Sessions

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Effective Meetings: Make Them Happen Melissa Hoover Like the sands of time through the hourglass, do you feel your life force slipping away in meetings? Throw away the hourglass! (Also, they have clocks now - get one of those.) This session aims to...	Worker Cooperatives Are...People!
Fully Human Resources: A Human-Centered Approach to HR Esteban Kelly, Tyrone Boucher, Jenny Glazer Inclusive, encouraging, and worker-centered policies should be the backbone of any cooperative personnel framework. In democratic workplaces, “Human Resources” are centered around the...	Worker Cooperatives Are...People!
Effective Meetings Presenter(s) To Be Announced	Worker Cooperatives Are...People!
Not the IRS! Anti-Oppression Audits Kiran Nigam, Jenna Peters-Golden The work of centralizing anti oppression values in your co-op is a many layered thing. Assessing your co-op’s policies, goals, development and practices as they relate to power and privilege can...	Worker Cooperatives Are...People!
Resolution Not Ruins: Conflict Resolution in Your Coop Kiran Nigam, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs As in all communities, conflict in democratically run enterprises is unavoidable. It is also uncomfortable. In working through it the question shouldn’t be, “How do we prevent conflict?” but...	Worker Cooperatives Are...People!
Being Your Boss's Boss Aaron Dawson A look at how worker coops grapple with the challenge of having worker run boards. Specifically, what are some challenges of a. having workers who most likely have little experience running...	Sustaining Your Cooperative
The Coop Index Alison Booth, Jim Johnson This workshop introduces a powerful new tool to assess your coop’s strengths and weaknesses, and create systems that help you function better as a group, as a business, as a cooperative. The Coop...	Sustaining Your Cooperative
Building Multigenerational Cooperatives: Succession Planning and Turnover John Abrams The South Mountain approach – "We think about our work as the cathedral builders thought about theirs. We try to think for generations, as we try to design and build for generations." (John Abrams...	Sustaining Your Cooperative
What Next? Thinking about retirement planning (share valuation, equity redemption, asset development) Margaret Lund Many members are attracted to worker cooperatives simply for the unique experience of daily sharing with colleagues in the ownership and direction of an exciting enterprise. Eventually, however,...	Sustaining Your Cooperative
Ask An Expert Noemi Giszpenc, Tim Huet, Thomas Beckett, Chris Mackin, Edward De Barbieri, Newell Lessell Bring all of your questions and conundrums to the experts for their opinions and advice.	Sustaining Your Cooperative
Co-ops Seeding Co-ops: Finding and Sprouting Opportunities for New Enterprises Noemi Giszpenc Worker cooperatives are among the most entrepreneurial when it comes to helping new cooperatives start. How amazing would it be if every cooperative stepped up to the challenge of starting a new...	Growing Our Movement
The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Worker Co-ops Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Michael Johnson, Len Krimerman This workshop is a dialogue on what some call the “nonprofit industrial complex.” Together we will discuss and address questions such as: Is there a non-profit industrial complex? What does that...	Growing Our Movement
Structuring Worker Cooperatives (and the Cooperative Movement) for Growth Tim Huet Not all cooperatives or would-be cooperative founders are interested in growth (at least in terms of substantial job growth). But for those interested in creating cooperatives that generate large...	Growing Our Movement
Worker Cooperative Conversions David Ritchie, John Abrams, Rebekah Hanlon Panelists are veterans and newbies from cooperatives that were converted from conventional businesses to worker cooperatives will talk about the issues they faced, how they went about making the...	Growing Our Movement
USFWC Member Meeting USFWC Admin	Growing Our Movement
Immigrant-Led Worker Cooperatives, part 1 Carlos Perez de Alejo, Minsun Ji, David Smathers Moore A “lay-of-the-land” overview of different approaches being pursued, including different ways of organizing and developing the capacities needed to get a cooperative off the ground, different...	Do It Yourself
Immigrant-Led Worker Cooperatives, part 2 Elizabeth Arredondo, Luz Maria Arias, Carlos Gaspar, Carolina Herrera A historic series of presentations by and dialogue among worker-owners from four immigrant-led cooperatives from across the US: Opportunity Threads, a cut-and-sew cooperative in North Carolina;...	Do It Yourself
We Bought Our Building Without the Banks John Langley This workshop focuses on creative fundraising and financing strategies when getting money from banks and other institutional lenders isn't an option. We'll talk specifically about our successful...	Do It Yourself
Tech Tools for Sharing Joe Marraffino, Jason Want, Brendan Martin, Brian Van Slyke This workshop looks at four tools created by the cooperative community to effectively share information both within a cooperative, and on a movement-wide basis. We’ll look at: -C4...	Do It Yourself
Got Schwag? Branding Visuals for Worker Coops Sabiha Basrai Does your co-op know how to schwag? Ok, we're really talking about all the promotional materials that your co-op puts out to the world. We'll talk about how to develop a consistent brand and...	Do It Yourself

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