SOUTHEAST CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT

Cause Area

  • Advocacy & Human Rights
  • Community
  • Education & Literacy
  • Employment

Location

6207 CENTENNIAL BLVDNASHVILLE, TN 37209 United States
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Mission Statement

It is our mission to increase economic opportunities and benefits by creating and strengthening cooperative businesses and networks that grow an equitable economy. We give priority to developing the power and capacity of low-income, minority, and/or underserved areas of the Metro Nashville and beyond. We do this work because we seek a world in which racial and community disparities in employment, wealth and income have been eliminated and we create an economy that sustains community and earth.

Description

The Southeast Center for Cooperative Development is a Tennessee-based 501c3 recognized non-profit organization working to create living-wage jobs through worker-ownership in all its forms. We provide technical assistance, education and collaboration to individuals and groups interested developing worker-owned cooperatives, as well as businesses converting to employee ownership. We provide these services with the ultimate goal of building a network of mutually supportive cooperatives in Tennessee and eventually throughout the Southeast. Our main commitment is to serving members of underserved and/or low-income communities and communities of color.

We offer:

  • Technical assistance and training
  • Support funding and financing of employee-owned cooperatives
  • Educate the public to promote community economic development starting in the Nashville area
  • Build a network of mutually supportive cooperatives
  • Give support for conversions to employee ownership as a succession plan
  • Expand public education and advocacy to increase economic opportunities through employee-ownership in the Southeast

Our purpose is to create employee-owned cooperative enterprises which can help create a Nashville for all by creating good jobs, building community wealth, and bringing democracy to the workplace. SEC4CD is providing education and technical assistance, micro-finance services to worker cooperatives, and researching matters related to worker cooperatives.

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