The Riverwest Cooperative Alliance (RCA) decided to devote most of our energy in 2016 toward the planning and implementation of Co-op Fest. Co-op Fest 2016 had a slow start in planning meetings in late 2015 and picked up momentum in
The Riverwest Cooperative Alliance, along with presenting sponsor Summit Credit Union, announces Co-op Fest 2016, scheduled for October 8, 2016. The festival, happening in locations throughout the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee, will feature workshops, panels and discussions on all aspects
Residents, workers, and people from all walks of like are coming together to form a new, basic-services, community organizing credit union that will serve the 53212 ZIP Code of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Our website is creditunion.rca.coop. We are seeking donations to
The Riverwest Investment Cooperative started in 2003 with the founding principle of community-directed investment. We’ve had up and downs since then—most notably the real estate market crash—but our goals remain the same: To preserve and create affordable housing in Riverwest
It has come time to end the experiment in cooperative economics known as People’s Books Cooperative. Over the past nine years, we showed that a cooperatively owned radical bookstore could exist within the harsh climate facing all independent bookstores. Surviving
Originally published September, 2014 by the Shepherd Express. Cities all over the U.S. are beginning to take the cooperative business structure seriously. Cooperatives are owned and controlled by the people who use them, and they can provide housing, jobs, education,
