Seed Coworking is Toledo's first coworking community. Coworking is more than just free-lancers working from somewhere besides a coffee shop: "Coworking brings like-minded individuals together to share ideas, resources and projects" [from seedcoworking.com]

Seed offers a variety of plans for membership:

• Unlimited: 24/7 access, $175 /month

• Medium: 2 days per week, $85 /month

• Student: 2 days per week,  $35 /month

• Small: 1 day per month, $25 /month

History of Seed Coworking

A brief timeline:

• ?: The three founders, Gene Powell, Jamie Wright and Don Miller, decide to start a coworking space and review many locations.
• ? : They select 25 South St. Clair and start the remodeling process.
• March 27, 2012: Kickstarter campaign launched to fund furnishing the space.
• April 17, 2012: Campaign ends after reaching their $12,000 goal.
• May 15: Seed Coworking gets it occupancy permit, so it is officially open for business.
• June 5: Holds first Town Hall

Event Hosting

One of the key roles Seed Coworking has played is hosting events for the technical community. Just some of them include:

• Toledo Web Professionals Card Sorting Clinic, July 30
• Startup Weekend Toledo Pre-event Mixer, September 6
• Lunch 'n' Learn events, starting in October
• Regular, monthly meetings for CocoaHeads Toledo, DevToledo and OpenHack Toledo.
• ToledoWiki Edit Parties.

Articles

• March 20, 2103, Blade. Seed Coworking offers place to put heads, ideas together.