The Cooperators: Podcasting about the Cooperative Movement

The Cooperators: Podcasting about the Cooperative Movement episodes:

• 09.25.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 25 Michael Peck on Worker Co-ops

  by Robert McGarvey There are maybe 400 worker owned co-ops in the US today.  How many will there be 10 years from now? Ask Michael Peck, a founder of 1worker1vote, and he says there will be four million. That’s no typo.  He added, “I really...

  
• 09.23.2019

  The Cooperators Episode 26 Special Edition WOCCU's Mike Edwards on International Trends

  This podcast initially appeared the CU 2.0 Podcast series. It appears here as a for instance of a community coming together and creating a cooperative to meet local needs. Quick now, what country has the highest participation in credit unions? Say the US...

  
• 09.07.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Special Edition Maine Harvest Credit Union

  Update: Maine Harvest now officially a new credit union. Hard work makes miracles happen. This podcast initially appeared the CU 2.0 Podcast series. It appears here as a for instance of a community coming together and creating a cooperative to meet...

  
• 09.03.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 24 Dennis Johnson on Senior Housing Co-Ops

  by Robert McGarvey Co-op housing: a better way for seniors?  Where to house the ever expanding numbers of American seniors? Ask Dennis Johnson, president of the Senior Cooperative Foundation in Minnesota, where seniors control their housing destiny. There are many such co-ops in...

  
• 08.06.2019

  NASCO's Brel Hutton Okpalaeke on Students and Co-Ops

  Put Brel Hutton-Okpalaeke in your contacts if you are a college student searching for affordable housing. That’s because he is the director of development services at NASCO,  North American Students of Cooperation, where the primary focus is on cooperative housing, especially for students. Now is...

  
• 07.22.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 21 Nigel Forrest on Arizona's Cooperatives

  Go ahead, tell me you don’t think of Arizona when the conversation is about cooperatives. You would be right. The Grand Canyon State is not Wisconsin or Minnesota or Vermont. But your podcaster – me – lives in Arizona and so I asked Nigel...

  
• 07.03.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 22 Cathie Mahon Inclusiv on CDFIs

  Talk to Cathie Mahon, CEO of Inclusiv, and it’s a fast ride into what mission makes a credit union special, distinctive and in her mind the answer is clear: serving the underserved and usually that means economically disadvantaged. She has tantalizing insights...

  
• 06.25.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 20 Jake Schlachter We Own It

  By Robert McGarvey Corruption. Greed. Ignorance. Racism. Sexism.  Words you don’t usually hear spoken about cooperatives.  But brace yourself because in the next hour you will as The Cooperators Podcast talks with Jake Schlachter, founder and executive director of We Own...

  
• 06.18.2019

  The Cooperators Episode 19 Chris Mitchell on Rural Broadband and Co-Ops

  If you live in the sticks and want broadband, Chris Mitchell is the man to know. If you are a cooperator and want to hear a co-op success story, Chris Mitchell also is the man to know. That’s because – as director...

  
• 06.11.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 18 Christina Jennings Shared Capital

  Need a loan? You want to know Christina Jennings, Executive Director of Shared Capital, a Twin Cities based loan fund that is itself a cooperative and makes loans only to member cooperatives and there are around 250 of them. In the...

  
• 06.04.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 17 Cliff Rosenthal CDFIs

  by Robert McGarvey You want to know about community development financial institutions? Cliff Rosenthal is the man you want to talk to.  He literally wrote the book on CDFIs and also the longstanding credit union initiative to serve the unbanked: Democratizing Finance:...

  
• 05.28.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 16 Felipe Witchger Community Purchasing Alliance

  Bulk buying means lower costs. That’s a fact of life in the US and it also works to the detriment of smaller, community oriented institutions – think churches, charter schools, various non profits. They are too small to win those discounts...

  
• 05.21.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 15 C. E. Pugh on Grocery Success

  For many of us, our warmest, most intimate connection with a cooperative is our local grocer and at the National Co+Op Grocers the business of that co-operative is helping its 145 members, each a consumer facing co-op grocer, successfully compete...

  
• 05.14.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 14 Neal Gorenflo Shareable

  Call this podcast a deep dive into platform cooperatives and more broadly the sharing economy. That’s what Neal Gorenflo, executive director of Shareable in San Francisco, spends his days noodling on. This is a wide ranging, largely unstructured...

  
• 05.08.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 13 Nathan Schneider

  “Everything for Everyone” – that’s the title of Professor Nathan Schneider’s book that looks at many kinds of innovative co-ops and it’s a book that gave me optimism that there just may be a bold, bright next act for cooperatives...

  
• 04.30.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 12 David Gill Marquette Brewing, Drink Up

  by Robert McGarvey Mark your calendar. Late June is when Marquette Brewing in Michigan is slated to open, making it one of around 10 cooperative breweries in the US. That number isn’t big but just about all these co-ops have formed in recent years....

  
• 04.23.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 11 Mike Reuter on Credit Unions

  From the Ukraine to Ireland and Dominica, this podcast travels the globe with Mike Reuter, executive director of the Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions, as he shares stories of the challenges faced by credit unions and also the generous willingness...

  
• 04.18.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 10 Chuck Conner NCFC on Farmers and Cooperatives

  No country produces the agricultural bounty that the US does. We eat better, at lower costs, than anywhere else – and most of that food is produced through farmer owned cooperatives. That’s why you want to meet Chuck Conner,...

  
• 04.11.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 9 Stuart Reid Food Co-Op Initiative

  Want to control what you eat? Of course you do. Join a food co-op and become a member-owner. Across the country there are maybe 350 to 400 food co-ops and, said Stuart Reid, executive director of the Food Co-op...

  
• 04.03.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast 8 Alex Stone CooperationWorks!

  Alex Stone’s business is this: helping new cooperatives to start and helping existing ones to mature and do better. That’s the core mission of CooperationWorks! where she serves as executive director. How is she doing? The podcast opens with a simple...

  
• 03.29.2019

  Episode 7 Frank Shipper on Worker Ownership

  Worker owned businesses just are better. Don’t believe me. Believe Frank Shipper, an emeritus professor at Salisbury University in Maryland and editor of a book, Shared Entrepreneurship. Shipper is a scholar who has spent years studying worker owned businesses – both ESOPs and...

  
• 03.21.2019

  The Cooperators Episode 6 Melissa Hoover of DAWI on Worker Co-Ops

  The deep dive into Workers Cooperatives continues in the Cooperators Podcast.  Last week we talked with Esteban Kelly of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. This week it’s Melissa Hoover, executive director of Democracy at Work Institute, self described think and do...

  
• 03.14.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 5 Paul Bradley on Mobile Home Co-ops

  Owning a mobile home park is like owning a Waffle House where the customers are chained to the table. That quip is attributed to a leader in the mobile home industry.   It’s a thought Paul Bradley, president of ROC USA in New...

  
• 03.08.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 4 Esteban Kelly on Worker Cooperatives

  Presented by Robert McGarvey. Listen in here That sound you hear just may be a tidal wave of worker owned cooperatives. At least that’s what Esteban Kelly, executive director of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, is hoping for and working for and...

  
• 02.28.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 3 Daniel Smith, the Cooperative Network

  Listen to Daniel Smith talk about cooperatives in the states where his Cooperative Network operates – Wisconsin and Minnesota – and you might think this has to be the promised land. Just about every legislator knows about cooperatives. Most belong...

  
• 02.22.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast Episode 2 John McNamara of NWCDC on New Co-Ops

  After 26 years at the legendary Union Cab co-op in Madison WI, John McNamara headed west to pursue a new mission: helping new co-ops come to life and also helping existing co-ops to survive. What’s fascinating is how the Northwest Cooperative...

  
• 01.30.2019

  The Cooperators Podcast, Episode 1 – Roberta MacDonald Cabot

  Buckle up for a fast journey into the world of cooperatives with branding guru Robert MacDonald who will tell you why she is optimistic about a world where cooperatives are delivering local – relevant – solutions created by people for...

  
• 08.23.2018

  The CU2.0 Podcast – Episode 0 – the Kickoff Session

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