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September 5, 2024 Everything Co-op continues its series continue honoring the 2024 Cooperative Hall of Fame inductees, featuring an interview with Christina Clamp, the retired director of the Center for Co-operatives and Community Economic Development. Christina and Vernon explore her extensive contributions to the cooperative movement throughout her journey, and the many ways cooperatives have been used to solve community problems. Christina Clamp recently retired after 42 years at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), as a professor of sociology and director of the Center for Co-operatives and Community Economic Development. Currently she is working as the principal investigator with the American Sustainable Business Network, on a best practice study of BIPOC and women's experiences in disadvantaged communities catalyzing community wealth. She is nationally and internationally recognized for her work in the study of and promotion of cooperative ownership of businesses. Christina has been actively involved in promoting the study of cooperatives since her dissertation which was a study of management in the Mondragon cooperatives. In 2023, she coedited and published with Michael Peck, Humanity@Work & Life (Cork: Oak Tree Press). In 2019, Professor Clamp published Shared Service Cooperatives, A Qualitative Analysis with co-authors Eklou Amendah and Carol Coren (Cork: Oak Tree Press). Professor Clamp has served as a consultant to various clients including the National Cooperative Bank (Washington DC), and US Department of Agriculture Rural Development. She completed an interdisciplinary bachelor's degree at Friends World College (now Global College of Long Island University) and her master's and doctoral degrees in sociology at Boston College. In her spare time, she volunteers on the boards of the Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, the ICA Group, and the Fund for Jobs Worth Owning.

12.7.2023 Christina Jennings, Christina Clamp. Michael Peck & Kevin O'Brien Share Products & Services for the Mind from Everything Co-op's 2023 Co-op Holiday List. Everything Co-op continues its Inaugural 2023 Holiday List, a thoughtfully curated list of products and services from the cooperative community. In this 2nd installment Vernon introduces listeners to three of his picks for your "Mind" and "Community". Christina Jennings, Executive Director of Shared Capital, Christina Clamp, Director of the Center for Co-operatives and Economic Development, Michael Peck, executive director and co-founder of 1worker1vote, and Kevin O'Brien, General Manager of Worx Printing, will share their products and services featured in the 2023 Holiday list. Christina Jennings is the Executive Director of Shared Capital Cooperative, a national CDFI loan fund that provides financing to support the growth and development of cooperatively owned businesses and affordable housing. Christina has more than 25 years of experience in community development finance in the US and internationally. The focus of her work has been on economic justice and creating equitable access to capital. She joined Shared Capital in 2008 where she provides strategic leadership, oversees lending, and leads capitalization efforts. She has also launched and managed small businesses and social ventures. Christina Clamp is the Director of the Center for Co-operatives and Economic Development, and has over 40 years of teaching experience at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), as a professor of Sociology. She is also a consulting researcher on a national study of catalyzing community wealth with the American Sustainable Business Network. Christina has been actively involved in promoting the study of cooperatives since her dissertation, which was a study of management in the Mondragon cooperatives. She has served as a consultant to various clients including National Cooperative Bank and US Department of Agriculture Rural Development. Her board work includes board chair of LEAF, a CDFI; the ICA Group and the Fund for Jobs Worth Owning. Michael Peck serves as executive director and cofounder of 1worker1vote. Emerging from the October 2009 collaboration MOU between the United Steelworkers and Mondragon International, 1worker1vote serves as fiscal sponsor for the 2022-2023 Build Mutualism Campaign. Peck is also co-founder and managing director of a second for-profit start-up, The Virtuous Cycle Collaboratory, a majority-minority worker cooperative and social enterprise (mission: to “flatten unequal socioeconomic curves into shared prosperity virtuous cycles”). Kevin O'Brien is the founder and general manager of the worker-owned union cooperative Worx Printing in Worcester, MA (USW 2936). Worx is a third generation evolution of the Union Co-Op Model codified in 1worker1vote by the United Steelworkers and the Mondragon Cooperative. For 28 years, he has been dedicated to cooperating with others to advance anti-sweatshop movement policies and practices in the apparel industry. His experiences have helped thousands of Labor Unions, Nonprofits and Political Campaigns to lift awareness, advance campaigns and programs, and improve fundraising results using ethically manufactured branded merchandise.

SUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee ownership and the investment made by Kendeda was historic. Over 5 years a total of $24 million dollars was provided to 4 employee owner support organizations. Those organizations include The Evergreen Cooperatives Fund for Employee Ownership, ICA Group, Nexus Community Partners, and Project Equity. The investment was made with four broad goals in mind – grow the number of employee-owned businesses, use patient capital to leverage investments, strengthen core elements of the employee ownership ecosystem, and amplify media coverage of employee ownership.   Upon entering the 5th year of the grant, Kendeda contracted with the Ohio Employee Ownership Center to carry out a reflection process that looked back on what these four organizations where able to achieve, assess what they learned, and identify future actions that would further develop and expand employee ownership in the US. The reflection process relied on numerous forms of data collection including in-person meetings, long form one on one interviews with grantees, selling owners, and new employee owners, analysis of transition data, and comparisons of the four grantees models for transitioning companies to employee ownership. The culmination of our findings was then published in a narrative report that drew on the insights of all stakeholders involved, which we encourage you to read.  However, like all reports, we could not include every bit of information we gathered.  But we strongly felt it necessary to provide grantee organizations with the space to explain, in their own words, how and why they do the work they do, how Kendeda's investment helped them expand their impact, and where they see their work going in the future.  So, this interview with David Hammer of ICA Group, is one in a series of interviews we carried out with organization that received support from the Kendeda Fund.   READ THE REPORT: www.oeockent.org/kendeda-employee-ownership-big-bet  GRANTEE INFORMATION   ICA Group: https://icagroup.org/   Nexus Community Partners: https://www.nexuscp.org/   Project Equity: https://project-equity.org/   The Fund for Employee Ownership: https://www.evgoh.com/tfeo/ WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: We are always looking for new employee ownership stories to tell. Please contact us with your story at oeoc@kent.edu   SUPPORT THE SHOW: We make all episodes of Owners at Work free and never place them behind a paywall. But, they take time and money to produce. Consider making a DONATION today to help keep our work going. 

SUMMARY   Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee ownership and the investment made by Kendeda was historic. Over 5 years a total of $24 million dollars was provided to 4 employee owner support organizations. Those organizations include The Evergreen Cooperatives Fund for Employee Ownership, ICA Group, Nexus Community Partners, and Project Equity. The investment was made with four broad goals in mind – grow the number of employee-owned businesses, use patient capital to leverage investments, strengthen core elements of the employee ownership ecosystem, and amplify media coverage of employee ownership.   Upon entering the 5th year of the grant, Kendeda contracted with the Ohio Employee Ownership Center to carry out a reflection process that looked back on what these four organizations where able to achieve, assess what they learned, and identify future actions that would further develop and expand employee ownership in the US. The reflection process relied on numerous forms of data collection including in-person meetings, long form one on one interviews with grantees, selling owners, and new employee owners, analysis of transition data, and comparisons of the four grantees models for transitioning companies to employee ownership. The culmination of our findings was then published in a narrative report that drew on the insights of all stakeholders involved, which we encourage you to read.  However, like all reports, we could not include every bit of information we gathered.  But we strongly felt it necessary to provide grantee organizations with the space to explain, in their own words, how and why they do the work they do, how Kendeda's investment helped them expand their impact, and where they see their work going in the future.  So, this interview with Jeanette Webster and Emma Sherrie of the Fund for Employee Ownership is one in a series of interviews we carried out with organization that received support from the Kendeda Fund.   READ THE REPORT: www.oeockent.org/kendeda-employee-ownership-big-bet  GRANTEE INFORMATION   ICA Group: https://icagroup.org/   Nexus Community Partners: https://www.nexuscp.org/   Project Equity: https://project-equity.org/   The Fund for Employee Ownership: https://www.evgoh.com/tfeo/   WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: We are always looking for new employee ownership stories to tell. Please contact us with your story at oeoc@kent.edu   SUPPORT THE SHOW: We make all episodes of Owners at Work free and never place them behind a paywall. But, they take time and money to produce. Consider making a DONATION today to help keep our work going. 

SUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee ownership and the investment made by Kendeda was historic. Over 5 years a total of $24 million dollars was provided to 4 employee owner support organizations. Those organizations include The Evergreen Cooperatives Fund for Employee Ownership, ICA Group, Nexus Community Partners, and Project Equity. The investment was made with four broad goals in mind – grow the number of employee-owned businesses, use patient capital to leverage investments, strengthen core elements of the employee ownership ecosystem, and amplify media coverage of employee ownership.   Upon entering the 5th year of the grant, Kendeda contracted with the Ohio Employee Ownership Center to carry out a reflection process that looked back on what these four organizations where able to achieve, assess what they learned, and identify future actions that would further develop and expand employee ownership in the US. The reflection process relied on numerous forms of data collection including in-person meetings, long form one on one interviews with grantees, selling owners, and new employee owners, analysis of transition data, and comparisons of the four grantees models for transitioning companies to employee ownership. The culmination of our findings was then published in a narrative report that drew on the insights of all stakeholders involved, which we encourage you to read.  However, like all reports, we could not include every bit of information we gathered.  But we strongly felt it necessary to provide grantee organizations with the space to explain, in their own words, how and why they do the work they do, how Kendeda's investment helped them expand their impact, and where they see their work going in the future.  So, this interview with Alison Lingane of Project Equity, is one in a series of interviews we carried out with organization that received support from the Kendeda Fund.   READ THE REPORT: www.oeockent.org/kendeda-employee-ownership-big-bet  GRANTEE INFORMATION   ICA Group: https://icagroup.org/   Nexus Community Partners: https://www.nexuscp.org/   Project Equity: https://project-equity.org/   The Fund for Employee Ownership: https://www.evgoh.com/tfeo/ WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: We are always looking for new employee ownership stories to tell. Please contact us with your story at oeoc@kent.edu   SUPPORT THE SHOW: We make all episodes of Owners at Work free and never place them behind a paywall. But, they take time and money to produce. Consider making a DONATION today to help keep our work going. 

SUMMARY Back in 2018 the Kendeda Fund, a philanthropic foundation based in Atlanta, decided to make a series of big bets in areas that were both critical and timely. One of those areas was employee ownership and the investment made by Kendeda was historic. Over 5 years a total of $24 million dollars was provided to 4 employee owner support organizations. Those organizations include The Evergreen Cooperatives Fund for Employee Ownership, ICA Group, Nexus Community Partners, and Project Equity. The investment was made with four broad goals in mind – grow the number of employee-owned businesses, use patient capital to leverage investments, strengthen core elements of the employee ownership ecosystem, and amplify media coverage of employee ownership.   Upon entering the 5th year of the grant, Kendeda contracted with the Ohio Employee Ownership Center to carry out a reflection process that looked back on what these four organizations where able to achieve, assess what they learned, and identify future actions that would further develop and expand employee ownership in the US. The reflection process relied on numerous forms of data collection including in-person meetings, long form one on one interviews with grantees, selling owners, and new employee owners, analysis of transition data, and comparisons of the four grantees models for transitioning companies to employee ownership. The culmination of our findings was then published in a narrative report that drew on the insights of all stakeholders involved, which we encourage you to read.  However, like all reports, we could not include every bit of information we gathered.  But we strongly felt it necessary to provide grantee organizations with the space to explain, in their own words, how and why they do the work they do, how Kendeda's investment helped them expand their impact, and where they see their work going in the future.  So, this interview with Christina Nicholson and Paty Viafara of Nexus Community Partners, is one in a series of interviews we carried out with organization that received support from the Kendeda Fund.   READ THE REPORT: www.oeockent.org/kendeda-employee-ownership-big-bet  GRANTEE INFORMATION   ICA Group: https://icagroup.org/   Nexus Community Partners: https://www.nexuscp.org/   Project Equity: https://project-equity.org/   The Fund for Employee Ownership: https://www.evgoh.com/tfeo/ WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU: We are always looking for new employee ownership stories to tell. Please contact us with your story at oeoc@kent.edu   SUPPORT THE SHOW: We make all episodes of Owners at Work free and never place them behind a paywall. But, they take time and money to produce. Consider making a DONATION today to help keep our work going. 

April 20, 2023 Everything Co-op continues its coverage of "Humanity@Work&life-Global Diffusion of the Mondragon Cooperative Ecosystem Experience,” with co-editor Christina Clamp, Director of the Center for Co-operatives & Community Economic Development, and contributing author, Terry Lewis, CFO at the Center for Community Based Enterprise. Christina gives an overview of the book, and Terry discusses her experience of Building Mondragon in Detroit. Christina Clamp is the Director of the Center for Co-operatives and Economic Development, and has over 40 years of teaching experience at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), as a professor of Sociology. She is also a consulting researcher on a national study of catalyzing community wealth with the American Sustainable Business Network. Nationally and internationally recognized for her work in the study and promotion of cooperative ownership of businesses, Christina has been actively involved in promoting the study of cooperatives since her dissertation, which was a study of management in the Mondragon cooperatives. She has served as a consultant to various clients including National Cooperative Bank and US Department of Agriculture Rural Development. Her board work includes board chair of LEAF, a CDFI (community development finance institution); the ICA Group and the Fund for Jobs Worth Owning. Terry Lewis is the CFO of the Center for Community-Based Enterprises (C2BE) and Principal of LIA Advisors, LLC, a private consulting firm providing advisory services in community economic development. Formerly, she was Vice President of Cooperative Development for National Cooperative Bank (NCB), where she advised internal NCB teams and NCB customers in multiple lines of business on the structuring and development of cooperative and other community ownership entities. She also served as President and CEO of NCB Community Works, LLC, an affiliated for-profit affordable multi-family housing development organization. In 2011 President Barack Obama appointed Terry to the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. government's development finance institution, where she served until the agency sunset, to be replaced by the U.S. Development Finance Corporation in 2019. At OPIC, she served as a member of the organization's Audit and Risk Committees. From 1991 to 2014, she was a Director of the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF), where she served as Treasurer, and 8 years as Chair, managing governance, strategy, and the oversight functions of multiple grant and loan funds. She was inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame in 2008. “Humanity@Work&life - Global Diffusion of the Mondragon Cooperative Ecosystem Experience”, published by Oak Tree Press, frames a collective labor of earned merit, vision and determination by 36 contributors in six countries, three continents, proving how solidarity, innovation, and conviction forge sustaining local and global social economy practice on behalf of the greater common good.

Sarah Durham is an entrepreneur and creative consultant passionate about helping entrepreneurs. She founded Big Duck in 1994 to help nonprofits increase their visibility, raise money, and communicate more effectively. Now, she serves on its board of directors after selling the business to her employees in 2021. Sarah now provides coaching to entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and women in leadership roles through her firm Compton Durham. For more information, you can go to comptondurham.com. If you are thinking about exit planning from your business, I have an amazing expert who will speak to you about how she transitioned out of her business, and it's probably not what you would think. As we talk with Sarah Durham today, we discuss two different transitions Sarah made from her own companies, including an employee-ownership model with Big Duck. She shares her wisdom on owner transitions, so listen in to a great episode for any leader. "As we were transitioning to a place where I was separating from the business, I really had to practice letting go, and I really had to stop being central to conversations in order to make space for my colleagues to practice stepping into those decisions." – Sarah DurhamThis week on SmallBizChat Podcast:Transitioning to an employee-owned business. Planning your exit strategy before you're ready to transition.Employee ownership for small businesses. Types of employee-owned organizations. Sarah's work as a coach with other companies transitioning. Running and growing your business to be saleable. Difficulties of transitioning to employee ownership. Resources Mentioned:EO Equals: https://employeeownershipequals.org/ ICA Group: https://icagroup.org/ BossQuiz: https://bossquiz.com/ Connect with Sarah Durham:Website: https://www.comptondurham.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahdurham/

Welcome to Episode 1097; Future of sustainability reporting to retailers and financial markets - the development of globally standardized metrics Welcome to Wine2Wine Business Forum 2021 Series. The sessions are recorded and uploaded on Italian Wine Podcast. wine2wine is an international wine business forum, held annually in Verona Italy since 2014. The event is a key reference point for wine producers and a diverse variety of wine professionals eager to develop and grow their wine business worldwide. About today's session: “Sustainability” in the wine industry oscillates between being the most important topic for the future of the industry and a useless buzzword. The key to making sustainable wine into something tangible and easy to understand for consumers, buyers, journalists and the industry itself is covering the whole supply chain in the work, finding an industry wide agreement on the most important practices, and including science backed metrics. About the Speakers EricaLandinLöfving is the Chief Sustainability Officer of the publicly traded wine group Vintage Wine Estates (Nasdaq: VWE) in California. She joined VWE in June of 2021 after many years as a sustainability focused wine writer in Sweden (Decanter, Allt om Vin, Wine Enthusiast, Meininger's WBI etc) and consultant in sustainable food systems and certifications (Systembolaget, ICA Group, Orkla, Electrolux…) Mrs. Landin-Lofving has a MSc. in Biology, continued studies in Oenology, WSET III, Sustainable Business Strategy and financial ESG analysis. Though she likes the sustainability impact of working with larger companies, her favorite wines often come from small family producers or “natural” wine projects. The newly launched Sustainable Wine Roundtable, where she is on the steering committee, will be open to members from all parts of the wine industry, of all sizes, from 2022 Connect Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/erica.landin.3 Instagram: @scandinaviangreen Twitter: @ericawinetrips Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica-lofving/ Moderator Dr. Laura Catena is a Harvard and Stanford trained biologist and physician, and she founded the Catena Institute of Wine in Argentina in 1995. The Institute is dedicated to preserving the Malbec variety and to elevating Argentine wine. Dr. Catena is currently managing director of Bodega Catena Zapata (est. 1902) as well as her own Luca winery. In 2017, Bodega Catena Zapata received Argentina's Extraordinary Winery Award from Parker's The Wine Advocate, while Vivino's Wine Style Awards named it the most awarded winery in the world in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Just this year, Drinks International named Catena Zapata the world's most admired wine brand Connect Instagram: @lauracatenamd Twitter: @LauraCatena Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-laura-catena-054987195/ Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show Until next time, cin cin!

How to support the data needs of several business lines when you coordinate it all from the group level? Olof Granberg is a consumer data guru at ICA Group, leading a team that provides shared platforms and builds consumer-led use-cases with operating companies. At the same time, they push data ownership and governance to be natural parts of business development. Get to know their journey! Remember to join the Data Insiders community

Join Lori and her guest, Farra Trompeter in this discussion about nonprofit communications and fundraising. Farra is the co-director and member-owner of Big Duck, a consulting firm that helps nonprofits with their branding and campaigns. Stay tuned as she talks about the value of communications in reaching fundraising goals!   Here are the things to expect in this episode: People will respond to the passion and joy that they hear in your voice. In this day and age, what marketing and fundraising strategies work for nonprofits? What are some of the big changes right now in fundraising for nonprofits? And many more!   About Farra Trompeter:   As Big Duck's Co-Director, Farra ensures that Big Duck is a healthy, thriving company—that we're creating a great work environment, are financially stable, producing work that successfully meets or exceeds client's needs, and that diversity, inclusion, equity, and antiracism are centered in all we do. She directs Big Duck's marketing and business development efforts, seeking to build relationships with nonprofits who want to use communications to achieve their mission.   Farra has led dozens of organizations through major brand overhauls, fundraising campaigns, and much more since joining Big Duck in 2007. She's a frequent speaker around the country, training nonprofit staff and board members on branding, communications planning, and engaging donors at all giving levels.   Farra was born an activist on Long Island, organizing to end hunger, prevent drunk driving, and right other wrongs. She studied psychology at American University where she started and led a public health awareness organization called Students for Healthy Decisions. During the nine years she lived in DC, Farra worked on fundraising and social marketing for the National Breast Cancer Coalition, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In 2002, Farra moved to San Francisco and dove into the wonderful world of online fundraising with Donordigital. In 2004, she came home to New York to get her Master of Science in Nonprofit Management at The New School and soon joined the team at Douglas Gould and Company to lead online engagement projects.   Farra is also a part-time faculty member at New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where she teaches a class about strategic communications for nonprofit and public service organizations. She previously served as a board member for NTEN, an organization working to create a world where nonprofits fulfill their missions through the skillful and racially equitable use of technology, and for the NYC Anti-Violence Project, an organization that mobilizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and HIV-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and supports survivors through counseling and advocacy.   Farra is also a member of Big Duck's board of directors.   Connect with Farra! Website: https://bigduck.com/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-smart-communications-podcast/id1368653994 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farra/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/farra?s=20   Organizations mentioned:    The Hunger Project: https://thp.org/ Community Centric Fundraising: https://communitycentricfundraising.org/ The Ethical Rainmaker: https://www.theethicalrainmaker.com/ Nonprofit AF: https://nonprofitaf.com/ NYC Anti-Violence Project: https://avp.org/ NTEN: https://www.nten.org/ ICA Group: https://icagroup.org/employeeownership/ Landmark Worldwide: https://www.landmarkworldwide.com/ Students Against Destructive Decisions: https://www.sadd.org/   Melissa Bradly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissalbradley/   Connect with Lori Kranczer! Website: https://www.everydayplannedgiving.com/  Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/positiveimpactphilanthropy  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorikranczer/  

Clark R. Arrington, General Counsel of The Working World, Inc., a cooperative that builds cooperative businesses in low-income communities; and Senior Fellow at Seed Commons, a community wealth cooperative. He's an experienced attorney and educator who specializes in worker ownership cooperatives and socially responsible business practices. Prior to joining The Working World Inc., and Seed Commons, he spent most of his professional life teaching courses related to cooperatives, business law, and community economic development at more than half a dozen institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Beginning with a teaching job immediately after college in Chicago, he went on to The University of Southern New Hampshire, The Open University of Tanzania; and Kampala International University-Dar es Salaam College. Throughout his career, Clark has used his legal acumen to address capital formation issues for worker cooperatives, and has played a critical role in leveraging millions of dollars of new investment for social justice cooperatives. As a young lawyer he learned about cooperatives and community land trusts when he was with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives. Well known as an innovator in cooperative finance, Clark finds innovative ways for worker-owned, social justice-minded businesses to raise capital and be profitable without sacrificing democratic control. Clark served as Chair, General Counsel and Capital Coordinator of Equal Exchange and has also served on the boards of the ICA Group, the Social Venture Network, and the Cooperative Fund of New England. His bold vision, reliable pragmatism, and tireless efforts are key to promoting and developing innovative financing structures that are sensitive to the cooperative principles of member ownership, control and benefit.

Camille Kerr, Founder & principal of Upside Down Consulting, discusses ChiFresh, and how social justice is integrated into her business. through Upside Down Consulting Camille is working to build a democratic economy in service to U.S. social justice movements including organizations advancing Black liberation, immigrant rights, food justice, and the U.S. labor movement. She specializes in cooperative startup development, managing complex worker-centered initiatives, supporting existing businesses to become worker-owned, as well as policy advocacy and drafting. In partnership with Chicago organizers, Camille helped found ChiFresh Kitchen, a worker cooperative food service contracting business owned and determined primarily by formerly incarcerated folks living in the south and west sides of Chicago. She is currently a nonvoting shareholder and management consultant for ChiFresh. Before starting Upside Down Consulting, Camille served as the Associate Director of The ICA Group, the Director of Field Building at the Democracy at Work Institute and the Director of Research at the National Center for Employee Ownership. She has a law degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law where she was awarded a human rights fellowship and graduated cum laude.

Iowa Business Report Monday EditionJuly 12, 2021Jennie Msall of the ICA Group discusses how to convert to a workers coop business format.

Iowa Business Report Thursday EditionJuly 08, 2021Jennie Msall of the ICA Group discusses business transition models.

 Iowa Business Report Tuesday EditionMay 18, 2021    Jennie Msall of the ICA Group on using worker coops as a form of business transition.

On this edition of the Iowa Business Report:Jennie Msall of the ICA Group on business transition strategies, including worker coops and webinars with Advance Iowa on the topic.Record-setting economic index numbers in the Midwest.In this week's "Business Profile", we Ron Williams of ZZ Roofing and Siding and the Perfect Cut Gutter Company, based in Eastern Iowa.For more, go to totallyiowa.com and click on the "radio programs" link.   Presented by Advance Iowa, on line at advanceiowa.com. Search for "Advance Iowa" on LinkedIn and Facebook, as well.

Iowa Business Report Friday EditionMay 07, 2021  Jennie Msall of the ICA Group on business transition strategies.

Episode 18 On this edition, we chat with Dave Hammer from ICA Group. https://icagroup.org/ connecticut.consciouscapitalism.org/

Part two of our conversation about affordable housing andcommunity economic development focuses on the factors that create vibrant, successfulcommunities in urban and rural areas alike, using Maine as a case study. We alsodiscuss how law can be a contributor to effective development efforts. Our guests areGreg Payne of the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition and Avesta Housing; ProfessorPeter Pitegoff of the University of Maine School of Law; and Nina Ciffolillo, theEconomic Justice Fellow for the Class of 2021 at the University of Maine School of Law.Greg Payne is the Director of the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition and aDevelopment Officer at Avesta Housing. Greg has nearly two decades of experience inissues related to housing and homelessness, including work at the Atlanta Task Forcefor the Homeless and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless. Greg joinedAvesta Housing in 2007 as a Development Officer. In addition to his responsibilities formanaging all aspects of multifamily rental projects from concept to completion, Gregserves as Director of the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition, a diverse association ofmore than 125 private and public sector organizations committed to ensuring that allMainers are adequately and affordably housed. He is currently the Chair of the Board ofDirectors of the National Low Income Housing Coalition and serves on the Board ofGenesis Community Loan Fund.Peter Pitegoff is Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law, where hewas Dean from 2005 to 2015. He has taught, worked, and written extensively in theareas of community economic development, labor and industrial organization,corporation and nonprofit law, employee ownership, and legal ethics. Pitegoff served forten years on the board of directors of Coastal Enterprises, Inc., a national leader incommunity development finance. Prior to his academic career, he was legal counsel forthe ICA Group, a Boston firm that assists worker-owned enterprises and relatedeconomic development initiatives nationwide.Nina Ciffolillo is a second year law student at the University of Maine School of Law.She graduated from McGill University with a degree in English and Environment andmoved to Maine in 2016, where she worked for two seasons on a vegetable farm. Shebegan at Maine Law in 2018 and is the Economic Justice Fellow for the Class of 2021.Last summer, in connection with her fellowship, she worked in affordable housingdevelopment and policy at Avesta Housing. She plans to use her law degree to combateconomic and environmental injustice.

I dagens avsnitt gästas vi av Åsa Daxberg, Head of Talent Attraction and Recruitment på ICA Group. Hon delar med sig av sina upplevelser hos TeliaSonera under 2000-talets teknologiska revolution, och hur ICA brottas med att matcha sin fantastiska kundupplevelse med rekryteringen av nya medarbetare. Sist berättar Åsa om sin bok som skrevs 2015 och beskriver sin bästa rekryteringsupplevelse.

We kick off Season 2 of The Greater Good with a conversation about affordable housing and community economic development. We start by defining both of these terms and then delve into their history in the U.S., the current housing shortage, proposed law and policy changes, and the link to environmental sustainability. Our guests are Greg Payne of the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition and Avesta Housing; Professor Peter Pitegoff of the University of Maine School of Law; and Nina Ciffolillo, the Economic Justice Fellow for the Class of 2021 at the University of Maine School of Law.Greg Payne is the Director of the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition and a Development Officer at Avesta Housing. Greg has nearly two decades of experience in issues related to housing and homelessness, including work at the Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless and the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless. Greg joined Avesta Housing in 2007 as a Development Officer. In addition to his responsibilities for managing all aspects of multifamily rental projects from concept to completion, Greg serves as Director of the Maine Affordable Housing Coalition, a diverse association of more than 125 private and public sector organizations committed to ensuring that all Mainers are adequately and affordably housed. He is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Low Income Housing Coalition and serves on the Board of Genesis Community Loan Fund.Peter Pitegoff is Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law, where he was Dean from 2005 to 2015. He has taught, worked, and written extensively in the areas of community economic development, labor and industrial organization, corporation and nonprofit law, employee ownership, and legal ethics. Pitegoff served for ten years on the board of directors of Coastal Enterprises, Inc., a national leader in community development finance. Prior to his academic career, he was legal counsel for the ICA Group, a Boston firm that assists worker-owned enterprises and related economic development initiatives nationwide.Nina Ciffolillo is a second year law student at the University of Maine School of Law. She graduated from McGill University with a degree in English and Environment and moved to Maine in 2016, where she worked for two seasons on a vegetable farm. She began at Maine Law in 2018 and is the Economic Justice Fellow for the Class of 2021. Last summer, in connection with her fellowship, she worked in affordable housing development and policy at Avesta Housing. She plans to use her law degree to combat economic and environmental injustice.

Charles (Chuck) Turner has been a community organizer and civil rights activist in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1966.He graduated from Harvard University in 1963 with a B.A. in government. After a year spent in Washington, D.C. reporting for The Washington Afro-American Newspaper, he moved to Hartford where he joined the influential civil rights group, the Northern Student Movement.Turner has championed and been actively involved with cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises. In the 1980s he was a leader with the Industrial Cooperative Association (now the ICA Group), for which he provided training on worker-ownership issues.He delivered this speech at the 27th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures in October 2007.If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org/order-pamphlets to purchase pamphlets of published works and transcripts.The Schumacher Center's applied work seeks to implement the principles described by these speakers within the context of the Berkshire hills of Massachusetts. Our work, both educational and applied, is supported by listeners like you. You can strengthen our mission by making a donation at centerforneweconomics.org/donate, or call us at (413) 528-1737 to make an appointment to visit our research library and office at 140 Jug End Road, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.