Home Care Worker Cooperatives in Rural Nebraska - Arapahoe, Nebraska, Leads the Way

13/06/2025 17 min

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On this episode of Nebraska FARMcast, we’re exploring how a simple phone call sparked a movement to build a new kind of business model in Nebraska — one centered on worker ownership and community care. Cindy Houlden, Cooperative Development Specialist with the Nebraska Cooperative Development Center at Nebraska, joins us to share the story behind the Republican River Valley Homecare Cooperative, a worker-owned business recently incorporated in Arapahoe, Nebraska.More: https://cap.unl.edu/news/introducing-republican-river-valley-home-care-cooperative/

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