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July: CFL’s Cooperative Development Program Brings BrightlyⓇ Cleaning Cooperative to Philadelphia

by Economic Well-being ProgramsNews and Events

For this month’s Stories from the Field we talked to Carlos Chacon, one of our Excluded Workers Fund (EWF) navigators.

As you might remember, a high demand for aid depleted New York’s initial EWF Fund quickly, and many immigrant workers and their families were once again left out of receiving much needed financial aid. The NYC COVID-19 Immigrant Emergency Relief Program was created to provide direct cash assistance to those immigrant New Yorkers hardest hit by the economic crisis of the pandemic.

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October: Launch of Brightly® Washington Heights!

by Economic Well-being ProgramsNews and Events

In October, Center for Family Life celebrated the launch of the fourth cooperative to join Brightly® Cooperatives, a social franchise of worker-owned enterprises improving working conditions and revolutionizing economic opportunity for worker-owners (most of whom are immigrant women in the cleaning industry from low-wealth communities). We are incredibly proud of the worker-owners with whom we partner and our Cooperative Development Program staff who have worked for 14 years to dismantle systemic oppression and develop worker cooperatives grounded in principles of democracy, equity, solidarity, and community self-determination.