In the News
Natural Home Cleaning general manager Deb Goldberg, along with NHC co-op members, were featured speakers at a recent ceremony for Opportunity Fund. The event showcased small business success stories that have been made possible with the help of Opportunity Fund and its microfinance programs.
WAGES' Executive Director, Hilary Abell, joins fellow nonprofit leader Cynthia Chavez, Executive Director for LeaderSpring, in a conversation with Comcast's Newsmakers program, a monthly newscast that features community, nonprofit, and education leaders.
In a recent HubPages article, WAGES is named as one of the top local Bay area nonprofits achieving significant impact in building economic empowerment for women and eliminating poverty.
Practically Green featured WAGES' Ivette Melendez as a “Green Cleaning Authority” in a post this week on their blog, which offers people looking to go green concrete changes and take action to make their homes environmentally friendly.
WAGES is featured in an SF Public Press article citing the worker-owned co-op movement as a source of employment for low-wage workers during a time of economic despair.
Not only is WAGES generating more green jobs for low-income Latinas, but also it is giving the workers a chance to have “green ownership” over their work. Read more about how the co-op Members sustain their business in the June 2010 report “Growing a Green Economy for All: From Green Jobs to Green Ownership” compiled by The Democracy Collaborative.
Sheila Hollender of Seventh Generation blogs about her visit with WAGES and the co-ops.
WAGES is featured in a Huffington Post article on the value of housework in family stability and the national economy.
Natural Home Cleaning is honored with the “Best of the Bay” award for housecleaning services.
Natural Home Cleaning and WAGES are honored at the Oakland Indie Awards, receiving the “Innovator Award” for 2010. Click here to see the winners and categories.
WAGES Executive Director, Hilary Abell, is selected as the sole Innovator in Residence for the Corporation for Enterprise Development. Click here to learn more.
Executive Director Hilary joins National Worker-Owned Cooperative Conference keynote speaker Jim Hightower and members of other bay-area co-ops on KALW’s Your Call program on the topic of how worker-owned cooperatives are making a difference. Listen to the radio show online or via podcast at the Your Call blog.
WAGES is a beneficiary of the newly-launched Remit4Change project, which provides a fair-priced alternative transaction service for immigrants send to their home communities and leverages a portion of the service’s earnings to invest in select poverty-fighting organizations.
WAGES shares innovative strategies at the World Affairs 2010 event. Click here to view a quick video clip.
WAGES & Executive Director, Hilary Abell, are featured in a new book titled "Hot, Rich, & Green" by author Rebecca Harrell Tickell in a book about women and eco-friendly businesses!
The Greening of America: A New Deal for Everyone?, National Radio Project, 06/24/09 home green home,
MomGoGreen Blog, February 2009
Bringing green home: One S.F. business, The Thin Green Line Blog, 04/14/09
The New Worker-Owned Cooperatives, Cooperative Business Journal May/June 2009
Green Jobs for Whom?, In These Times February 2009
Create Your Own Workplace, YES Magazine, Fall 2008
Merging Green Cleaning and Social Equity, U.S. Green Building Council e-Newsletter, June 2008
Arthur Jackson Diversity in Small Business: WAGES, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 7-13 2008
Healthy Job, Healthy Body, Breast Cancer Action Newsletter, April/May 2008
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Awards
WAGES and affiliated co-ops have received 25 awards in the last 10 years!
* 2010 “Best of the Bay” award for housecleaning services, Natural Home Cleaning
* Great Non-Profits Green Choice Awards 2009 Honorary Mention, WAGES
* Green Building Super Hero 2008, WAGES