Changing its tune: Downtown Sounds to become worker-owned cooperative after retirement of founder Joe Blumenthal
From the Daily Hampshire Gazette: Downtown Sounds, a city fixture for more […]
Category: Massachusetts
Fifty by Fifty – Are Cooperatives Really So Difficult to Finance?
From Fifty by Fifty: Since 2012, CFNE has financed 15 co-op conversions […]
3Cross Fermentation Cooperative- Worcester, MA
3Cross Fermentation Cooperative is a 3-employee worker cooperative brewery in Worcester, Massachusetts. The original owner […]
Forum To Discuss Strategy For Saving Jobs When Small Businesses Close
From WAMC: Massachusetts loses an average of 42,000 jobs a year due […]
Greenfield Recorder – Greenfield’s Ewing Controls invests in itself as it takes on international projects
From the Greenfield Recorder (pdf): Both men decided to move to co-op […]
Ewing Controls – Greenfield, MA
Ewing Controls is an 11-employee worker cooperative producing automated controls for steam […]
In these Times – Retirement of Boomer Business Owners Could Leave Millions Jobless – Unless Workers Take Over
From In These Times (pdf): The federal government estimates that more than […]
A Yard and a Half Landscaping Cooperative – Waltham, MA
In January 2014, 11 worker-owners took over the operations of A Yard […]
Boston TechCollective – Cambridge, MA
Industry: Tech Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Number of employees: 6 Became employee owned: […]
Real Pickles – Greenfield, MA
Real Pickles is a Massachusetts-based company that makes pickles from regionally grown […]