This piece comes from Sherman Kreiner at the University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation. Kreiner is a longtime community economic development practitioner using worker ownership. His work at PACE in Philadelphia, including the O&O Supermarkets, Childspace and Home Care Associates, may be most familiar to our readers. His piece here explains the University of Winnipeg's development model based on four pillars of sustainability, and he makes the case that the anchor institution in an anchor strategy must provide significant leadership for the initiative to be most effective. In the process, he draws on his long experience
to give an overview of worker cooperative development efforts of the last 30 years and to suggest how we might use our aggregated wisdom to, as he says, capture the imagination of future social entrepreneurs.
Read the full article: "Capturing the Imagination of Future Social Entrepreneurs: A Robust University Based Anchor Institution-led Development Model" by Sherman Kreiner.