It’s time to get together and celebrate the 10 businesses graduating from the Spring 2023 Start.coop accelerator and all the amazing things happening in the co-op world right now.

Join us Thursday, June 8th to hear from our graduates about the work they are doing at the forefront of the cooperative movement and across the economy:

As you’ll see below, each of these co-ops is founded by an entrepreneur over the age of 50 and they represent a wide range of industries from gig work to home care and everything in between:

🎨 The Artisans Cooperative is crafting a better handmade marketplace online: a co-op alternative to Etsy. Designed by and for crafters, it will be a trustworthy place to buy authentically handmade goods.

👩🏿‍🍼 BEE Collective is bold, and courageous, in designing an equitable and democratic birthing and early childhood coalition in SC that values and supports community wisdom and advances child wellbeing.

🌆 Boomers Collaborative are a group of senior citizens with a new & scalable model for an independent, more stable retirement. Less dependent on social services, we will share resources & space to co-live, co-create, & thrive.

🥡 GoLoCo Chicago will build a model that focuses on providing a low cost, quality customer service food delivery for and owned by local independent restaurants and drivers.

🥗 Goodness Gracious fights food apartheid by providing locally sourced, fresh produce and meats to residents in areas of low income and low access. Our products are sourced from socially disadvantaged farmers.

🍜 LooHoo's Cafe is a neighborhood Boba Tea and Instant Ramen café. We create jobs and business ownership opportunities for people with disabilities. We’re changing the world one slurp at a time.

👩🏽‍⚕️ Royal Home Care provides home care for seniors to assist them with things they may no longer be able to do such as cooking, cleaning, bathing, grocery shopping, laundry, driving to doctor appointments and companionship.

💰 The Tax Coop is a cooperative of independent financial service providers who ally, providing services beyond what solo-providers can without losing autonomy.

🐕 Trellis is an innovator in the veterinary field making access to pet medical care affordable and convenient with a telemedicine model. We created a quadruple-win business plan unique to our industry.

🏘️ Zero Energy Homes will build affordable, modular, net zero energy homes with 80-90% Maine materials. It will be governed by a quadruple bottom line: planet, people, product, profit.

We look forward to celebrating with you!

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