Cooperative businesses grow ownership and equity, address market failure, have higher success rates than traditional businesses, stabilize communities, and raise co-owners’ median income.
CEOs make 354 times the average worker
The U.S. Leads the world in the gap between CEO’s and workers. Let’s change that!
Ratio between CEO and Worker
Over the past decade, Grace in Action Collectives:
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Trained 2,075 Youth in Southwest Detroit
Cooperative Members have mentored and trained thousands of neighborhood youth in marketable job skills.
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Created 52 worker-owned jobs
52 high-quality, worker-owned jobs have been created. Averaging between $20-$50 per hour in pay.
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Created 6 businesses in high growth industries
We’ve helped leaders develop cooperatives in telecommunications, screen printing and sesign, web development, cleaning services, childcare, and language justice.
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Installed 10 neighborhood hotspots
We’ve connected 50 homes with broadband WiFi and built the first fiber-to-home connections in Detroit.
Our goal by 2030
Less than 10% of Southwest Detroit residents work where they live. By 2030, we’ll bring 200 high-quality, cooperative-based jobs to Southwest, raising the percentage of people working where they live by 5%. This will have a direct impact on the Southwest Detroit economy by generating 10 million new dollars that will cycle through the neighborhood.
Join the movement and build with us.
If you would like to get involved by working with us, training with us, funding us, or becoming part of the movement for quality jobs in Southwest, please reach out. We would love to hear from you.
info@giacollectives.org
(313) 910-5997