Co-ops as Tools for Economic Justice
Eco-Roots: Justice and Sustainability
Developing New Co-ops
Plug in! Basic Building Blocks of Cooperation
Moving Further: Advanced Courses for Seasoned Co-opers
Community Health
Building Inclusive Communities
Worker-ownership and Workplace Democracy
Co-ops as Tools for Economic Justice
Other economies are possible! This course thread fully embraces this year's theme, equipping participants with models and tactics to incorporate a new economics in work, housing, community and everyday life.
131. Organizing Cultural Cooperatives and Cross-Cultural Networks to Promote Sustainable Livelihood on the Land
132. Participatory Economics - Institutional Visions of an Anarchist Economy
172. Remembering Urban Revolution: Sharing Stories of Inspiration and Co-operation in Detroit
182. Economic and Social Benefits of Manufactured Housing Park Cooperatives
231. Strategies for Cooperating Out Of Poverty: an African Youth Cooperative Perspective
232. Cooperatives & Community Economic Development
233. Participatory Economic Vision - Implications for Strategy Today
234. Connecting with Community Builders
241. Worker Cooperatives as a Job Creation Strategy for Students and as an Economic Development Tool for Local Communities
331. Building a Participatory Economic Workplace and Society
332. Other Economies Are Possible!: An Introduction to Solidarity Economics
333. UHAB: An Unique Approach to Affordable Housing in New York City
342. The Take: Screening and Discussion
431. Cooperative Grocers: Promoting Economic-Justice for Family Farmers through Organic Market Development
432. Community Development Credit Unions: Radical Cooperative Banking
441. Building Democratic Workplaces
471. The Grand House Student Co-op
531. Here Comes the Neighborhood: Expanding the Co-op Circle
532. Domestic Fair Trade
Eco-Roots: Justice and Sustainability
Some of the most vital examples of cooperative principles in action arise when communities come together to address both ecological and social problems in order to meet their everyday needs. Workshops in this thread will showcase efforts toward sustainable community building and strategies for grassroots organizing to address fundamental issues of environmental injustice. We will look at different models of collective action, including urban agriculture, green building, and healthy food distribution systems.
171. For Sustainable Kitchens
172. Remembering Urban Revolution: sharing stories of inspiration and co-operation in Detroit
Detroit Tour. Hope Takes Root: Growing Power and Justice in a City Abandoned by Capitalism
271. Challenging the Triple Bottom Line: Where's the Justice in Sustainability?
471. The Grand House Student Co-op
Friday: The Community Pantry: Sidestepping the Food Distribution Enterprise
Developing New Co-ops
This course thread is designed to walk you through the process of starting a new co-op from clarifying your initial concept to drafting your business plan. Workshops in this series provide a comprehensive, step-by-step training program to the development process.
181. Part1: Getting Organized
281. Part2: Incorporation and Tax Exemption
381. Part3: Housing Co-ops: Assessing Feasibility & Finding the Right Building
481. Part4: Negotiating Your Way to Ownership
581. Part5: Putting it All Together: The Business Plan
131. Organizing Cultural Cooperatives and Cross-Cultural Networks to Promote Sustainable Livelihood on the Land
333. UHAB: An Unique Approach to Affordable Housing in New York City
334. Cooperative Development and Community Organizing
471. The Grand House Student Co-op
582. Should You Start a Community or Join One?
Plug in! Basic Building Blocks of Cooperation
Are you just getting into the swing of things at your co-op? This course thread offers a wide range of co-op basics to get you grounded, from co-op movement history to essential skills like basic facilitation and finance proficiency to hands-on sessions in maintenance, kitchen safety, and nutrition. This series is ideal for anyone who hopes to leave NASCO Institute with a new set of concrete skills to take back to their co-op.
111. Connected Books: Co-op Bookkeeping Made Easy
112. The Essentials of Dynamic Facilitation; How to Get Through the Agenda and Build Energy at the Same Time
211. Board Roles and Responsibilities
311. Conflict: Fight, Flight, or Opportunity?
411. Open Source Software and Your Co-op
412. Meal Planning and Nutrition
413. Small Co-operative Group Finance
511. Beginning Kitchen Managing for Small Co-ops
Moving Further: Advanced Courses for Seasoned Co-opers
Everything you need to know to turn your into the place you've always envisioned! Getting your co-op running smoothly and planning improvements requires a wide range of skills and a wealth of collective knowledge; so get the skinny on advanced co-op workings like strategic planning, member training, and board member roles & responsibilities. You can also gain an aptitude for grant writing and income tax filing- all the essential Do-It-Yourself organizational tools to bring your co-op from the down-and-out to the up and up!
121. Building Community by Building as a Community
171. For Sustainable Kitchens
221. Stump the Chumps
222. We're All Teachers Here: Cooperative and Popular Education
351. Leading Anti-Oppression Trainings in Your Co-op
421. Marketing Your Co-op
422. Consensus Headaches: Rx for Meeting Moments That Are a Pain for Everyone
521. Wiki Your Way to Forming a Cooperative
522. How to Deal with Problem Members
523. How To Preserve Your Co-op's History
524. Giving Dynamic Trainings and Reporting Back Home
Community Health
The health of a community is about more than just the physical health of its individual members--it is also about how the group deals with conflict, how members of the community are supported during times of crisis, and the ways that people communicate with each other on a daily basis. The workshops in this thread will explore the many aspects of collective well-being and offer strategies for making your cooperative a healthier environment for all its members.
172. Remembering Urban Revolution: sharing stories of inspiration and co-operation in Detroit
Tour. Hope Takes Root: Growing Power and Justice in a City Abandoned by Capitalism
261. Cooperative Strategies for Responding to Sexual Assault
262. Realistic Responses to Substance Abuse in Cooperative Communities
361. Building Radical Community-Based Mental Health Support Systems in a World Gone Mad
362. Exploring Sexualities
461. Breaking History and Making Tradition: Learning from Our Histories to Build Our Communities
523. How To Preserve Your Co-op's History
533. International Students Living in Cooperatives
561. Guy-necology: Examining Sexual Issues for Men
Building Inclusive Communities
Creating an inclusive community means going beyond feel-good rhetoric about ‘diversity awareness’ or using targeted recruitment strategies as a means for working hard to ensure that systems of oppression are not being reproduced in your community. The courses in this thread focus on identifying and actively resisting institutional and interpersonal forms of oppression, as well as building alternative models of community that are based on equality and justice.
131. Organizing Cultural Cooperatives and Cross-Cultural Networks to Promote Sustainable Livelihood on the Land
151. Cultural Theft vs. Cultural Sharing: Thinking Through Cultural Appropriation in Our Communities
152. Seen, Heard and Participating- Kids in Housing Co-ops
251. Anti-Racism: Being a White Ally
252. Beyond Pink and Blue: Intro to Trans Issues
351. Examining Power and Privilege: Tools to Organize Trainings for your Co-op
352. Organizing for Racial Justice
361. Building Radical Community-Based Mental Health Support Systems in a World Gone Mad
451. Trans Allyship: Eradicating Transphobia in Our Communities
531. International Students Living in Cooperatives
551. Anti-Oppression Action Camp: Lessons Learned
Worker-ownership and Workplace Democracy
Through worker-owned cooperatives we can experience an alternative economic system here and now. Worker co-ops are a part of a growing movement that encourages economic solidarity, workplace democracy and economic self-determination within communities. Workshops in this course thread will explore the histories of worker cooperatives and the implications both locally and transnationality of a ‘solidarity economy.' Principles of worker ownership, types of worker-owned businesses, and examples of successful worker coops will inspire co-opers from all backgrounds!
141. Worker-Ownership and the Food Cooperative
142. Connecting Garmet workers to the Market : Creating and Sustaining the Worker-owned Model
241. Worker Cooperatives as a job creation strategy for students and as an economic development tool for local communities
341. Worker-Owned Businesses on College Campuses
342. The Take: Screening and Discussion
441. Building Democratic Workplaces
541. The Power of Sharing: The Economics of an Egalitarian Commune
