Bob's Red Mill goes employee owned via ESOP
#coop
https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2010/02/bobs_red_mill_natural_foods_ro.html?fbclid=IwAR2HWpbDPsuZHOXkQ_adNNdC3-tSktkQ5_1RwJNH58mt-1G7rBc7yCiypvA
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Will Murphy 🌹 (datatitian)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Feb-2020 03:49:05 CET Will Murphy 🌹 -
Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2020 04:18:44 CET Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 Ugh, my favorite #CreditUnion in #Vermont has just proposed a bylaws amendment that would give the board the power to modify both the bylaws and the charter without ratification via member referendum. Which would remove a major #DeMutualization firewall.
Hopefully the campaign to reject the proposal can be more of a call-in than an antagonistic messy governance fight. But, regardless, I'd really rather not need to spend energy on this... 😞
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2020 18:52:38 CET Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 Finally got over the hump of getting the Cooperative Development Institute set up on #OpenCollective as a fiscal host, so the #CooperativeVermont micro grant fund page is now live! Hopefully this can become a low-overhead, reproducable model for #coop movement organizing and resource building on a localized basis... :)
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2020 03:20:08 CET Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 Walked into the credit union today with the pile of checks from pledged members, and deposited $24,000 as the starting funds for the Vermont #RealEstateCoop. More is coming soon, and hopefully we'll collectively own our first property (a commercial condo that will hopefully be the future home of a start-up #coop) within a month or two...
its-happening.gif :blobaww: :TwinPines:
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Will Murphy 🌹 (datatitian)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2019 19:12:55 CET Will Murphy 🌹 @mattcropp I saw you tweeting at MeansTV the other day trying to ask about their #coop structure. Did they ever get back to you? I know one of their performers, and I'd be happy to help try to make the connection
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2019 23:34:47 CET Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 @GuerillaOntologist @Matt_Noyes
Bummer (to me).
This is one of the features or bugs of the ESOP model, depending on how you look at it. In the "broad-based employee ownership" space, I perceive there to be two (mostly implicit) ideologies: #SharedCapitalism (#ESOP) and #EconomicDemocracy (#Coop).
The former views the profitable sale of an EO company as a triumph, since the increased value of the firm is broadly shared. 1/
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2019 22:59:39 CET Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 #platfomcoop conference wrapping up with @ntnsndr laying out some BHAGs for building the #coop movement:
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2019 23:38:44 CET Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 Little #coop win of the day:
To secure the space for the #btv co-op brewery project that has been in the works for ~5 years, a group is forming a real estate co-op to buy the commercial condo that we'd like the co-op brewery to end up in.
We've set the minimum investment for the REC at $1k, and want the (future tenant) brewing co-op to be a members, but it's currently tight on cash, so we put the word out for new members & added equity from current members.
Raised the minimum $ needed today!
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2019 23:36:36 CET Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 Little #coop win of the day:
To secure the space for the #btv co-op brewery project that has been in the works for ~5 years, a group is forming a real estate co-op to buy the commercial condo that we'd like the co-op brewery to end up in.
We've set the minimum investment for the REC at $1k, and want the (future tenant) brewing co-op to be one of the members, but it's currently tight on cash, so we put the word out for new members and added equity current members.
Raised the $ needed today!
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2019 23:35:46 CET Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 Little #coop win of the day:
To secure the space for the #btv co-op brewery project that has been in the works for ~5 years, a group is are forming a real estate co-op to buy the commercial condo that we'd like the co-op brewery to end up in.
We've set the minimum investment for the REC at $1k, and want the (future tenant) brewing co-op to be one of the members, but it's currently tight on cash, so we put the word out for new members and added equity current members. Raised the $ needed today!
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2019 16:25:18 CEST Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 If you have freelance income and want to funnel your retirement savings in the #coop economy, #SELC is organizing a cohort of 100 folks to set up self-directed solo 401ks by the end of the year. Check this form for more details and to sign up to be part of the cohort! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyLlikwcBnWDiDv5vkMhJ1nJBGLrvo2XCtjV9zqg9ESIP1_w/viewform
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Will Murphy 🌹 (datatitian)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Oct-2019 01:52:39 CEST Will Murphy 🌹 "We will give workers an ownership stake in the companies they work for, break up corrupt corporate mergers and monopolies, and finally make corporations pay their fair share."
- Workers get 45% of seats on corporate boards
- Corporations must put 20% of shares into worker-controlled fund
- Raise corporate rate from 21% to 35%
- $500M 4 employee ownership bank (#coop)
- Sweeping antitrust planhttps://berniesanders.com/issues/corporate-accountability-and-democracy/
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2019 18:57:17 CEST Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 The Association of #Vermont #CreditUnions is devoting their podcast this #CoopMonth to highlighting other #coop sectors, and had me on for the first one to talk #WorkerCoops and #EmployeeOwnership: https://soundcloud.com/vtcreditunions/whats-an-employee-owned-co-op
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Sam Toland (samtoland)'s status on Monday, 07-Oct-2019 22:15:17 CEST Sam Toland @dajbelshaw TBH mainly news and comment on Irish / UK current affairs + then #coop and alt economics stuff.
Though not sure what extend I was getting anything meaningful out of it.
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2019 00:48:02 CEST Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 The Real Estate #Coop project I've been putting lots of headspace into over the past few months is now accepting investment pledges! The next two weeks will reveal how much of the interest local folks have expressed will translate to cash on the bulkhead.
Off to a good start, though, with $13,500 pledged thus-far. How much we can raise will determine whether we kick it off with one or two pilot projects...
#RealEstateCoop cc: @nev
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2019 04:30:42 CEST Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 A DIY #coop #bylaws development process:
1. Get bylaws from a co-op that seems to be running well of the appropriate legal form.
2. Do a close reading and leave comments about issues and proposed changes on the doc.
3. Circulate the doc to co-founders for their comments and responses.
4. Have a call and talk your way through the comments, integrating as you go.5. Founding group adopts bylaws.
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Will Murphy 🌹 (datatitian)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2019 16:54:52 CEST Will Murphy 🌹 @FreeScholar have you considered making a proposal on Loomio to use some of the #SocialCoop reserves to support this pecan milk #coop? One of the cooperative principles is helping other coops
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2019 16:21:16 CEST Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 Interesting article on religious and secular motivations in the #coop movement, with some interesting #CoopHistory tid-bits: https://www.thenews.coop/141134/sector/community/religious-faith-lack-driven-co-operative-culture/
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2019 17:13:16 CEST Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 Was talking to someone who works with the Agency of Transportation in #Vermont who expressed great interest in the idea of a SaaS #coop owned by transportation authorities that would produce and maintain a standardized bus tracking, carpool coordinating, etc., app. At the moment there's a huge patchwork of different software being used.
@ntnsndr & #platformcoop peeps, any knowledge of others thinking/working along these lines?
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Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 (mattcropp)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2019 18:30:47 CEST Matt Cropp 🌲🌲 Had a very interesting call with Blake Jones, the founder of #NamasteSolar, a successful and growing #WorkerCoop in #CO, about the Kachuwa Impact Fund he's organizing that is organized as a #coop and aims to invest in co-ops and "impact real estate" where the tenants are co-ops, b-corps, etc.
The most innovating piece of what he's doing is applying the logic of patronage to equity investment returns through the model of "dollar years." Bascially, the idea is that members get credit for... 1/