Bogdan is learning to cooperate and organize, putting them both into practice as he works to energize a solidarity economy as a new team member with Cleveland Owns.
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
We are thrilled to welcome Molly Bryden to the Cleveland Owns team this summer as a Freedom Fellow with Emerald Cities Collaborative.
Read MoreWe’re proud to support the powerful grassroots People's Budget Cleveland coalition in their fight for economic democracy.
Read MoreCleveland 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 MoreThe Energy Democracy Initiative at Cleveland Owns
Events
September Co-op Circle – Funding your Co-op with the Cleveland Co-op Fund
Join together at Cleveland’s first Co-op Circle, a new monthly event series for those working with or interested in cooperatives in Cleveland! This month’s kick-off session will have networking activities as well as a presentation from Cleveland Owns about the Cleveland Co-op Fund, our non-extractive loan fund for obtaining the money needed to start, grow, or maintain cooperative projects.
- Date: 9/27/2023 06:00 PM - 9/27/2023 08:00 PM
- Location: 2592 West 14th Street, Cleveland, OH, USA (Map)
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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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