Session Schedule

Friday June 22nd, 2012

Saturday June 23rd, 2012

Time	Blackman Auditorium	Room TBA	Room TBA 2	Room TBA 3	Room TBA 4	Room TBA 5	Room TBA 6	...
9:00AM - 10:00AM	Opening: Welcome to Boston
10:15AM - 12:00PM		Worker Cooperatives Are...People! Not the IRS! Anti-Oppression Audits Kiran Nigam, Jenna Peters-Golden	Growing Our Movement Co-ops Seeding Co-ops: Finding and Sprouting Opportunities for New Enterprises Noemi Giszpenc	Do It Yourself Immigrant-Led Worker Cooperatives, part 1 Carlos Perez de Alejo, Minsun Ji, David Smathers Moore	Sustaining Your Cooperative Being Your Boss's Boss Aaron Dawson	Basics Business Law for Cooperatives Thomas Beckett	Cooperative Connections Regional Experiments in Principle 6 Webster Walker, Bob Noble, Peter Brown, Andi Shively, Adam Trott
12:00PM - 1:00PM								Lunch in Dining Commons
1:15PM - 3:15PM		Sustaining Your Cooperative The Coop Index Alison Booth, Jim Johnson	Sustaining Your Cooperative What Next? Thinking about retirement planning (share valuation, equity redemption, asset development) Margaret Lund	Do It Yourself Tech Tools for Sharing Joe Marraffino, Jason Want, Brendan Martin, Brian Van Slyke	Growing Our Movement Structuring Worker Cooperatives (and the Cooperative Movement) for Growth Tim Huet	Do It Yourself Immigrant-Led Worker Cooperatives, part 2 Elizabeth Arredondo, Luz Maria Arias, Carlos Gaspar, Carolina Herrera	Cooperative Connections Cross Sector Co-operation: You Know You Want To, But Why? Erbin Crowell
3:15PM - 3:45PM								Coffee Break
3:45PM - 5:15PM		Worker Cooperatives Are...People! Fully Human Resources: A Human-Centered Approach to HR Esteban Kelly, Tyrone Boucher, Jenny Glazer	Basics Experiments in Coop Academies Omar Freilla, Carlos Perez de Alejo, Noemi Giszpenc	Growing Our Movement The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Worker Co-ops Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Michael Johnson, Len Krimerman	Cooperative Connections Building a Cooperative "Ecosystem" in North America: Lessons from Around the World Hazel Corcoran, David Smathers Moore	Basics How To Read a Balance Sheet: Worker Cooperative Financial Reporting Dirk Prindle	Do It Yourself We Bought Our Building Without the Banks John Langley
5:30PM - 11:30PM								Community Picnic and Party in Jamaica Plain (Stony Brook T)

Sunday June 24th, 2012

Time	Blackman Auditorium	Room TBA	Room TBA 2	Room TBA 3	Room TBA 4	Room TBA 5	Room TBA 6	...
9:00AM - 10:30AM	Plenary Session: Building National Worker Cooperative Movements - Lessons from Around the World
10:45AM - 12:45PM		Basics Contemporary History of U.S. Worker Cooperative Organizing Joe Marraffino	Do It Yourself Youth Cooperatives with the Toxic Soil Busters Asa Needle, Jonathan Rodrigues, Haley Berube, Vaughn Collymore	Growing Our Movement USFWC Member Meeting USFWC Admin	Bonus! Tech Co-ops: A Better Way of Making a Living Raeanne Young, Sabiha Basrai, Drew Stephan	Cooperative Connections Fair Trade, Foreign Policy, and Global Solidarity- International Development in the IYC Rob Everts, David Branigan, Jesse Last	Growing Our Movement Worker Cooperative Conversions David Ritchie, John Abrams, Rebekah Hanlon
1:00PM - 2:00PM								Lunch with Community Food Trucks
2:15PM - 3:45PM		Sustaining Your Cooperative Ask An Expert Noemi Giszpenc, Tim Huet, Thomas Beckett, Chris Mackin, Edward De Barbieri, Newell Lessell	Worker Cooperatives Are...People! Resolution Not Ruins: Conflict Resolution in Your Coop Kiran Nigam, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs	Basics Demystifying the Lending Process Maggie Cohn, Gerardo Espinoza, Christina Jennings	Do It Yourself Got Schwag? Branding Visuals for Worker Coops Sabiha Basrai	Sustaining Your Cooperative Building Multigenerational Cooperatives: Succession Planning and Turnover John Abrams	Worker Cooperatives Are...People! Effective Meetings: Make Them Happen Melissa Hoover