Re: Worker cooperative in association with a non-profit

[John Logue <jlogue@kent.edu>]

Santiago --

Sounds like a very interesting project!

The odds are you want somebody relatively close and inexpensive.  There are 
public sector employee ownership programs in OH, NY (though I'm not sure 
how big it is today), WA, MI, VT, and VA; there are highly knowledgeable 
non-profits in CA, MA, IL, NC and PA.

Where are you?  We can provide referrals.

John Logue

At 08:54 PM 12/08/2001, you wrote:
>A local non-profit social service organization (about 20 employees) has 
>decided to consider reorganizing itself along the following lines:  the 
>non-profit (501(c)(3)) would continue to exist, but the employees would 
>become the owners of a worker cooperative which would contract with the 
>non-profit to perform the services (which consist generally of outreach 
>and advocacy).  The non-profit currently acts, along with its ongoing 
>functions,  as a sort of  "incubator" for new organizations:  for a 
>transitional period it acts as fiscal agent for the organization in 
>formation, and the employees of the new organization become employees of 
>the non-profit; and then eventually the new organization goes off on its 
>own.  A committee of which I am a member has been asked to come back with 
>a more detailed plan by the end of the year.  Can you give us any help, or 
>recommend anyone that might be able to do so?
>
>Santiago G. Leon
>Home phone (305)666-7361, fax (305) 661-2127
>Office phone (305) 577-4270, fax (305) 577-3502
>Office email sleon@answerrisk.com