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A Fair Share: Jonathan Welle on cooperatives and economic democracy

Jonathan Welle is the co-founder and lead organizer of Cleveland Owns, a economic democracy incubator that equips grassroots groups to build wealth and power through collective ownership. There, he works to show, not tell, ways to organize the local economy more democratically through worker ownership, community ownership, and community decision-making. Over the past few years, after studying Sabbath economics, Jonathan has been learning to integrate his Christian faith and his economic democracy work. In April, he’ll be our featured webinar speaker, where he will share more of his experience developing co-ops. Brittany Wilmes, Faith and Money Network: What’s your story? How did you build toward the work that you do today? Jonathan Welle, Cleveland Owns: My story starts way back when I was 10 years old. My family […]

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