From the Blog A Trip to Inclusiv’s 50th Conference Posted by Brooklyn Coop Team on June 6 2024 My name is Ariel Arteaga, and I am the Communications Associate for Brooklyn Cooperative FCU. Attending the Inclusiv 50th-anniversary conference was an incredible...
From the Blog Equity in-kind Posted by Samira Rajan on Apr 27 2024 Calvin Coolidge’s observation from 1925 still rings very true: many Americans do chiefly consider owning a business as their preference for earning a livelihood. It comes with many risks, but...
From the Blog A Trip To Queens Posted by Rebecca Pear on April 3 2024 This past Valentine’s Day, I took a trip to visit an organization called Rise Now in Flushing, Queens. Rise Now was established to help small businesses and individuals gain access to capital and...
From the Blog Don’t Get Tricked Into High-Priced Debt Posted by Samira Rajan on Jan 27 2024 MoMA put on an exhibit of paintings by the American artist Edward Ruscha recently. I like Ruscha’s pop culture style and I love his color palette. I spent a lot of...
From the Blog Dekalb -> Nostrand Posted by Samira Rajan, Jan 5 2024 Brooklyn Coop’s branch in Bedford-Stuyvesant initially opened in 2008 in a storefront across from the Marcy Houses at 750 Myrtle Avenue. It was dark, next to a liquor store, barely enough...
From the Blog Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Posted by Samira Rajan, Dec 15 2023 At the end of 2022, we announced to you all that there would be major changes in 2023. We were readying for a complete overhaul of our data systems, with the goal of offering more...