THE WORKING WORLD

The Working World builds cooperative businesses in low-income communities, using a groundbreaking model that combines non-extractive finance with tailor-made business support... In spring 2013, we helped launch two worker-owned cooperatives in Far Rockaway, a New York neighborhood devastated by Hurricane Sandy. La Mies Bakery and Roca Mia Construction emerged from our three-month training program to provide meaningful sources of worker-ownership, as well as products and services that their community badly needs to recovery and flourish... Since 2004, The Working World has supported more than 800 projects with over 200 businesses-lending more than four million dollars and creating hundreds of jobs in the process.

Primary location: Brooklyn United States