Community Owned Businesses

Author : Norman Walzer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000391930

Get Book

Community Owned Businesses by Norman Walzer Pdf

This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts. Through eleven chapters, authors from various countries use case studies and analyse findings in ways which can be applied to new development initiatives, including rural grocery store retention in Kansas, socially responsible community cooperatives in Italy, preserving pubs and shops in England and Wales, serving residents with special needs in Canada, and financing basic goods and services for aging populations in Taiwan, plus other examples. The chapters explore practices and approaches used in various locations to address concerns about loss of access to essential services, making clear that this approach to financing is useful in different scenarios. The chapters provide key insights suggesting that these approaches will be even more prevalent in the future and will be of interest to students, scholars, and community-development practitioners around the world.

Author : John Makilya
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781480894730

Get Book

Sustainable Community-Owned Enterprises by John Makilya Pdf

Sustainable community-owned enterprises are owned by members of the community with no individual owning more than five percent of the enterprise. All members have equal voting rights—and everyone benefits. John Makilya, a native of Kenya who has implemented numerous sustainable community-owned enterprises, shares examples of successful initiatives in this book. He explains how they distributed benefits to members without depleting resources for future generations. He also highlights models that have not helped everyday people, such as Kenya’s sugar industry, which relies on small-scale producers. Even with government subsidies, the country continues to import most of its sugar from neighboring countries that rely on plantation-style models. Likewise, the beef cattle industry—as a result of mismanagement and other problems—has failed to live up to its promise. Join the author as he explores how selected projects in water, savings and credit, coffee, horticulture, and other sectors qualify as sustainable community-owned enterprises—and how they help everyday people, the world, and future generations.

Author : Michael Shuman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136782336

Get Book

Going Local by Michael Shuman Pdf

National drug chains squeeze local pharmacies out of business, while corporate downsizing ships jobs overseas. All across America, communities large and small are losing control of their economies to outside interests. Going Local shows how some cities and towns are fighting back. Refusing to be overcome by Wal-Marts and layoffs, they are taking over abandoned factories, switching to local produce and manufactured goods, and pushing banks to loan money to local citizens. Shuman details how dozens of communities are recapturing their own economies with these new strategies, investing not in outsiders but in locally owned businesses.

Author : Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119564812

Get Book

Strong Towns by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. Pdf

A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Exports, Tax Policy, and Special Problems
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Commercial credit
ISBN : PSU:000016123991

Get Book

Women-owned Businesses by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Exports, Tax Policy, and Special Problems Pdf

Author : Stacy Mitchell
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0807035017

Get Book

Big-Box Swindle by Stacy Mitchell Pdf

A Book Sense Pick and Annual Highlight With a New Afterword In less than two decades, large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illustrates how mega-retailers are fueling many of our most pressing problems, from the shrinking middle class to rising pollution and diminished civic engagement—and she shows how a growing number of communities and independent businesses are effectively fighting back. Mitchell traces the dramatic growth of mega-retailers—from big boxes like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Costco, and Staples to chains like Starbucks, Olive Garden, Blockbuster, and Old Navy—and the precipitous decline of independent businesses. Drawing on examples from virtually every state in the country, she unearths the extraordinary impact of these companies and the big-box mentality on everything from soaring gasoline consumption to rising poverty rates, failing family farms, and declining voting levels. Along the way, Mitchell exposes the shocking role government policy has played in the expansion of mega-retailers and builds a compelling case that communities composed of many small, locally owned businesses are healthier and more prosperous than those dominated by a few large chains. More than a critique, Big-Box Swindle provides an invigorating account of how some communities have successfully countered the spread of big boxes and rebuilt their local economies. Since 2000, more than two hundred big-box development projects have been halted by groups of ordinary citizens, and scores of towns and cities have adopted laws that favor small-scale, local business development and limit the proliferation of chains. From cutting-edge land-use policies to innovative cooperative small-business initiatives, Mitchell offers communities concrete strategies that can stave off mega-retailers and create a more prosperous and sustainable future.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Government Programs and Oversight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : PSU:000047041301

Get Book

Impact of Federal and Community-based Programs on Main Street America and Various Segments of the Small Business Community by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Government Programs and Oversight Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264581449

Get Book

OECD Rural Policy Reviews Linking Indigenous Communities with Regional Development in Canada by OECD Pdf

Canada’s Constitution Act (1982) recognises three Indigenous groups: Indians (now referred to as First Nations), Inuit, and Métis. Indigenous peoples make a vital contribution to the culture, heritage and economic development of Canada. Despite improvements in Indigenous well-being in recent decades, significant gaps remain with the non-Indigenous population. This study focuses on four priority issues to maximise the potential of Indigenous economies in Canada.

Author : Leigh Glover
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317163268

Get Book

Community-Owned Transport by Leigh Glover Pdf

City and state governments around the world are struggling to achieve environmentally sustainable transport. Economic, technological, city and transport planning and human behaviour solutions are often hampered by ineffective implementation. So attention is now turning to institutional, governmental and political barriers. Approaches to these implementation problems assume that transport ownership can only be public (owned by state entities) or private (corporate or personal). Another option – largely unexplored to date – is communal ownership of transport. Community-Owned Transport proposes and develops the notion that communal ownership has a historical basis and provides unique opportunities for providing personal mobility. It looks at the historical roots of modern urban transport’s failings as those of technological change and the associated governing of transport systems, particularly the role of public sector institutions. Community ownership is explored through the new ‘sharing economy’ developments – car sharing, ridesharing and bicycle share schemes – and older social innovations in ecovillages and communal living. Models and practices of community ownership of transport are provided and this study also discusses how community ownership might contribute to sustainable transport. Drawing widely on different disciplines and fields of scholarship, this book explores the conceptual and practical aspects of communal ownership of transport. It will be a valuable resource for those seeking innovative approaches to addressing the pressing problems of transport, including graduate and postgraduate students, as well as policymakers, practitioners and community groups.

Author : Brett Fairbairn,Nora Russell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774827911

Get Book

Co-operative Canada by Brett Fairbairn,Nora Russell Pdf

A shift in US bank policy. A demonstration in Greece. A tsunami in Japan. In recent times, these kinds of events have had profound effects on the economic well-being of Canadians. In such a heavily globalized environment, it may seem that only large corporations with access to transnational resources can operate successfully, but Co-operative Canada demonstrates that this is not the case. Despite economic pressures following the 2008 recession, co-operatives in Canada are thriving. In fact, there are approximately nine thousand co-ops across the nation with a combined membership of about 18 million members – more than half the population of Canada. Drawing on the results of a large research project that examined co-operatives in communities from coast to coast to coast, Co-operative Canada reveals how Canadians are using the co-operative model to collectively respond to the forces of globalization through local, community-owned enterprises. It does this through specific examples that vividly describe the pragmatic realities of the communities these co-ops serve.

Author : Thad Williamson,David Imbroscio,Gar Alperovitz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415947413

Get Book

Making a Place for Community by Thad Williamson,David Imbroscio,Gar Alperovitz Pdf

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271064260

Get Book

Collective Courage by Jessica Gordon Nembhard Pdf

In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century. Many of the players are well known in the history of the African American experience: Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Jo Baker, George Schuyler and the Young Negroes’ Co-operative League, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party. Adding the cooperative movement to Black history results in a retelling of the African American experience, with an increased understanding of African American collective economic agency and grassroots economic organizing. To tell the story, Gordon Nembhard uses a variety of newspapers, period magazines, and journals; co-ops’ articles of incorporation, minutes from annual meetings, newsletters, budgets, and income statements; and scholarly books, memoirs, and biographies. These sources reveal the achievements and challenges of Black co-ops, collective economic action, and social entrepreneurship. Gordon Nembhard finds that African Americans, as well as other people of color and low-income people, have benefitted greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Consumer protection
ISBN : UOM:39015015638417

Get Book

Clearinghouse Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. President's Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : UCAL:B3894376

Get Book

Minority Enterprise and Expanded Ownership: Blueprint for the 70's by United States. President's Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise Pdf

Author : Maggie Anderson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610390255

Get Book

Our Black Year by Maggie Anderson Pdf

Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighborhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial groups in every measure of success. One problem is that black consumers -- unlike consumers of other ethnicities -- choose not to support black-owned businesses. At the same time, most of the businesses in their communities are owned by outsiders. On January 1, 2009 the Andersons embarked on a year-long public pledge to "buy black." They thought that by taking a stand, the black community would be mobilized to exert its economic might. They thought that by exposing the issues, Americans of all races would see that economically empowering black neighborhoods benefits society as a whole. Instead, blacks refused to support their own, and others condemned their experiment. Drawing on economic research and social history as well as her personal story, Maggie Anderson shows why the black economy continues to suffer and issues a call to action to all of us to do our part to reverse this trend.