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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

Equipment purchase loan

Loan to purchase injection foam equipment, opening inventory, Vacuum Set, and Mold Remediation Equipment which will increase revenue by 138K and net income of 51K allowing Sustainergy to raise wages, provide healthcare, and access two new markets that customers are requesting.

Cincinnati, United States
March 9, 2018
US $32,500.00

Our Harvest

Worker-owner buy-in #2

Financing worker's membership share to help cooperative's cash flow

Cincinnati, United States
October 26, 2018
US $2,136.00

Our Harvest

Refinancing and Expansion

Refinancing that allows worker and community owned food hub and farm co-op in Cincinnati to continue past 8 years and expand in the future.

Cincinnati, United States
December 19, 2019
US $130,000.00

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
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