Worker-owned businesses have unique challenges. The BCI Network provides support to coops through trainings, funding, legal support, and connections to industry experts.
Strength in Community
The services included in your membership are designed to help your cooperative build sustainable structures, practices, and relationships that will benefit your team for years to come.
Get access to funds that support your cooperative with anything from consultant fees to professional development.
Technical Assistance Hours
Membership includes legal and coop development support, which include facilitation, consultation, and more.
Leadership Training
Take advantage of annual trainings with BCI and our national partners on financial literacy, navigating conflict, member retention, and more.
Loan Readiness Consultation
Get a free loan readiness consult, where we review your financials and assess where a loan investment could make a difference in scaling your business.
Network Support
Access service exchanges with other network members, and get connected with BCI’s referral network of professionals in communications, accounting, conflict mediation, admin, bookkeeping, and more.
Manage Your Benefits Online
BCI Network members have access to a member portal to keep track of and access the benefits BCI has to offer.
Our sliding scale model allows worker-owned businesses at various stages of development to partner together and support each other’s work while receiving support from BCI, and for low-income worker-owners to access sustainable administrative support.
At least half of BCI Network members are projects led by poor and working class people and/or people of color.
Are you part of a cooperative or collective in DC, Maryland, or Virginia? Interested in becoming a member of the BCI Network? Reach out to us to get more information.
We provide incubation from idea to launch for worker-owned cooperatives, collectives, and solidarity economy projects, including technical, administrative, and legal support.
We’re building a real alternative to traditional lending through the DC Solidarity Economy Loan Fund (DC SELF), which offers solidarity loans to local worker-owned businesses and community projects.
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