Evergreen Cooperative Laundry

• ILO – I came for a paycheck, but I stayed for impact (2022)
• Shelterforce – Despite a Rocky Start, Cleveland Model for Worker Co-ops Stands Test of Time (2021)

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2022

• ILO – I came for a paycheck, but I stayed for impact (2022)
• WKYC – Mission Possible: At employee-owned companies, it’s about more than just a paycheck (2022)
• Craftsmanship – A Co-Op’s Victory over COVID’s Economic Disruption (2022)

2021

• Shelterforce – Despite a Rocky Start, Cleveland Model for Worker Co-ops Stands Test of Time (2021)
• Fifty by Fifty – Evergreen Cooperatives Adapt and Grow (2021)
• Blue Heron – Charles Cowlin – Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (2021)

2020

• Great Game of Business – Case Study: Evergreen Cooperatives (2020)

2019

• Fifty by Fifty – Can Worker Cooperatives Transform the Commercial Laundry Business? (2019)
• Advisory Board – At Cleveland Clinic, laundry is a 18-million-pound problem. Here’s its innovative solution (2019)
• Independent – How Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperatives created jobs in some of the poorest neighbourhoods in the rust belt (2019)
• Reasons to be Cheerful – DIY: Cleveland Comes Back (2019)

2018

• Fast Company – This new fund will help retiring baby boomers turn their businesses into worker co-ops (2018)
• Next City – Turning Health Care into Community Wealth in Cleveland (2018)
• Reason – Can Laundry and Lettuce Save Cleveland? (2018)
• Democracy Collaborative – Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Expands to Second Plant, More than Tripling Its Workforce (2018)
• Fifty by Fifty – Number of Employees Set to Triple at Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (2018)
• Cleveland Foundation – Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Expands through Partnership with the Cleveland Clinic (2018)
• Ideastream – Inside Evergreen Cooperatives’ Unusual Business Model (2018)
• Huffpost – One Of America’s Poorest Cities Has A Radical Plan To Remake Itself (2018)

2017

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – In Cleveland, co-op model finds hope in employers rooted in the city (2017)

2016

• CNBC – A co-op that delivers on the American dream (2016)
• U.S. News – A Cleveland Success Story (2016)

2015

• P2P Foundation – The Evergreen cooperative model in Cleveland is no panacea and confronts multiple obstacles (2015)

2014

• OEOC – Evergreen Cooperative Laundry: A Virtual Tour (2014)

2012

• Campbell – Good Jobs in Bad Times: Evergreen Worker Coops in Ohio (2012)

2011

• Fast Company – How The Evergreen Cooperative Is Lifting Cleveland Residents Out Of Poverty (2011)

2010

• PBS – Industrial-sized Co-ops? (2010)
• The Nation – The Cleveland Model (2010)
• Shelterforce – Green Jobs with Roots (2010)
• Association for Linen Management – The Evolution of the Co-Op Laundry (2010)
• Cleveland Foundation – The Cleveland Model: The Evergreen Cooperatives at Age 1 (2010)

2009

• Yates – The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Begins Construction (2009)
• Cleveland.com  – Evergreen Cooperative Laundry aims to help struggling neighborhoods around Cleveland’s University Circle (2009)