Now Enrolling Members! Join an Authentic Handmade Marketplace
Artisans Cooperative is now accepting its first members! In this post, we’ll share all the details about membership.
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Our Bylaws & Board
In this post, we’re sharing our rules of engagement: our cooperative bylaws. In enacting the bylaws, we also had to appoint an interim board and… Read More »Our Bylaws & Board
Marketplace Development Plan
In this post, the Tech Team willl break down how we’re going to build the website on Shopify in phases before October launch.
Our Points & Tiers Policy
In this post, we’re presenting the details of our innovative Points & Tiers policy. The purpose of the Points & Tiers system is to incentivize… Read More »Our Points & Tiers Policy
The Risk of Making Things by Hand
In order to learn more about “the workmanship of risk” from our handmade policy, we spoke to a few artisans from the co-op about their… Read More »The Risk of Making Things by Hand
Artisans Profile: DragonTree.Emporium
From our Artisan Profile series: featuring Dragontree.Emporium, a family shop run by Elizabeth Drachenström, who creates a variety of crochet and knit items.
We’re Officially Incorporated!
We’re proud to announce that we officially registered as an Oregon Cooperative Corporation – and on May Day / International Workers Day!
Our Funding Plan
We’ve built the tools we need to develop a cooperatively-owned handmade marketplace. In this post, we’ll discuss how we’re going to pay for it all… Read More »Our Funding Plan
Financial Survey Results
In this post, we’re sharing the results of our “Financial Expectations Survey” for our handmade cooperative marketplace.
Print Our New Zine
Our grassroots team designed and produced a zine about Artisans Co-op. It goes over what the co-op is, some reasons why artisans might want to… Read More »Print Our New Zine