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Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative (CUCI) is a non-profit that partners with individuals and organizations to create worker-owned businesses that sustain families. CUCI emerged from the historic partnership between Mondragon, the world’s most successful network of worker-cooperatives, and the United Steelworkers in October of 2009. Here in Cincinnati, like so many other parts of this country, the need to create jobs is paramount. Families and neighborhoods across our region are struggling with high rates of long-term unemployment. For these individuals, solutions offered by public and private sectors are scarce and inadequate. These workers and the families and communities they support need and deserve not just a job, but a career path that provides a family sustaining wage, benefits, essential training, and effectively diminishes barriers to long-term employment. Learn about the recent initiatives that CUCI has been working on in the community! website: https://www.cincinnatiunioncoop.org/

Loans

Sustainergy

Expanded Line of Credit for Solar Jobs

Line of Credit for solar jobs

Cincinnati, United States
June 11, 2024
US $250,000.00

Shine Nurture Center Cooperative

Working Capital for Building expansion

Working Capiltal Loan for Shine

Cincinnati, United States
October 31, 2025
US $74,943.10

Sustainergy

Purchase of Warehouse

Purchase of Sustainergy's Building

Cincinnati, United States
January 30, 2025
US $700,000.00

Our Harvest

Our Harvest Greenhouse Business Acquisition Loan

Loan for existing worker owned business Our Harvest acquire a 60 year+ greenhouse business called Northgate Greenhouses

Cincinnati, United States
March 14, 2025
US $300,000.00

Old Growth Co-op

Old Growth: Truck and dump trailer loan (2026)

Secured Asset Loan of $45,000 for the purchase of a used truck and dump trailer to increase the co-op's efficiency

Cincinnati, United States
April 2, 2026
US $45,000.00
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