Ted Howard (born 1950,
Ohio
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) is a political activist and author. He is the founder and Executive Director of The Democracy Collaborative, as well as chairman of the board of ocean advocacy group
Blue Frontier Campaign. He was the Minter Senior Fellow for Social Justice with the
Cleveland Foundation from 2010–2014.
Career
Howard has been involved with the
Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland, Ohio, which was based in part on the
Mondragon Cooperatives in the Basque Region of Spain. Characterized in press accounts as "The Cleveland Model," Evergreen is an effort to create green jobs in low-income neighborhoods using the purchasing power of the City's anchor institutions (hospitals, universities, etc.) to create local
worker cooperative
A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and Workers' self-management, self-managed by its workers. This control may mean a Company, firm where every worker-owner participates in decision-making in a democratic fashion, or it may refer to one ...
businesses.
Howard has co-authored several books with economist Jeremy Rifkin, including ''
Entropy: A New World View,'' ''Voices of the American Revolution'', and ''Who Should Play God?''. While at The Hunger Project, he and Dana Meadows et al. co-wrote ''Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time has Come''.
He and the Democracy Collaborative's research director Steve Dubb have collaborated on a number of articles with political economist
Gar Alperovitz
Gar Alperovitz (born May 5, 1936) is an American historian and political economist. Alperovitz served as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics; a founding Fellow at the Institute for Poli ...
, most recently "The Cleveland Model," which appeared in ''
The Nation
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'', and "Cleveland's Worker-Owned Boom" in ''
Yes Magazine''. Howard is also the co-author of the Democracy Collaborative report
''The Anchor Dashboard: Aligning Institutional Practice to Meet Low-Income Community Needs'' an
''The Anchor Mission: Leveraging the Power of Anchor Institutions to Build Community Wealth''.
In 2010, ''
Utne Reader
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'' magazine named Howard as one of the "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" for his foundation of the Democracy Collaborative.
He was named an Innovative Idea Champion in 2010 by CFED.
References
External links
Political science books citing Ted Howard Retrieved from
Google Books
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, April 14, 2010.
"Keynote: Anchor Man"by Marc Steiner. ''Urbanite Baltimore'' No. 70, Retrieved April 13, 2010
Evergreen Cooperatives* [http://permaculture.tv/evergreen-cooperatives-place-based-strategy-for-worker-cooperative-development/ Permaculture TV – "Place-Based Strategy for Worker Cooperative Development" Accessed August 26, 2010]
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Living people
1950 births
American non-fiction writers