For 10 years I taught a jewelry group at a Catholic women's ministry called Sarah Center in Over the Rhine. It was an interesting cooperative. We taught women how to make jewlery, supplied the materials, and helped them market the work as a group while training them to market it on their own. We made enough money to pay the women 60% and purchase materials to make more. We paid show and marketing expenses from grant money we received.
Sarah Center also made sewn items and quilts in the same cooperative way.
Women earned a percentage of the money when their work sold at Grailville, The National Underground Freedom Center, Findlay Market, the Main Library, Christ Church Cathedral, and local arts and craft events. This past summer they had a booth on Fountain Square each week.
When I started working with Sarah Center there were several other craft cooperatives in OTR: Women on Track made sewn items. There was also a group of men who made crafts from wooden pallets, but I don't remember their name. I don't know of any more.
