The Ica Group

Community-based development provides services that creates jobs for low income communities and save jobs by helping stabilize communities and assist businesses that are at risk to avert plant closures. We promote worker ownership as a means to improve job quality and help low income individuals accrue wealth. We provide assistance to a number of not for profit organizations regarding cooperative development and work with groups interested in forming cooperatives. We produce publications, hold seminars and workshops and provide in-house education training for existing and future worker-owned and community based businesses.

Promote home care cooperatives as a means to improve The quality of home care jobs and create pathways for home care workers to accumulate weath. Ica developed and manages elevate, an network of home care cooperatives. Once established, elevate will launch as a cooperative of cooperatives. Ica provides a range of services to support The field of practice, including research, education, and management troubleshooting. In The past year elevate and icas home care program have supported home care coopeatives across The country stabilize and grow, ensuring The further development of quality jobs.

Promote alternative staffing as a means to create jobs for low income communities and provide technical assistance to alternative staffing organizations. Ica developed and manages The alternative staffing alliance, an association of over forty alternative staffing agencies. Ica provides a range of services to support The field of practice, including research, education, and management troubleshooting. In The past year, alternative staffing agencies that we worked with placed a significant number of individuals with obstacles to employment in paid work positions.