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Caregiver-owned home care cooperatives provide better jobs for caregivers. But cooperatives don’t just strive to provide better jobs, they strive to change industry norms – providing quality jobs that pay life-sustaining wages, offering comprehensive benefits, and delivering state-of-the-art training and career advancement opportunities.
Joining together through collective voice and action, home care cooperatives can realize this vision. Working together, home care cooperatives can elevate home care.
Elevate strengthens, scales, and unites home care cooperatives to uplift caregivers through quality jobs rooted in worker-ownership.
Elevate envisions a thriving, worker-led care economy centered on respect for caregivers and the people they support, so every person can live, work, and age in their communities with dignity.
Democracy
Elevate engages members in shaping priorities, programs, and direction and is actively building toward becoming a formal member-owned and member-governed cooperative.
Transparency
Elevate fosters a culture of open communication with and between its members and shares all relevant information, decisions, and processes with its members.
Cooperation
Elevate facilitates a collaborative environment where its members work together toward their common goals, building collective capacity and strength and fostering a community of trust and mutual support.
Sustainability
Elevate is committed to financial, social and environmental sustainability in its own operations and the operations of its member cooperatives.
Justice
Elevate actively identifies and addresses systems of oppression in our work, challenging inequities, and partnering with members to build equitable policies, practices, and pathways for advancement.
Inclusion
Elevate works to remove barriers to inclusion and actively pursues participation among all members.
Innovation & Excellence
Elevate fosters and embraces a culture of continuous learning, improvement, adaptability to changing conditions, and excellence in the services we deliver to members, and support our members to achieve the same.
Elevate emerged from the Cooperative Development Foundation’s Home Care Cooperative Initiative, a decade-long effort that brought home care cooperatives and support organizations together to support co-op development, share best practices, conduct research, and build community. Elevate builds upon this foundation. Today, Elevate turns that shared knowledge into innovative, high-impact services tailored to the unique needs of home care cooperatives, pushing cooperation among cooperatives to the next level.
Elevate’s launch is being led by the ICA Group, a national 501c3 non-profit, which has played a critical role in the field since 1985. Once fully funded, Elevate will transition from being a project of the ICA Group to an independent secondary cooperative – a cooperative of cooperatives, owned and governed by its members – structurally ensuring that caregivers' needs and interests will always be front and center.
Join Elevate's growing membership and tap into a national network of services and support specifically for home care cooperatives and developers. Get in touch to learn more and explore how Elevate can help your co-op, start-up or development organization.
