We Own Our Cooperatives

America's cooperatives and credit unions hold the key to weathering the COVID crisis. Join our national network of cooperative organizers and help unlock hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency loans.

Solve big problems. We'll help.

Our communities are in crisis. We Own It is responding by creating paid opportunities to organize new mutual aid efforts today and a more cooperative economy for the long haul.

Join our fellowship of organizers and bootstrap a new community-supported organizing project. For organizers, earn a paid stipend while you learn and grow as a leader in your community. For donors, support new leadership development and enable your community to build economic power for $1/day.

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Support local community power-building

Support new leadership development and enable your community to build economic power for $1/day.

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What’s At Stake

Cooperatives have $3 trillion in assets, $650 billion a year in revenue, 2 million employees, and 130 million American member-owners and can create meaningful change. They are the keystone for a just transition to a new economy, energy democracy, and climate justice. Find out what's at stake.

"The We Own It Fellowship helped me understand what leadership really is: the ability to empower others through sharing my connection to my work."

Veri di Suvero

Executive Director, Alaska Public Interest Research Group and We Own It Fellow

"My experience during the fellowship with We Own It can be summed up with "Power Up", the collaborative effort of community building through action. I have gained relationships and learned tools that have expanded my leadership capacity to empower, uplift, and organize cooperatives through resiliency."

Brian Rowland

We Own It Fellow and Mayor of Prairie View, TX

"My biggest takeaway from the Fellowship is how public narrative is an exercise of leadership that motivates others to join you in action on behalf of a shared purpose. This is a tool I have used in my graduation speech from graduate school (received a standing ovation) and in my PhD application (I was accepted). A tool which I will continue to use in my studies and international development."

Enet Mukurazita

We Own It Fellow, Teaching Fellow, and Learning & Evaluation Team Lead

"Thanks to the We Own It fellowship, I now have an understanding of not only how to organize for change in my community, but I also have the confidence and skills to do it. The relationships that I’ve built, the coaching, and the resources that I have access to have made it possible for me to bring about change in central VA and to continue working towards a more resilient and active community. This experience has changed my perspective on what it means to be a part of a community and the role that we all can play in shaping where we live."

Daniel Mintz

We Own It Fellow, Teaching Fellow, and Campaigns Team Lead

"The fellowship program helped me find new abilities that I didn't know I had: making meetings productive and efficient, setting strategic campaign goals, and helping my team find their own abilities as leaders. More than that, it brought me into a community of ambitious people who are changing their communities and the world. Don't tell my graduate advisor, but in some ways, I've grown more this year than in my many years of grad school."

Alex Chambers

We Own It Fellow

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