October 23, 2015 - The TESA Collective

Starting Cooperatives While Behind Bars

Posted on October 23, 2015January 20, 2020 by TESA Collective

Shareable reports on how one major cooperative program spearheaded by prisoners in Puerto Rico is changing their lives both while they are incarcerated and once they are released. According to the National Institute of Justice, 76.6 percent of released prisoners are rearrested within fiveÂ years in the United States. Compare that with the recidivism rate of[…]

Play Co-opoly Over Some Employee Owned Beers

Posted on October 23, 2015October 23, 2015 by TESA Collective

The next time you play Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives over some beers with friends, think about picking up some New Belgium Brewing. ESOPs are cousins to co-ops! And below is a great video from PBS about the employee-owned difference at New Belgium. Earlier this year, one of our worker-owners was at a New Belgium[…]