What is Ceremony Piecing?
Ceremony Piercing & Fine Jewelry
is a worker-owned, queer-owned cooperative
committed to offering safe piercing practices with the industry’s highest quality materials.
We’re dedicated to redefining our industry by
prioritizing ethical practices, continuing
education, community engagement, and the
health and safety of clients and staff alike.
A little about Common Ground:
At Common Ground, we believe that being a food service provider today means owning a much larger responsibility to the health and well-being of people and the world in which we live.
Through worker democracy, we are dedicated to promoting the well-being of our environment, our community, and our fellow workers – especially those who face further oppression on the basis of race, gender, ability, sexuality, or other marginalized status.
We also aim to strengthen solidarity and relationships with other organizing workers, established cooperatives, and our neighbors to further build a world where the needs of people are prioritized over the profits of business.
Our beverage, food, community events, and other projects are crafted to the best of our abilities with all of these objectives in mind.
A little about Awaken Wellness:
Our mission is to empower our community by helping individuals connect deeply with their own body’s capacity for healing. We do this by providing a range of transformative therapies, including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and therapeutic bodywork, all rooted in compassion, respect, and a holistic understanding of wellness.
EnviroCollab is a women-owned, community-based landscape architecture, urban planning, and social design cooperative focused on engagement, equity, and sustainability.
We are very proud of the work we did last year and would like to share it with you. Below is our 2024 impact report highlighting projects, collaborations, outreach and funding. As always, thanks for supporting BRED and our mission to help create a more equitable future for Baltimore City residents and business owners. Happy 2025!
If you have ever come to our events or seen an IG Reel, you’ve heard us mention Seed Commons several times. Seed Commons is the national network of non-extractive loan funds that BRED belongs to. If you want to learn more about Seed Commons, this video created during the All Network Gathering is perfect for you. We hosted all our peer funds here in Baltimore for three days of learning from and supporting each other. Enjoy!
Fresh Cup Magazine wrote an article about coffee cooperatives in Baltimore City and how the co-op ecosystem has grown over the last six years. It’s a good light read for these heavy times. Read here!
Picture this.
It’s Saturday morning. You’re drinking a cup of coffee, maybe eating a light breakfast, and learning all about cooperatives with curious minded people. Where are you? BRED’s 2025 Jumpstart taking place at Impact Hub!
Who is this event for? If you are co-op curious, a business owner that wants to sell to your employees, have a co-op and are interested in learning more about cooperative tools to implement in the day to day structure of running a co-op, this event is for you.
Join Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy for a fun-filled day of conversations and workshops about co-ops! Starting up, co-op basics, day-to-day decision making, business models, and so much more! We are ready to help you on your journey. March 8, 2025 10-4pm register here. Childcare available – apply here by March 1st.
Giving Tuesday is fast approaching and we’re hoping you support Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy! BRED was founded in 2015 to provide much-needed technical support and funding to support the cooperative economy here in Baltimore, and beyond. We know how important sustaining and growing a healthy business ecosystem is here in Baltimore City, and we know that cooperatives are a vital part of that health. We ask friends, supporters, and comrades to share this post and donate to our Donor Box today. We want to keep providing services and resources to Baltimore and you can help us do that.
Throughout the day we will be sharing and tagging stories of cooperatives in our network that we would also love your support. So check us out on Instagram , give us a follow and share these co-ops with your people!! Thanks for all your support!
We recently helped The Wine Source convert from a traditional business into a cooperative. We are so happy for this group of amazing workers and what they have accomplished! Please take a moment to read this Baltimore Fishbowl article to learn more about The Wine Source’s process and about us!
https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/from-red-emmas-to-the-wine-source-baltimore-a-hotbed-of-local-worker-cooperative-financing/