FAQ

The Democracy at Work Institute defines a worker cooperative as “a values-driven business that puts worker and community benefit at the core of its purpose.” Under their definition, there are two key features of a worker cooperative:

1. Workers own the business and participate in the financial success of the cooperative business

2. Worker owners have representation on and vote for the board of directors, adhering to the principle of one worker, one vote.

Converge Collaborative offers a full range of creative services from strategy to design to production and engineering to launch and maintenance similar to a traditional creative agency. You can find our menu of services here.

Collectively, our team has over twenty years of experience delivering a range of client services. We believe in creating a transparent, collaborative process to achieve quality project outcomes. Throughout a project’s process, from beginning to end, we commit to communication: we will articulate what you can expect from us and what we need from you, and we will share the process in ways that honors all parties’ needs for collaboration.

In an effort to shift from the invisibilizing term BIPOC, we use the term “people of the global majority” or POGM to encompass those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color within the global diaspora, including mixed and white-presenting people. Currently, we are a worker cooperative led by Asian, Asian Pacific Islander, Black and SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) workers. While we use the term POGM, we acknowledge the particular ways anti-blackness impacts Black people and the ways colonization impacts Indigenous people both here on Turtle Island and beyond.

Yes. We have engineers and designers on our team who can help your company build complete digital infrastructure including websites.

Yes. We have experience with product launches and promotional marketing campaigns.

Artists are welcomed as social members* of the cooperative, where they can join bi-monthly meetings, share work and receive constructive feedback, and participate in collaborations as desired. We are working toward building more substantial infrastructures to support artists.

*Social members is another name for those that participate in Converge but are not worker-owners; e.g. they do not participate in client or revenue-bearing projects.

Our hourly rate starts at $100 per hour. Project costs may vary according to the type of labor and the time to complete that labor. Please contact us directly to discuss relevant pricing of your project with more specifics.

Our operations are decentralized and are members are on the East and West coasts of Turtle Island (United. States). We do have a mailing address, email, and a phone number where you can contact us.

Our members, who generously share their valuable practiced skills as marketers, offer us a reliable way to financially support the cooperative. While we recognize the complicated, and often harmful systems that birthed the practice of marketing, we also understand that these same harmful systems make it difficult to fully untangle from them in the ways we would like.