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Updates

  • On February 16th, Home Green Home San Francisco -WAGES' newest cooperative launched in 2009 in partnership with Seventh Generation -celebrated 2 years in business providing high-quality, natural home cleaning service to its clients in the San Francisco area. We at WAGES hope you will join us in wishing Home Green Home SF a very happy 2nd anniversary! Become a client today and visit homegreenhomesf.com for a free estimate or to learn about the number of cleaning options available for your home or small business.

 

  • The Eco-Friendly Cleaning Co-op Network, powered by WAGES, celebrates its official launch on July 18, 2009. By combining forces, the member cooperatives and WAGES bring new tools to the fight against recession and poverty – the strength of unity, mutual support, and economies of scale. Check back soon for pictures of our launch celebration. 

 

  • WAGES is thrilled to announce the opening of our new San Francisco cooperative! Home Green Home Natural Cleaning, a worker-owned cooperative in partnership with WAGES and Seventh Generation.

 

 

 Awards

WAGES and affiliated co-ops have received 25 awards in the last 10 years!

 

WAGES in the News

Spanish-language KDTV, Univision 14 News, featured WAGES and two of its co-ops -- Natural Home Cleaning and Home Green Home -- in a two-part story that explored the model of worker-owner, green cleaning cooperatives and the way WAGES' programs have improved the economic security for the women involved, their families, and their communities.
 
Natural Home Cleaning general manager Deb Goldberg, along with NHC co-op members, were featured speakers at a recent ceremony for Opportunity Fund. The event showcased small business success stories that have been made possible with the help of Opportunity Fund and its microfinance programs.
 
 
WAGES' Executive Director, Hilary Abell, joins fellow nonprofit leader Cynthia Chavez, Executive Director for LeaderSpring, in a conversation with Comcast's Newsmakers program, a monthly newscast that features community, nonprofit, and education leaders.
 
 
In a recent HubPages article, WAGES is named as one of the top local Bay area nonprofits achieving significant impact in building economic empowerment for women and eliminating poverty.
 
 
Nearly 200 WAGES supporters joined WAGES' co-op members, board, and staff for a remarkable celebration on October 27, 2010, honoring 15 years of success in creating healthy, dignified jobs for low-income women. Check out pictures of the evening's events here.
 
Practically Green featured WAGES' Ivette Melendez as a “Green Cleaning Authority” in a post this week on their blog, which offers people looking to go green concrete changes and take action to make their homes environmentally friendly.
 
 
WAGES is featured in an SF Public Press article citing the worker-owned co-op movement as a source of employment for low-wage workers during a time of economic despair.
 
 
Not only is WAGES generating more green jobs for low-income Latinas, but also it is giving the workers a chance to have “green ownership” over their work. Read more about how the co-op Members sustain their business in the June 2010 report “Growing a Green Economy for All: From Green Jobs to Green Ownership” compiled by The Democracy Collaborative.
 
 
Executive Director Hilary joins National Worker-Owned Cooperative Conference keynote speaker Jim Hightower and members of other bay-area co-ops on KALW’s Your Call program on the topic of how worker-owned cooperatives are making a difference. Listen to the radio show online or via podcast at the Your Call blog.
 
WAGES is a beneficiary of the newly-launched Remit4Change project, which provides a fair-priced alternative transaction service for immigrants send to their home communities and leverages a portion of the service’s earnings to invest in select poverty-fighting organizations.
 
WAGES Executive Director, Hilary Abell, is selected as the sole Innovator in Residence for the Corporation for Enterprise Development. Click here to learn more.
 
WAGES is featured in a Huffington Post article on the value of housework in family stability and the national economy.
 
Sheila Hollender of Seventh Generation blogs about her visit with WAGES and the co-ops.
 
 
WAGES' green cleaning techniques are featured in "Spring Clean My Kitchen" in "Everyday with Rachel Ray".
 
triplepundit.com blogger Amie Vaccaro says, "I’m intrigued by WAGES because it is one of very few models I’ve encountered that truly meets the people-planet-profit trifecta of a triple bottom line," calling us a "small but mighty" non-profit incubator of green businesses.
 
Green For All honors Women’s History Month, with a blog entitled “Women in the Green Economy" which features Evelin Palacios, a founding member of Home Green Home, LLC in San Francisco. Read more here.
 
An article entitled "Worker Owned Cooperatives" provides some history to the cooperative movement. Michelle Matos, WAGES' cooperative development trainer is featured. Click here to read more.
 
WAGES shares innovative strategies at the World Affairs 2010 event. Click here to view a quick video clip.
 
 
WAGES & Executive Director, Hilary Abell, are featured in a new book titled "Hot, Rich, & Green" by author Rebecca Harrell Tickell in a book about women and eco-friendly businesses!
 
The Greening of America: A New Deal for Everyone?, National Radio Project, 06/24/09
MomGoGreen Blog, February 2009

The New Worker-Owned Cooperatives, Cooperative Business Journal May/June 2009

Green Jobs for Whom?, In These Times February 2009

Create Your Own Workplace, YES Magazine, Fall 2008

Merging Green Cleaning and Social Equity, U.S. Green Building Council e-Newsletter, June 2008

Arthur Jackson Diversity in Small Business: WAGES, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 7-13 2008

Healthy Job, Healthy Body, Breast Cancer Action Newsletter, April/May 2008
 
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