North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) is an alliance of group-equity housing cooperatives helping to build a world where every community benefits from resident-controlled housing by educating and organizing youth and emerging leaders to create and cre for co-ops in the US and Canada. They have been educating and organizing an emerging generation of cooperators since ‘68!
We are the premier destination for fine wine, beer, spirits, and specialty foods in Baltimore, Maryland. Twenty years in the making and independently owned, we began as a small shop called Rotunda Wine & Spirits just a few blocks from our current home on Elm Avenue. An unwavering commitment to quality, selection, and customer service has allowed us to grow, serving the Hampden neighborhood and beyond.
The Wine Source team is dedicated to providing a comprehensive, curated selection and expert advice in every category while remaining a friendly, neighborhood spot. Whether you are seeking supplies for a delicious night at home, gems for special occasions, or everyday essentials, stop by and see us – we have you covered.
This is Anytime Taxi
Using highly trained and committed drivers who have an ownership stake in the cooperative and state-of-the-art dispatch, we aim to transform taxi service in Montgomery County to increase customer service, driver income, and accessibility for all.
MontCo Union Taxi Co-operative is a project of the Montgomery County Professional Drivers Union, an affiliate of the National Taxi Workers Alliance, AFL-CIO.
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.
Many of you have known Metta Integrative Wellness Center for years, perhaps since it’s opening in 2008. This is Metta Integrative Wellness Cooperative. It’s like Metta, reimagined.
When Metta’s founding owner decided it was time for her to step away, we, the therapists of Metta, needed a radical solution to keep the business alive. We wanted something different from the status quo – a place where we could all continue to shine as individuals, to be uniquely ourselves, and to support each other collaboratively. We dreamed up a solution in which we could stick together, work together, and be equal partners in deciding the future of the business.
We formed a cooperative. By forming a worker-owned cooperative (or “co-op”), we have joined an anti-capitalist labor movement with a long and rich history both nationally and abroad. Co-ops are business that exist to benefit their workers and the communities they serve.
Family owned Cajou Creamery is Baltimore’s first choice for plant based ice cream. They are a mission driven business that offers super food based, hand crafted from scratch, vegan ice cream.
BRED has been assisting Cajou with the process of opening their own shop!
Yeleen Beauty Makers Space in Washington DC that whose goal is to disrupt the beauty industry. Yeleen will do this by providing a production and manufacturing space that will enable beauty entrepreneurs, particularly women of color, to launch and grow their own businesses.
Yeleen Beauty Makers Space will be receiving a loan from BRED to help get the space up and running.