BCCO provides organizing support for worker-owned cooperatives started by low income people — primarily immigrants, people of color, and those with barriers to employment. Funds will support our work by covering the costs of staff time spent serving these co-ops and helping them survive the current crisis.

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DAYUM is a youth run organization based in Detroit, MI. We are made up of primarily poor and working class youth, majority youth of color and queer youth. Our membership historically provides direct action and community organizing support to other youth who are facing injustices or fighting for policy changes in their community. Funds will expand DAYUM’s care kit project, assisting youth in paying grocery bills if they are experiencing food insecurity, provide stipends to youth and adult allies who are facilitating and coordinating care kit drop-offs, and continue to provide quality mental health support to metro Detroit youth.

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Editorial Casa Cuna is an independent artistic project, based in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. This project is conceived as an alternative method for emerging artists that are womxn, poor, black and / or from LGBTTQIAP+ communities to create income with their art. Funds will help establish Editorial Casa Cuna’s main office and workshop space through the purchase of construction materials to begin the second phase of their next project, TRANScomunidá.

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El Departamento de la Comida is a collectively run alternative agency for small farmers in Puerto Rico. Based in the small rural agricultural community in Caguas, El Departamento focuses on supporting agroecological practices, queer community, and regenerative food systems that decolonize our land, shift from agro-industry to agro-culture through a tailor-made food hub. With the funds, El Departamento will be able to keep their new space and pay the rent on time, as well as provide their four team members with a $900 stipend during this crisis.

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Escuela Itinerante Celestina Cordero is a small collective based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that offers free training and popular education on anti-racism, transformative economies, and transfeminist principles. They create safe, healing spaces that are intergenerational and offer childcare. With the funds, Escuela Itinerante will be able to launch online popular education workshops and provide stipends for their team.

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Food for the Spirit is an organization dedicated to racial healing towards ecological justice and equitable food systems. Using creative facilitation, they craft spaces for people to learn from each other and step into leadership roles honoring their unique talents, perspectives, and abilities. Funds will allow Food for the Spirit to bring materials for building garden beds to 15 - 50 more Buffalo residents.

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Pecan Milk Cooperative is a non-incubated 100% working class, LGBTQIAP and Black-owned cooperative which manages every aspect of the pecan milk manufacturing business. Their goal is to create dignified income for folks in their Southern communities. Funds will support the survival of the cooperative during this prolonged crisis.

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As an urban farm in St. Louis, Missouri, PHI Global teaches various groups in low income areas how to grow food through sustainable gardening practices. They also supply nutritious and fresh food to this particular population that needs it more because of the scarcity in the area. Funds will support the purchase of 30 horse power tractor with attachments, seeds, labor, irrigation, greenhouse supplies, and plastic mulch to expand their growing capacity in response to the growing need caused by the crisis.

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Repaired Nations creates redress for historic trends of colonization and oppression through cooperative training and development for collective ownership in Oakland, California. Initially focused on building wealth in Black communities by giving youth the tools needed to remain rooted: access to land and access to capital; they also host bookclubs, workshops, and trainings to educate and inspire communities to engage in cooperative effort - all while giving grounded, practical skills for collective ownership. Funds will support the intended purchase of two properties in Oakland which will bring 15K square feet of commercial space and 5+ residential units into their cooperative network.

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The Sol2Soul Freedom Project is a community based Arts & Agricultural Cooperative in Puerto Rico, doing liberation work rooted in long-term agricultural economic sustainability, land reclamation, and arts activism. This project includes working with three local schools to develop a youth food sovereignty curriculum, developing an agricultural production site, and community land trust planning. Funds will support local farmers providing produce and plant medicine in under resourced communities on the west side of the island.

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Solidarity Economy St. Louis is a network of groups and individuals striving to build and grow a solidarity economy that embodies the values of justice, sustainability, self-determination, and cooperation. Funds will help pay local artists and entrepreneurs in the network to offer their art or products into care packages along with food and other necessities distributed by STL Mutual Aid to those families requesting support.

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The mission of the Southeast Center for Cooperative Development is to increase economic opportunities and benefits by creating and strengthening cooperative businesses and networks that grow an equitable economy. They give priority to developing the power and capacity of low-income, minority individuals, and underserved areas of Metro Nashville and beyond. Funds would help SEC4CD seed their Emergency Fund and give the center an opportunity to raise matching or additional funds to support small businesses owned by or employing people of color which are financially impacted by the latest economic downturn through COVID-19 and the recent severe weather events.

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Tightshift Laboring Cooperative is a worker-owned laboring business and DC’s first worker-owned cooperative business founded by returning citizens. Funds will be used for the development of Stellar Roots, a farm community in Virginia, where a collective of Black working class folks are living, fixing up infrastructure, holding learning workshops, and growing their own food and medicines. The collective and those who are housed there are predominantly Black women and girls.

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Worcester Roots is a collective of youth and adult organizers on a mission to create opportunities for economic, social and environmental justice. We send these roots of opportunity into our communities, sprouting up co-operatively run and green projects and initiatives that build toward our vision of neighborhoods that are safe for living, working and playing. Funds would help seed resourcing of three people of color-led cooperatives who were incubated through Worceter Roots Cooperative Academy:Global Village Farms, WooRidesand Black Seed Farmers Market.

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