The following testimony was offered by one of PACA’s Co-op Developers, Jeanette Cuevas, during Philadelphia City Council’s hearing earlier today examining the use and impact of the stimulus dollars allocated for Philadelphia under President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act. Good … Continue reading →
For nearly a decade, PACA has contributed to the co-op movement locally in the Philadelphia area as well as nationally. I’ve been involved since just about PACA’s founding, having joined the steering committee in November 2012, serving on the inaugural … Continue reading →
The interest in cooperative, equitable economies is growing… and our team is growing along with it! We are hiring another Co-op Developer. Is it you? Co-op Developer Position SummaryThe Co-op Developer’s main purpose is to support PACA’s prioritized communities (i.e., … Continue reading →
What have we been up to this year? In addition to surviving a pandemic and resisting the deep erosion of democratic structures in this country (no small feat), we’ve continued our work in growing the cooperative economy. Here are some … Continue reading →
Emma Freedman, a project associate at The Food Trust, has been working with corner store owners—or bodegueros—in Camden, New Jersey since mid-2019. It’s a close community, in some ways; store owners run into one another at local warehouses when stocking … Continue reading →
Bonfire Media Collective is a worker-owned cooperative video production company telling human stories that catalyze social change. Many of the founders came together as collaborators on community media productions with Media Mobilizing Project (now Movement Alliance Project), an organization rooted … Continue reading →
At this year’s annual meeting—which took place virtually, via Zoom—we played with one of staff’s new favorite tools and made a cooperative jamboard. Folks from existing and start-up co-ops shared what their enterprises are up to and how they’ve adapted … Continue reading →
PACA asked Marqui and Toni Rose from Birth Brown Co-op (BBC) to share their story, what the co-op is up to these days, and how things have shifted in the pandemic. PACA: Who is Birth Brown Co-op? BBC: Birth Brown … Continue reading →