We’re proud to support the powerful grassroots People's Budget Cleveland coalition in their fight for economic democracy.
Read MoreCleveland Owns
Power through collective ownership
About Us
We know that in racial capitalism, ownership matters, so we're organizing multiracial, grassroots cooperatives that enable member owners to build wealth and power. We're working towards a Cleveland owned by its residents.
What we do
Today we support five cornerstone cooperatives working in clean energy, food access, and digital access, and collective purchasing. We also work for deeper democracy in the public sector, where we co-lead PB CLE, a coalition of 50+ organizations calling on Cleveland City Council to enable residents to allocate $30 million in ARPA funds using participatory budgeting.
The common thread for all our work is deep democracy through collective ownership and, in the case of the PB CLE, collective stewardship of public money -- economic democracy.
Blog
Cleveland Owns and Cleveland Solar Cooperative kicked off May by attending RE-AMP Network’s Energy Democracy Summit here in Cleveland.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to welcome Craig Ickler to the Cleveland Owns team as the Energy Democracy Organizer!
Read MoreThe other week our ED, Jonathan, presented about Cleveland Owns' work incubating Cleveland Solar Cooperative, Ohio's first community-owned solar development company.
Read MoreCleveland Owns is proud to be a founding member of PB CLE, a grassroots campaign to bring a People’s Budget (PB), or participatory budgeting, to Cleveland. Here's the latest on the campaign
Read MoreThis spring, in partnership with our allies at Co-op Cincy and Co-op Dayton, we’re launching our first co-op incubator, a 15-week program for groups looking to launch worker-owned businesses.
Read MoreThe Energy Democracy Initiative at Cleveland Owns
Our launch party
Support
We're able to do this work because of people like you who believe in economic democracy. Thank you for being a supporter of Cleveland Owns!
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