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In this report, we explore each of the 7 Cooperative Principles in depth—covering their definitions, origins, practical implementation across sectors worldwide, benefits for stakeholders, and the governance tools and best practices that support them.

Beanchain Coffee is a worker-directed coffee shop and incubator for democratic business practices, located in Mesa, Arizona. It is embracing worker cooperative principles and attempting to build a model that can serve as a bridge for other companies to use to move towards worker ownership and worker cooperative models. With the larger goal of building a Cooperative Network that can allow for scaling while ensuring local worker ownership.