The Cleveland Model: How the Evergreen Cooperatives Build Community Wealth
The Cleveland Model brings community economic development and the purchasing power of anchor institutions like hospitals and universities together into a single coordinated strategy to build democratized wealth and cooperative business ownership in low-income neighborhoods.
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