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The Kola Nut Collaborative / Kola Community Solutions LLC

Kola Community Solutions and Kola Nut Collaborative seek to foster and incubate solidarity economy practices within communities and organizations through anti-oppressive facilitation, healthy, generative group conflict processes, and designing adult education spaces to grow a cooperative culture.

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Upsidedown Consulting

We offer consulting services that help you unlock the power of worker ownership, including by transitioning businesses to employee ownership, supporting community groups to develop worker cooperatives that offer dignified jobs for their members and constituents, and advancing legislative initiatives

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Lawndale Christian Development Corporation

Our vision at LCDC Co-op is to harness the power of ordinary people, doing ordinary things, leading to the extraordinary transformation of individuals and communities. Through the expanded access and economic inclusivity cooperative structures offer, LCDC Co-op will formalize entrepreneurism.

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Housing Initiative Transactional Clinic

The Housing Initiative Transactional Clinic provides pro bono legal representation on complex real estate development projects to build affordable housing. Clients include nonprofit, community-based affordable housing developers and housing cooperatives.

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Urban Growers Collective

Urban Growers Collective is a Black- and women-led non-profit that aims to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color. Rooted in growing food, our mission is to cultivate nourishing environments through urban agriculture.

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Center for Urban Economic Development (CUED)

The Center for Urban Economic Development (CUED) at UIC conducts research that shapes the trajectories of local and regional economies, improves development outcomes, and expands economic opportunity.

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Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: United Workers Center

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos’ Southeast Cooperative Business Incubator (SCBI) provides training to develop successful worker cooperative businesses in Chicago's southeast side and surrounding suburban neighborhoods.

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Manufacturing Renaissance

Manufacturing Renaissance (MR)'s mission is to advance inclusive sustainable development anchored in manufacturing. MR operates across two program areas: 1) Career Pathway Services; 2) Manufacturing Ecosystem Services.

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ChiCommons LWCA – ChiCommons Consulting

ChiCommons Consulting is a worker-owned cooperative consultancy that helps local businesses, social movements, nonprofits, and other cooperatives flourish. We establish and improve our clients’ online presence, customer experience, team communications, and information technology (IT).

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Housing Initiative Transactional Clinic

The Housing Initiative Transactional Clinic provides pro bono legal representation on complex real estate development projects to build affordable housing. Clients include nonprofit, community-based affordable housing developers and housing cooperatives.

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Cutting Edge Counsel

Cutting Edge Counsel is a law firm focusing on businesses, cooperatives, and non-profits, at the intersection with the solidarity economy. We have significant national experience with capital-raising (securities law).

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Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: United Workers Center

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos’ Southeast Cooperative Business Incubator (SCBI) provides training to develop successful worker cooperative businesses in Chicago's southeast side and surrounding suburban neighborhoods.

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ChiCommons LWCA – ChiCommons Consulting

ChiCommons Consulting is a worker-owned cooperative consultancy that helps local businesses, social movements, nonprofits, and other cooperatives flourish. We establish and improve our clients’ online presence, customer experience, team communications, and information technology (IT).

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Co-op.Partners

Co-op.Partners | Food.Partners, an intersectional LGBTQ-run social impact organization, develops transformative strategies for diverse entities. Fighting against exploitative practices, we direct trauma-informed resources into underinvested communities, champion cultural heritage and create equity.

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North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO)

NASCO provides development technical assistance, management support, educational materials, and advocacy for group-equity and limited-equity co-ops and community land trusts.

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UIC Law – Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic (CESEC)

CESEC provides legal support to nonprofit organizations, cooperatives, community-based businesses in underserved neighborhoods for free. Student attorneys under the supervision of licensed clinical faculty, deliver transactional legal representation to persons with limited financial resources.

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Elizabeth L. Carter, Esq., LLC

Elizabeth L. Carter, Esq., LLC is a boutique law firm providing legal and business strategies to underrepresented redevelopers, real estate investment funds and real estate investment companies in need of business and other capital.

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Inaset Holding

Inaset Holdings Group is the lead development firm for the" Turning Red Lines Green" TRLG Initiative to bring generational wealth opportunities to disenfranchised neighborhoods affected by "Red lining" practices. Inaset Holdings Group is happy to help your business reach its goals.

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The Resurrection Project

We believe that social change starts at the community level. When individuals feel safe and secure, they are more likely to invest in their community, making it a better place for all. We support this development by providing services that stabilize and protect families.

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Illinois Worker Cooperative Alliance – Seed Commons

Seed Commons is a national network of locally rooted, non-extractive loan funds that brings the power of big finance under community control. Illinois Worker Cooperative Alliance is the peer member of Seed Commons in Chicago.

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Centro de Trabajadores Unidos: United Workers Center

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos’ Southeast Cooperative Business Incubator (SCBI) provides training to develop successful worker cooperative businesses in Chicago's southeast side and surrounding suburban neighborhoods.

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Community Desk Chicago

Community Desk Chicago is a community development intermediary leveraging relationships, aggregating risk tolerant capital, and working intentionally in underserved communities to shift power dynamics and create a path to advance economic prosperity through community wealth-building and small-scale

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Co-op.Partners

Co-op.Partners | Food.Partners, an intersectional LGBTQ-run social impact organization, develops transformative strategies for diverse entities. Fighting against exploitative practices, we direct trauma-informed resources into underinvested communities, champion cultural heritage and create equity.

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North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO)

NASCO provides development technical assistance, management support, educational materials, and advocacy for group-equity and limited-equity co-ops and community land trusts.

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Capital for Communities, LLC

Our mission is to build a more just and equitable financial system by helping communities access financial capital on their own terms. We do this by advising community leaders and organizations on developing capital programs, raising non-grant capital, and engaging with the financial system.

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Chicago Community Loan Fund

The mission of the Chicago Community Loan Fund is to provide flexible, affordable and responsible financing and technical assistance for community stabilization and development efforts and initiatives that benefit low- to moderate-income neighborhoods, families and individuals throughout Chicago.