way to work (2019) Next City – Spreading the Good News of Worker-Owned Businesses in D.C. (2018) […]
From the Democracy Collaborative: The Roundtable process (in which The Democracy Collaborative participated as consultants to the city) brought community leaders together with institutional stakeholders for a conversation about steps that could be taken to redeploy existing assets strategically to transform the economic situation on the ground in Northwest Jacksonville, where generational poverty has resulted […]
This business has closed. Industry: Tech Location: Washington, DC Number of employees: 7 Became employee owned: 2014 Learn more https://littleweaverweb.com/ The Democracy Collaborative – Worker-Owned Companies Class of 2014 (2015) Employee Owned Small Businesses in Tech Employee Owned Small Businesses in Washington DC
Industry: Food and Beverage Location: Washington, DC Number of employees: 3 Became employee owned: 2012 Learn more http://zenfulbites.co/ NCBA CLUSA – Zenful Bites Co-Founder Josephine Chu on Sustainable Food, Economic Equality and Cooperative Education (2016) Co-op DC – Josephine Chu on Everything Co-op! (2016) Taking on the Giant – Zenful Bites: Building a New Food […]