Drivers' Co-op Gathering Funding, Partnerships Before Competing With Uber and Lyft

Colorado's rideshare drivers are nailing down funding and partnerships with nonprofits like Remerg as they prepare to launch their own gig driving app.

“We have a grant that we're doing for a pilot program for people coming out of incarceration, and I'm writing [the co-op] into the grant,” says Carol Peeples, Remerg founder and executive director.

Peeples met RMEOC co-founder Dick Peterson at a leadership class in 2007, five years before the Employee Ownership Center opened in 2012. She kept a connection to the business because she thought it was a great idea and wanted to work with the center in some way to help honor Tina Yankee, an early advocate for employment equity after incarceration. She's thrilled to finally have a partnership through the drivers' co-op.

Unverferth says a lot of her current customers are people who can’t drive anymore because of DUIs, along with people with disabilities. She would like to explore options to help support those groups, too. “Drivers it'll help, because we can schedule things a little bit more — so that our drivers aren't out at 2 a.m. trying to get a quest done for Lyft to get the number of rides so that they can make a decent amount of money from it," she says.

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