2024–25 · City-wide
Grant competition for worker-owned cooperatives
Hold a competition for low-income residents to win capital and technical help to start worker-owned cooperative businesses, promoting equitable entrepreneurship.
English title and summary written with AI from the resident's text.
The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
Start a competition among low-income residents for a capital and technical assistance grant to start a worker-owned cooperative business. Not everyone inherits wealth to enable business ownership- PB can empower more equitable entrepreneurship.
Who it helps and why
This competition would be eligible only to low-income residents, advancing social equity and economic justice.
Details
- Cycle
- 2024–25
- Submitted
- August 15, 2024
- Neighborhood
- City-wide
- Portal category
- Economy & Workers
- How it was submitted
- Individual submission
- Submission language
- English
Themes grouped with AI from resident idea text.
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