Cooperatives are an essential mechanism for community wealth-building and local job creation. Through co-operative ownership of workplaces, retail businesses and value-adding infrastructure, communities can retain stakeholder control and keep wealth and employment opportunities local. Profits that once went to financial centres now go to co-operative members, who are more likely…
The cooperative business model is centred on the user owned, user controlled, and user benefited framework. It is one of the oldest business models, with the first dating back to the Rochdale pioneers of England in 1844. Today, cooperatives are defined as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to…
As a community cooperative, Yarn and Yield will be a regenerative intermediary. What does that mean? Let us start by breaking down the meaning of regenerative and intermediary. What does Regenerative Mean? This term refers to practices or systems that aim to be sustainable and actively contribute to restoring and…