We’re building the future of media—together. 🎙️✨
Applications are now open for the Accelerator for Media Cooperatives Leadership Council!
We’re seeking 4 leaders to support and shape our 2026/2027 Accelerator for media cooperatives—co-creating curriculum, coaching founders, and strengthening the ecosystem.
🌀 Remote, part-time
💰 $5,000 stipend + travel
📅 10-month engagement
If you’ve built, supported, or believe in cooperative media, this is your moment to lead.
🗓 Applications close April 30
🔗 Apply Today: start.coop/leadershipcouncil
#Cooperatives #MediaJustice #Journalism #FutureOfWork #StartCoop #CoopEconomy #GoCoops
📣 We’re Hiring: Director of Shared Media Services
We are looking for a collaborative, visionary leader to guide the Start.coop x Defector Media Shared Media Services Project.
Please share this role with your network as we hope to find someone with an interest and/or experience in cooperatives, employee-friendly business models, and/or business support services.
🗓 Priority Deadline: April 10
🔗 Apply Today - link in bio
#GoCoops #SharedServices #SharedOwnership
📣 Calling all service providers!
@start_coop x @defectormedia are building a Shared Media Services hub to support independent, worker-owned media orgs.
💡Help newsrooms save time, cut costs, and focus on storytelling that matters.
✨ Legal, HR, finance, ops & more - this is your chance to plug in.
🗓️ Deadline: April 8 | 🔗 Link in bio
#MediaJustice #Coops #JournalismMatters #SharedEconomy #StartCoop #GoCoops
WisConnect LWCA is a worker-owned cooperative located in Chicago, IL empowering Black women, youth, and communities through the Wisdom Connection Initiative — rooted locally, reaching globally. 🌍💫
Their model sustains self-employed leaders and builds intergenerational wealth. 🔗 http://wisconnect.co
See them shine on TODAY! RSVP 🔗 in bio
#GoCoops #WomenLed #BlackWealth #BlackCoopsMatter
Under the North Star is a community-rooted healing space offering restorative yoga, sound healing, and movement practices centered in liberation and healing justice. ✨🧘🏾♀️
They nurture breath, rest, and solidarity across Louisville, Kentucky.
Join their waiting list at @_thenorthstaryoga and meet them TODAY!
🔗 RSVP link in bio
Twin Cities I.M.P.A.C.T Cooperative located in Saint Paul, Minnesota provides culturally rooted care for seniors and people with disabilities through meal delivery, homemaking, transportation, and more. 💙
They’re building dignity, independence, and inclusion — one neighbor at a time. 🔗
See their impact today at our Dec 5 Showcase!
🔗 RSVP link in bio
#GoCoops #BlackWealth #BlackCoopsMatter
The Local Farm Cooperative @thelocalfarmcoop is a Black and youth-led farm in Selma growing food, power, leadership, and community. 🌾✊🏾
Their mission: fresh food access, green space, youth development, and a healthier Selma rooted in land, wellness, and cooperation.
Join us today to celebrate their work!
🔗 RSVP link in the bio
#GoCoop #BlackWealth #BlackYouth
The Come Up Cooperative: Sweet Sol @sweetsolatl is building community-owned businesses with and for formerly incarcerated family in Atlanta. 💛
This multi-stakeholder cooperative is reshaping re-entry, creating ownership, and planting seeds of power and possibility.
See their story today at our Dec 5 Showcase!
🔗 RSVP link in bio
#GoCoop #BlackWealth #BlackCoopsMatter
Solfood @solfoodorg is transforming underused Oakland spaces into community-run food collaboratives that honor culture, spark connection, and grow BIPOC-owned businesses. 🍲🌱
Rooted in justice and local wealth building, Solfood is creating gathering places where neighbors thrive together.
Catch them today at our Dec 5 Graduation Showcase!
🔗 RSVP link in bio
#GoCoop #BlackWealth #BlackCoopsMatter
Chicago roots. Global vision.
Revolution Institute is advancing community wealth building for Black communities by seeding worker-owned cooperatives in growth sectors — centered in shared wealth, dignity, and self-determination.
📢 They aren’t just imagining change — they’re training, convening, and incubating cooperative ownership as a pathway to freedom.
Be part of the movement on December 5 at our Graduation Showcase — where RI will share what a cooperative future can look like for Chicago and beyond.
#WorkerOwnership #ChicagoInnovation #BlackWealth #CommunityPower #SharedWealth #BlackCommunityWealthAccelerator
🍎 Food access is power.
One Community Grocery Co-op is a Black-led, member-owned grocery initiative in South St. Pete building food sovereignty, economic resilience, and cooperative ownership — one cart at a time.
📌 Co-op Type: Member-Owned
They’re not just selling groceries…they’re building a local economy rooted in dignity, access, and shared power.
🗓️ Join us on December 5th as they showcase their model at the Black Community Wealth Accelerator Graduation Showcase!
🙌🏾 Support their work, become a member, and help grow this model nationwide.
🔗 RSVP link in bio!
#FoodAccess #FoodJustice #CooperativeOwnership #StPeteFL #CommunityResilience #BlackLedCoops #EconomicPower #GoCoop
Meet Hive Mind Community Investment Co-op @hivemindcic — a visionary collective organizing BIPOC and allied communities in Northeast GA to build community-controlled assets and take land off the speculative market.
📍 Athens, Georgia
📌 Co-op Type: Worker
Through five powerful pillars — food, security, power building, care, and capital — Hive Mind is cultivating a just transition away from extractive systems and toward cooperative self-determination.
💡 From community gardens and political education to emergency relief and permanently affordable housing — they’re redefining what community investment looks like.
🎓 Join us December 5th for Start.coop’s Black Community Wealth Accelerator Graduation Showcase to celebrate their journey and impact.
🔗 RSVP in bio!
#CooperativeEconomy #JustTransition #CommunityWealth #AthensGA #GoCoop #BIPOCLeadership #CoopsBuildPower #BlackCommunityWealthAccelerator
