Seeding Equity - A New Community-Based Model of Public Investment in Worker

This knowledge, reinforced and deepened by Center of Southern California, and the United Taxi industry-specific trainings provided by the CBOs to the Workers of San Diego lead cooperative development cooperative members they recruit, is vital in ongoing projects in the carwash, child care, homecare, and taxicab skills-building, and in identifying and linking to niche industries. [...] The CBOs and the worker leaders of as well as the trust of workers in the industries in which the cooperatives actively engage with policymakers, the CBOs are supporting cooperative development. [...] Co-op Lab, in turn, provides follow-up cooperative education and In order to support the formation, incubation, and training to worker-owners, facilitates sharing of skills capacity-building of the cooperatives, as well as the and knowledge among the workers and CBOs, assists integral role played by the CBOs, the model partnership with cooperative marketing and outreach to prospective funded throu. [...] 22 The SEED Model Buttressing Cooperative Infrastructure: The Power of Shared Learning The SEED partners built a multi-tiered collaborative training and peer learning infrastructure, which supported the CBOs in serving as cooperative business developers, as well as the worker-owners of the cooperatives in learning how to manage and run their businesses: Trainings of worker-owners by the CBOs Each. [...] framework and the SEED training curriculum gave And to optimize the impact of SEED microgrants, the the drivers—who had no previous exposure to the drivers also collectively determined how best to utilize nuts and bolts of cooperative development—the SEED money.