Wheels Collective Inc.

WHEELS Collective (Women's Hands Establishing Entrepreneurial Leadership Skills) is a solidarity economy organization that develops women-owned and operated cooperatives of automotive repair shops. WHEELS uses traditional and non-traditional economic self-sufficiency models to empower women and gender non-conforming people to achieve economic independence. WHEELS uses solidarity economy as a way to counter the effects of the current economy on women, survivors and poor communities because it offers an alternative development framework that is grounded in practice and the principles of: solidarity, mutualism, and cooperation; equity in all dimensions (race/ethnicity/ nationality, class, gender, LGBTQ); social well-being over profit and the unfettered rule of the market; sustainability; social and economic democracy; and pluralism, allowing for different forms in different contexts, open to continual change and driven from the bottom-up.

WHEELS Collective (Women's Hands Establishing Entrepreneurial Leadership Skills) is a charitable organization that will mobilize women and their communities to take steps to ensure economic security, economic justice and gender equity; support women and the issues that allow them to thrive in their own lives and in the world; create opportunities for dialogue where women can bring their voices, skills, vision and leadership; create a place where women can find supportive services to help them succeed in all realms.