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Elevate Caregivers. Elevate Care.

Elevate Cooperative

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Worker-centered home care cooperatives change the balance of power, profit and rewards in home care. This change results in meaningful job quality differences for caregivers employed at home care cooperatives. But individual cooperatives can only do so much. Systemic change is needed to fundamentally change the quality of home care jobs for all caregivers employed in the industry, and systemic change requires systems approaches.

Why

“Caregivers are some of the least respected workers in our economy. The stigma needs to end.”

The path forward requires deep collaboration between home care cooperatives, organized around a common mission, and supported by business products and services that drive profitability and growth.

Elevate Cooperative – a network cooperative, made up of member home care cooperatives – will pool resources to deliver state-of-the-art products and services at below market rates to increase the profitability and performance of its members. As the profitability and market power of home care cooperatives increase, so will the adoption of the worker-ownership model. And because home care cooperatives are structured to invest in and reward workers, the result will be greater investment in caregivers and caregiving jobs.

“We believe that the future of home care is in cooperative home care businesses…It is going to be important to support home care co-ops to ensure growth, success and sustainability, and I see that role being played [by] the secondary co-op [Elevate Cooperative]…what we [the home care cooperative sector] are trying to achieve with the secondary co-op is really going to be transformational. And that’s what excites me: strengthening existing co-ops, growing the census and size of coops, and pushing for large-scale industry change. That is what needs to happen and needs to transpire for us to really realize a future where home care co-ops are the answer to what is really broken in this system.”

-Adria Powell, President & CEO, Cooperativev Home Care Associates

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Elevate Cooperative is being developed by the ICA Group with financial support from private foundations, government grants and individual donors. Special recognition is due to the Cooperative Development Foundation, a key strategic partner and financial supporter of this work. Scheduled to launch in 2022, Elevate Cooperative will be an independent cooperative entity, owned and governed by member cooperatives. 

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Support Elevated Home Care Jobs

We have an opportunity to shape the future of jobs in home care: and build a future where all home care workers can feel proud that they have a job worth owning. Your support can get us there. 

A gift to Elevate Cooperative is a gift to caregivers. If you believe that caregivers deserve recognition and respect, fair pay and benefits, and professional training and advancement opportunities, make a donation to Elevate Cooperative today. When you support Elevate, Elevate can invest in cooperatives, and cooperatives can invest in their workers. It’s that simple. 

Donations will support the thousands of hours of staff time it takes to build and launch a national secondary cooperative including cooperative focus groups, interviews and needs assessments, product and service research and development, financial modeling and cooperative infrastructure. Once launched, cooperatives that join Elevate Cooperative will make an equity investment and pay monthly dues and additional product and service fees. 

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