This week’s episode features Trila Malone, Founder/CEO, and Anthony Brown, Vice President of Twin Cities Impact Cooperative and graduates of the Start.coop 2025 Black Community Wealth Accelerator. Vernon and his guests will discuss how a Black-led, worker-owned cooperative is transforming home and community-based care by creating quality jobs, expanding worker ownership, and helping older adults and people with disabilities live independently with dignity.
Trila Malone founded Twin Cities Impact Cooperative after more than two decades supporting people with disabilities in achieving greater independence and improving their quality of life. Guided by the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to thrive on their own terms, she established the cooperative to deliver exceptional care while creating pathways to shared ownership and economic opportunity for historically underserved communities.
Based in Minnesota, Twin Cities Impact Cooperative provides home-delivered meals, homemaking, chore, transportation, and adult day services that strengthen independence and build meaningful relationships between caregivers, participants, families, and the communities they serve. As a worker-owned cooperative, the organization empowers its caregivers with an ownership stake, fostering accountability, high-quality service, and long-term community impact.