We are buying and building some of Spokane’s most iconic businesses, and turning them over to employee ownership and control. We fundamentally believe everyone deserves economic freedom and self-determination, and we’re using worker-owned cooperatives to make it happen. All SWC workers are also owners, equitably sharing company profits. As the company grows and thrives, its worker-owners build meaningful wealth not accessible in traditional ownership structures. Democracy is built in at SWC, top to bottom: day-to-day decision-making is kept as close to immediately affected teams as possible, and our governing board of directors always has a super-majority of worker representation. SWC is a Limited Cooperative Association, which allows worker-owners to partner with investors. - Making it easier for workers to find community-focused investment - Allowing investors to make a meaningful, direct impact on their communities We use our funds to buy beloved community institutions and turn them over to employee control, giving workers autonomy, ownership and financial freedom. - Every acquired business adds strength, resiliency and value to SWC. - Each worker and investor own a piece of the whole thing, sustaining amazing jobs, mitigating risk, and keeping more wealth directly in our community. All employees of SWC businesses become worker–owners after a 90 day trial period. - SWC is governed by a board of directors elected from among the worker and investor members with there being twice as many worker-owner directors as there are investor-owner directors.