• LA EWDD – EWDD’s Rapid Response Team & BSC Help Employees Buy Business From Boss (2018)
• LAFLA – City Efforts to Support Small Businesses and Business Cooperatives (2013)

• SF Legacy Business Program  – Becoming Employee Owned Small Business Toolkit (2018)

• Oakland City Council – Resolution Supporting the Development of Worker Cooperatives in Oakland (2015)

• SELC – Press and Info Packet for the Oakland Worker Cooperative Development Ordinance (2016)
• BACE – Letter of Support for Oakland Worker Coop Ordinance (2016)
• Next City – Oakland Is Claiming Its Worker Cooperative Capital Title (2015)
• East Bay Express – Oakland City Council Looks to Provide Support for Worker Cooperatives (2015)

• City of Fremont – State of the City Address
• Forbes – Californian City Looks To Keep Its Factories Locally-Owned

• SELC – Santa Clara says YES to Creating a City for Worker Coops to Thrive (2019)
• USFWC – Santa Clara City Council Supports Worker Cooperatives (2019)
• NCBA – Santa Clara, California is taking steps to invest in worker cooperatives (2019)
• City of Santa Clara – City Council and City Staff study session on Worker Cooperatives (2019)
• Mercury News – How employee ownership can prevent loss of beloved businesses and local jobs (2019)

• City of Berkeley – Worker Cooperative Policy 2017
• City of Berkeley – Resolution Recommendation Feb 2016
• City of Berkeley – Resolution Recommendation Dec 2015
• SELC – Worker Cooperative City Policies
• Bay Area Cooperative Ecosystem – Berkeley’s Worker Cooperative Economy
• SELC – Berkeley Policy to Support Worker Cooperatives 2017
• SELC – Historic Berkeley Vote Supporting Worker Cooperatives
• SELC – Berkeley Worker Cooperative Resolution Passes!
• Berkeleyside – Op-ed: Berkeley worker co-op resolution could usher in equitable economic development (2016)

• City of Richmond – RFQ (July 2011)
• Presentation of Mondragon Cooperative by Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and Marilyn Langlois of Office of Mayor of Richmond City (Video, October 2010)
• Cooperation Richmond
• Shareable – How Cooperation Richmond is empowering marginalized communities to build an equitable economy (March 2018)
• Terry Baird – Richmond’s Cooperative Initiative (Vide, October 2011)
• Camou – Cities Developing Worker Cooperatives: Efforts in 10 Cities
• Eatable – Local caterers take the boss out of the kitchen (May 2014)
• Financial Times – When the workers run the show (2012)
• Fast Company – Hippie Capitalism: How An Impoverished U.S. City Is Building An Economy On Co-ops (May 2012)
• LA Times – They’re owning this cooperation (November 2011)
• GEO – Richmond, California’s Green Party Mayor Signs “Letter of Intent” with Spain’s Mondragon Coops
• Richmond Confidential – A new business model for Richmond (October 2010)

• City of Santa Ana Community Development Agency- Internal Worker Coop Policy (2018)
• City of Santa Ana – Resolution Supporting the Development and Growth of Worker Cooperatives (2017)
• Santa Ana Policy Economic Development Committee – Update (2017)

• Chispa – Worker Cooperatives Pave The Way For A Community Driven Economy In Santa Ana (2017)
• LA Times – As Santa Ana gentrification hits their pocketbooks, immigrants turn to co-ops to help make ends meet (2017)
• NPQ – Another City Comes Out for Converting Local Businesses into Worker Cooperatives (2017)
• OC Weekly – Santa Ana City Council Takes First Step Towards Supporting Worker Cooperatives (2017)
• Orange County Register – Santa Ana is first Orange County city to formally support worker cooperatives (2017)
• Voice of OC – Santa Ana Officials Endorse Worker-Owned Businesses and Declare Intent to Support Them (2017)

• Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade – Employee Ownership Network
• Colorado General Assembly – HB17-1214 Encourage Employee Ownership Of Existing Small Business
• Office of Economic Development § 24-48.5-124. Preserving small businesses through employee ownership
• Denver SBDC – Employee Ownership
• Co-opLaw-org – Colorado

• Denver Post – Employee-owned businesses receive boost from Colorado commission (2019)
• Denver Post – Colorado launches initiative to boost employee ownership of businesses (2019)
• Fifty by Fifty – Colorado Leads States in Preparing to Scale Employee Ownership (2019)
• Denver Business Journal – A look inside Gov. Jared Polis’ push to increase employee-owned businesses (2019)
• KOAA News 5 – Gov. Polis signs executive order to establish commission on employee ownership (2019)
• Daniel T. goodlin Law – Colorado Legislative Watch: Encouraging Employee Ownership Of Small Businesses (2017)

• Florida Cooperative Act (Chapter 719, Florida Statutes)
• Jimerson Birr – 2018 Legislative Changes To The Florida Cooperative Act

• City of Miami – Resolution allowing EDLF funds for cooperative conversions (2018)
• City of Miami– SEED Fellowship Presentation (2018)
  

• GCDC – Legal Corner: In What State Should We Organize Our Co-op? (2018)

• City of Atlanta – SEED Fellowship Presentation (2018)

• Fifty by Fifty – Illinois 14th State to Legally Recognize Worker Cooperatives (2019)
• Center for Healthy Work – Worker Cooperatives will now have their own corporate entity in Illinois (2019)
• NPR – Illinois Proposal Aims To Empower Worker Co-Ops (2019)
• Next City – Clearing the Legal and Financial Pathway for Worker Cooperatives in Illinois (2019)
• Chicago Reporter – Worker cooperatives face particular challenges in Illinois (2018)
• The Public i – Worker Co-ops in Illinois and Their Future (2017)

• Cook County – Proposed Resolution Supporting the Development of Worker Cooperatives in Cook County, illinois (2018)

• Fifty by Fifty – Chicago Turns to Cooperatives to Improve Opportunity (2019)
• NPQ – Worker Cooperative Resolution Passes Unanimously in Cook County (2018)
• IWCA – Cooperation Chicago: Building Chicago’s Worker Cooperative Ecosystem (2018)
• Chicago Economy Summit – Building the Chicagoland Ecosystem: Advocating for the Policy Changes That We Need (2018)
• Forbes – A New Push For Employee Ownership in Chicago (2018)

• Levinson, Ly, Fenwick, Klump (University of Louisville), Rutledge (Stoll Keenon Ogden) – Alleviating Food Insecurity via Cooperative By-laws (2019)
• Levinson – Founding Worker Cooperatives: Social Movement Theory and the Law. (2014)

• BRED – City of Baltimore commits funding to help BRED accelerate business conversions to worker cooperatives (2019)

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts – General Law 157a

From the city

• City of Boston – Employee Ownership Help
• Mayors’ Office of Workforce Development – Boston showcases interest in worker-owned companies (2017)
• City of Boston – Better Business Through Cooperation (2017)
• City of Boston – Order for a Hearing Regarding Cooperative Ownership (2016)

Media

• Politico – How Boston Is Becoming the City Where Workers Rule (2020)
• Harvard Government Innovators Network – Employee Ownership Initiative (2018)
• NLC – An Inside Look at Equitable Economic Development in Boston (2017)

• Worcester Roots – Announcing a partnership with City of Worcester’s Office of Economic Development (2019)

• Michigan Legislature – The Employee-owned Corporation Act

• Minnesota Statutes – CHAPTER 308B. COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS
• Minnesota Secretary of State – Minnesota Cooperative forms
• Dorsey Whitney – Minnesota Legislature Adopts New Cooperative Associations Act: Coops Should Carefully Review Options to Avoid Pitfalls (2003)

• City of Minneapolis – Co-operative Technical Assistance Program (C-TAP)
• City of Minneapolis – Cooperatives in Minneapolis: An inventory and assessment (2016)

• Newark CDC and City of Newark Employee Ownership Program Description (2018)

From the City:

• NYC SBS Working Together: A Report on the Fifth Year of the Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (2019)
  
• NYC SBS Working Together: A Report on the Fourth Year of the Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (2018)
• NYC SBS Working Together: A Report on the Third Year of the Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (2017)
• NYC SBS Working Together: A Report on the Second Year of the Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (2016)
• NYC SBS Working Together: A Report on the First Year of the Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (2015)
• NYC Small Business Services and Workforce Development Budget Allocation FY 2015

Articles and reports:

• Owner to Owners Campaign Final Report (2021)
• NPQ – Building a Worker Co-op Ecosystem: Lessons from the Big Apple (2020)
• NYC NoWC – NYC Council Enhances WCBDI to $3.048 Million (2017)
• PolicyLink – New York City Invests in Worker Co-ops — and Equitable Growth (2015)
• NPQ – Scaling Up those Worker Co-ops: New York City Makes an Investment (2014)
• Next City – NYC Takes a $1.2 Million Step Toward Fighting Corporate Greed (2014)
• Truthout – Leveling the Playing Field for Worker Cooperatives (2014)
• FPWA – Worker Cooperatives for New York City: A Vision for Addressing Income Inequality (2014)

• City of Buffalo – Resolution on Worker Owned Cooperatives (2014)
• PUSH Buffalo – Economic Democracy Report (2012)

• Democracy Collaborative – Rochester’s Market Driven Community Cooperatives Corporation

• Justia – 2005 North Carolina Code – Chapter 54 — Cooperative Organizations
• Co-opLaw.org – North Carolina

• City of Durham – SEED Fellowship Presentation (2018)

• The Southwest Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board – Partner Spotlight:
  Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative (2019)

• Waging Nonviolence – Cincinnati’s experiment with an economy that works for everyone (2015)

• OregonLaws.org – Chapter 62 Cooperatives

• Justia – 2014 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Title 15 – CORPORATIONS AND UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATIONS, Chapter 77 – Workers’ Cooperative Corporations
• DMLP – Forming a Journalism Cooperative in Pennsylvania

• City of Philadelphia – SEED Fellowship Presentation (2018)
• Philadelphia Inquirer – Philly wants to teach retiring business owners how to sell — to their workers (2018)
• Generocity – 3 local gov staffers are studying other cities’ co-ops to boost Philly’s democratic biz economy (2018)
• Next City – Worker Co-ops Catch on in Philadelphia (2018)
• NLC – Employee-Owned Businesses a Tool for Equitable Growth (2018)
• PACA – Public Policy to Support the Growth of Cooperative Businesses in Philadelphia (2018)
• PACA – City Council Asks (2018)
• Philadelphia Sun – Philadelphia to join ten other cities in investing in cooperative development (2016)

• PACEO – Pittsburgh Citywide Task Force on Employee Ownership (2019)
• NCEO – Pittsburgh Launches Employee Ownership Task Force (2019)
• BTA – Pittsburgh City Council Voices Strong Support for Employee Ownership (2019)

• City of Austin EPC – Recommendation Regarding Worker Cooperatives (2017)
• City of Austin – Cooperative Resolution (2017)
• City of Austin EDD – Supporting Cooperatively Owned Businesses (2016)

• ACBA – Position Summary (2017)
• Cooperation Texas – Beyond Business as Usual (2015)

• Title 11: Corporations, Partnerships and Associations. Chapter 8: Worker Cooperative Corporations

• VEOC – VEOC Partners with Burlington Community Economic Development Office to Educate on Employee Ownership Options (2018)

• Chapter 23.78 RCW EMPLOYEE COOPERATIVE CORPORATIONS
• Dorsey – Washington State’s Cooperative Law Overhauled Effective January 1, 2016

• NWCDC – Olympia Council member Renata Rollins speaks about co-ops (video) (2019)

• DC Worker Cooperative Coalition – Policy Recommendations (2015)

• City of Madison – Approving the Scope of Services for the Cooperative Enterprise Development Program for 2019 and directing staff to assist the Madison Cooperative Development Coalition (MCDC) in forming a new non-profit entity creating an Executive Board for the Madison Cooperative Development Coalition.
• City of Madison – Resolution accepting the staff recommendation to select Madison Development Corporation to act as the loan manager and Cooperative Network to oversee the technical assistance providers for the Cooperative Enterprise Development Program; and, authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute contracts with each organization. (2016)
• City of Madison – 2016 Cooperative Enterprise Development Program FAQ
• City of Madison – 2016 Economic Development Strategy
• City of Madison – 2015 Worker Cooperative Fund Program RFP
• City of Madison – Cooperative Enterprises CIP FAQ
• UWCC – Madison Cooperative Development Coalition
• MCDC – Partner Profile
• Kemble – Worker Cooperative Development Initiative 2016 (slides)
• Schlachter – Madison Coop Development Coalition Case Study
• Cooperative Growth Ecosystem – Madison, Wisconsin
• City of Madison 2012 Coop Conference [archived]
• Fast Company – Madison, Wisconsin, Is Investing $5 Million In Worker Cooperatives (February 2015)