Worker Co-ops

Blue Tin Productions is an apparel manufacturing workers co-operative run by immigrant, refugee, and working-class women of color.

Business Services Collective is a cooperative of providers of back-office support services to BIPOC firms in the construction industry.

Genesis Cleaning Cooperative is a cooperative business in the cleaning industry, committed to performing excellent cleaning services while providing dignified wages to their members and are based in the values of cooperation, collectivism, and prosperity.

HAZ Cooperative Studios provides independent artists of color with the space, community, education, and tools needed to hone their craft and produce their work.

In care of Black Women, through the Art Center Co-op, will provide arts education, professional development, and shared creative facilities to further support emerging and established artists and collectors, mission-driven corporate and non-profit organizations, and local residents.

Revolution Green is a small-scale manufacturing facility that operates as a worker-owned cooperative to provide manufacturing machine repair and maintenance, manufacture mounts for solar panels, and contract manufacturing (create custom-manufactured pieces according to customers design).

Street Vendors Association of Chicago operates Cocina Compartida de Trabajadores Cooperativistas, a shared cooperative kitchen for street vendors to make their food in a commercial kitchen space.

Urban Growers Collective is developing a finished Compost Marketing and Distribution Cooperative.