The Cooperatively Made Network

Arts and Entertainment 
I want to start a worker owned art, publishing and performing arts cooperative that performs or creates recordings, movies, novels, books, comic books and magazines together.
I want to provide live and online platforms for the artists to show, distribute or sell their art, recordings, books and performances.
I want to create a worker-artist owned fictional universe for the characters created and owned by independent artists. This universe could have shared fictional settings created by…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_land_trust

Tacoma urban Land trust.  -   https://www.tult.org/ 

https://www.tacomahousing.org/news/what-is-a-community-land-trust-and-could-one-help-with-tacomas-homelessness-crisis/

https://www.wliha.org/blog/community-land-trusts-unique-affordable-homeownership

I want to start a worker owned art, publishing and performing arts cooperative that performs or creates recordings, movies, novels, books, comic books and magazines together.
I want to provide live and online platforms for the artists to show, distribute or sell their art, recordings, books and performances. 
I want to create a worker-artist owned fictional universe for the characters created and owned by independent artists. This universe could have shared fictional settings created by the members of the…

Marvel Bay Cafe makes their own deli salads, cookies, brownies, biscotti and tarts. My wife and i have been there a dozen times. It has a nice athmosphere. 

 Uber and Lyft call themselves Ride Share Aps. Thise companies neither share rides or are aps. They are websites and corporations that nsert themselves into the process by owning the means of communication between users and providers of a service. 

And the communication between the above mentoned parties is the only service they offer. They don’t exist to provide service. They exist to profit off of the work done by others through the least expensive, for them, way.

Websites and aps are cheaper to make and…

It's Central Co-op Election Time!

Impact Central Co-op's future by voting for the newest members of our Board of Trustees and Nominating Committee! Voting for governance leadership is a crucial piece of what sets co-ops apart from many other business models, and we need your voice to move our Central Co-op into the future!

Each year, we elect one new Worker and one new Consumer to the Board (for three year terms), and one Worker and one Consumer to the Nom-Com (for one year terms). All Central Co-op…

Gallery Boom Shop

Who are you and how do you want to be identified? 
I am Christine Malek. She/they is fine.

Do you have a business name, stage name pen name, etc.? 
I'm the head curator of Gallery Boom.

Do you have a catchphrase that helps describe what you do? 
Gallery Boom Local Art & Gifts.
 
What inspires you to write, create and perform?
I want to encourage, support and promote South Sound artists and their art. I meet these lovely people and their fantastic art. They are very good at making it but after that…

1. Who are you and how do you want to be identified. IE. Do you have a business name, stage name pen name, preferred prefix or pronoun, etc.
2. Do you have a catchphrase that helps describe what you do?
3.  What inspires you to write, create and perform?
4. What cultural traditions do and draw from?
5. How long have you performing, creating and writing?
6. How can people buy your merchandise?
7. How can people support your efforts materially and financially?
8. How can people contact you if they want to hire you or license your…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_land_trust

Blue Steele Coffee I got a 12oz coffee for there for $2.45 plus 80¢ for almond milk.

They have a support the police theme, so they are honoring these four officers who were murdered at gunpoint at the Moonrise Cafe in Lakewood, WA.

I believe thst areas like South Tacoma that have lots of big yards and people who like to garden, we have the ability to grow food in our communities for our communiities.

I don’t think that any house can be self sufficient. But we can greatly reduce our carbon footprint by minimizing the distance betwen field and table.

I want to start a Tacoma/Pierce County based herb growing retail seller that buys from and sells within neighborhoods and connects businesses with local growers within their neighborhoods. 

We…

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Greg Spence Wolf

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Co-op Owners, Our Annual Election is Coming! 

Due to the unprecedented conditions we’ve all found ourselves in this year, our Annual Election was postponed this past Spring. We appreciate everyone’s patience, especially that of the candidates, during this delay! 

We will be holding our Annual Election this year from Monday, October 5 through Sunday, October 18. There will not be any in person gatherings or tabling this year, but we will have information about the candidates available online. We will also…

Annual General Meeting 2020 Join us on Zoom! It's that time of year again. Mark your calendars for Grit City Co-op's 3rd Annual General Meeting! We'll gather virtually on Tuesday, October 6th at 7pm. Join us to hear what our board members have been up to for the past year, and help us decide our next steps. Zoom link coming soon!

If you click the link at the bottom of the page, you will see our one song playlist. Here are the lyrics.

"Our Love" Lyrics and melody by Paulette Caroline (DeRooy) Wolf

He's a singer who dances

I'm a dancer who sings

When we sing and dance together

What rolls out really swings

We're singers who dance

We're dancers who sing

When we sing and dance together

What rolls out really swings

You're a singer who dances, 

I’m a dancer who sings, 

When we sing and dance together 

What rolls out…