The Cleveland Model: How the Evergreen Cooperatives Build Community Wealth
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2014
- Find out how anchor institutions like hospitals and universities can help worker cooperatives create green jobs in the neighborhoods that need them most. Learn more about the Cleveland Model at Community-Wealth.org: community-wealth.org/cleveland
Flash forward 5 years: all 3 Evergreen Cooperatives are breaking even and increasing employment, and the model has spread to Preston U.K. which was recently named the Most Improved City in England. The British Labour Party credits the Cleveland Model for inspiring major parts of its platform. Pretty nifty.
Place based, community centric makes sense, wealth building makes it possible
How did Evergreen start, as one cooperative at time, or many at one time as a network of co-op?
+James Chuaycham the plan was always for a network, but in practice it rolled out one coop at a time.
Cleveland Model Adopted for "Affordable Housing Project" For Fairfax VA Urban Crucible "Twin" . Affordable Housing Project + Community Garden Greenhouse Adopation Demo coming soon. Conversation OK ?
Venture Philanthropy For Community Wealth Building Fairfax County VA Urban Crucible & KEPPS Twin www.slideshare.net/icptwin45/venture-philanthropy-for-community-wealth-building-fairfax-county-va-urban-crucible-kepps-twin
real socialism...
Indeed
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I'm from Cleveland, this is a lie.
What part of it? Please explain.
Millions go into improving conditions in Cleveland's worst neighborhoods every year, have for decades. Illiteracy, food deserts, and poor job opportunities are still the norm despite this. Philanthropy has always been an industry, a network of money and public image laundering first and foremost, speaking as someone with 20 years experience in NGO work in the area.
@@taliesinhaugh6679 What you've stated is not PROOF, it's your personal opinion/experience/anecdote. To engage in productive convo, everyone must learn the difference between facts & opinions!
@@alexds8452 Discrediting my life's work and my master's degree in nonprofit management is your opinion.
I was trying to not come across as arrogant or inaccessible, but apparently you aren't hearing me. Read this book outlining the systemic problems inherent to philanthropy and food access in particular. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/330861/sweet-charity-by-janet-poppendieck/
For understanding why top-down initiatives like this don't address the structural problems affecting locals in my home town of Cleveland Ohio, I recommend the following books for the following topics:
Education: envs.ucsc.edu/internships/internship-readings/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf
Economics: www.communityeconomies.org/publications/books/take-back-economy-ethical-guide-transforming-our-communities
Community Development and "growth" as a concept: press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691150451/encountering-development
www.dukeupress.edu/pluriversal-politics
openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/87526
Now, after you've read these, you might ask why I brought in soruces that aren't about Cleveland in particular. Cleveland is not an island, and it didn't happen in a vacuum. Here are some sources for understanding how bad it is in my home city specifically though.
www.literacycooperative.org/literacy-statistics/
www.neoch.org/poverty-stats-2017
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002764292035003004?journalCode=absb
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2747/0272-3638.29.6.581
The rampant poverty portrayed in these peer-reviewed and indisputable texts is in spite of more than 100 million spent every year on philanthropy and development in the city by the Cleveland Foundation ALONE, before other philanthropies or federal and state support.
Happy reading.