
Erica Boyce
Host: Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance
Sponsor: ALM
Shayla will assist the Center for Community Based Enterprise (C2BE) in the development of networks of cooperative, worker-owned business that can help individuals with low to moderate income, people of color, people within 200% of poverty and/ or returning citizens in Southeast Michigan achieve economic self-sufficiency.
The majority of people C2BE serves are people of color, people with incomes within 200% of poverty, and those citizens returning to the community from incarceration. Worker cooperatives, or businesses that are owned and controlled by workers themselves allow the members to overcome reliance on both public benefits and private employment and the barriers to employment faced by ex-offenders and employer discrimination. This project will provide community education, transactional lawyering, and business support to help citizens in Detroit achieve economic self-sufficiency by establishing worker cooperatives.
Shayla is the right person for the project because:
In the first six months, Shayla will:
Host: Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance
Sponsor: ALM
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