Vernon Oakes, General Partner in Everything.Coop Communications, LLC, a media company that promotes cooperative business models by providing education and resources specifically for under resourced Americans and their communities again joins the Green Business Podcast.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Vernon Oakes discuss the following:
- Please start by sharing what is a cooperative?
- What would you say that successful cooperatives and climate initiatives have in common?
- What type of Coops benefit the environment?
- Are there any green cooperatives that you’d like to bring attention to?
- How can we learn more about Cooperatives?
Vernon Oakes hosts the leading weekly national radio program for the U.S. cooperative community. He is General Partner in Everything.Coop Communications, LLC, a media company that promotes cooperative business models by providing education and resources specifically for under resourced Americans and their communities.
With the National Cooperative Bank support and personal investment, Mr. Oakes hosts National radio show, Everything Coop which has earned broad-based cooperative community accolades for nine years. In 2018, he received the prestigious “Spirit of Cooperation Award” from the National Cooperative Bank and “the Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Potomac Association of Housing Cooperatives. He is an ardent advocate for cooperatives and serves on several boards dedicated to advancing the interests of cooperative businesses and diverse American citizens.
Mr. Oakes is committed to helping people learn about cooperative business models helping diverse and inclusive American communities solve many of the housing, health care, sustenance, cost of living challenges, and distribution of wealth challenges laid even barer during the global pandemic. In that spirit, Vernon helped to mastermind the “USPS.Coop” 2020 campaign dedicated to building solidarity throughout the U.S. Cooperative Community for local USPS branches, especially in rural and underserved areas. He has worked with Downtown Crenshaw Rising to create a cooperative ecosystem in South Central Los Angeles, CA. And he has worked with the Black Belt Coalition of Human Rights Advocates which is a part of the UN Decade for People of African Decent where he co-chairs the Cooperative Committee.
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