virtual incubator
cooperative & social enterprise
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We coach new co-op teams as they build business plans, grow their relationships, grow their capacity to collaborate, recruit members, raise capital, and operate their cooperatives. As needed, meetings can be scheduled with Co-op Dayton staff, and outside advisors, for general support of progress towards goals and to address these challenges to building and growing a business:
How to create value
How to be efficient
How to setup the business
How to run the business
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Cooperative Development Team
Lela Klein & Cherrelle Gardner
We provide hands on support to cooperative enterprise teams, offering both best practices from business and deep community knowledge, to design business models, incorporate, capitalize, and launch enterprises.