Course Tracks help to categorize workshops into themes. The following course tracks are being offered in 2010:
The Cardinal Points of Cooperation
Advanced Navigation: From Accountability to Zoning
An Atlas of Movements: Cooperation and Beyond
Exploring Geographies: Cooperation Across Borders
Homegrown Maps: Mapping & Media to Reclaim the Commons
Margins to Centers: Mapping Healthy Communities
Compass of Cooperative Development
The Cardinal Points of Cooperation
This course track will provide instruments for cooperators to orient ourselves within our co-ops as well as within the broader cooperative movement. This course thread is ideal for anyone who hopes to leave NASCO Institute with some concrete tools and practices to apply at home.
151. Best Practices: Member Education and New Member Orientation
Kim Penna, Thomas Butler
152. Common Feast: Kitchen Management, Cheap Meals, and Meeting the Needs of Your Co-op Crowd
L. Amelia Raley
251. Hands on Maintenance Skillshare
Geoff Mayers
252. Board Roles and Responsibilities
Patrick Ford
253. Basic Budget Fluency
Daniel Miller
451. Conflict: Fight, Flight, or Opportunity?
Laird Schaub
452. Fair Housing and Open Membership: Could Your Membership Policies Get You in Legal Trouble?
Daniel Miller
Advanced Navigation: From Accountability to Zoning
Advanced Navigation offers a wealth of collective insight on advanced co-op workings like financial planning, member training, and troubleshooting problems in your community. Workshops in this track will also examine the landscape of community economic development as it relates to the cooperative model.
161. Power Dynamics and Leadership in Cooperative Groups
Laird Schaub
162. How to Make Your Community's Zoning Code Co-op Friendly
Adam Porton, David Sparer, Jeff Bessmer
261. Navigating Labor-Sharing Challenges
Lauren Beitler
CANCELED 263. Grassroots Gazillionaires! Map Your Community Assets to Fund Your Projects
Kristen Cox, Rachel Wallis
2362. Educate to Cooperate: Building Our Coop Education and Training Programs
kiran nigam
361. Introduction to Cooperative Personnel Management
Susan Caya
362. Green Retrofitting for Co-ops
Ben Pearl
461. Roadmap to Cooperative Accounting Success: Principles & Purpose
Corrigann Nadon-Nichols
561. Mapping a Life in Co-ops: Exploring Opportunities to Have More Cooperation in Your Life
Kim Penna, Erin Hancock
562. The Cooperator's Nobel Prize: Institutions and Intentional Community
Seth Frey
An Atlas of Movements: Cooperation and Beyond
An Atlas of Movements will create new representations of cooperation across sectors, movements, people, and cultures. We will identify past, current, and future solidarity between the cooperative movement and broader social movements.
111. Co-ops & Community Development: Bridging the Gap
Steve Dubb (moderator); Stephanie Guico, Emily Ng, Dan Apfel, Holly Jo Sparks
211. College Town Organizing
Ben Ayer
212. Solidarity Economy Mapping
Ashley Satorius
2312. CoFed: A Cooperative Groundswell Through the Campus Food Movements
Yoni Landau
311. Radical Sharing & Cooperation: Life on an Egalitarian Commune
Paul Blundell
312. Mapping University Investments - Current Connections and Creating Change
Dan Apfel
CANCELED 411. Mapping a Just Food System
Rachel Wallis
411. Undoing Racism in Detroit's Food System
412.Mapping African American Cooperatives: From Mutual Aid to Cooperative Business Ownership among African Americans: Asserting Economic Independence
Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo
413. Fair Trade and the Co-op Movement
Adam Konner
Exploring Geographies: Cooperation Across Borders
This track explores the landscape of cooperation across real and imagined borders. Workshops range from establishing North-South dialogue in the Americas and larger global arena, exploring rural and urban co-op geographies, and mapping cooperative movements in North American regions.
121. Mapping Co-operation From Sea to Sea: Exploring Co-ops in North America
Erin Hancock, Sarah Pike
122. Rural, Small Town and Urban Connections
Elandria Williams
221. Cooperation Across Borders: People, Places, and Movements in Mexico
Sabrina Sideris
321. Building Regional Cooperation: Where Co-ops, Food Systems, and Geography Intersect
Eric DeLuca
521. Overview of the North American Intentional Communities Movement (And How Student Co-ops Fit Into It)
Laird Schaub
522. Borders, Walls and Occupied Places: Lessons from South African Apartheid, Solidarity with Palestine, & Implementing BDS Campaigns on your Campus and Co-op
Jenna Peters-Golden
Homegrown Maps: Mapping & Media to Reclaim the Commons
Mapping is a powerful creative intervention for making the invisible visible, bringing disparities to the forefront, and creating visual representations of power and our communities. By incorporating DIY media--printmaking, storytelling, GIS, social networking sites--we can create maps to reclaim the commons and redefine our collective cartography.
131. Using Community Mapping to Build New Coops
Lincoln Miller, Sabrina Sideris
231. Basics of GIS: Contextualizing Cooperatives
David Arfa
232. Digital Storytelling
Kas Ocasio-Pare
2333. "Choose Your Own Adventure" Community Cartography from West Philly and Beyond
Esteban Kelly and other members of Mariposa Co-op, Philly Stands Up, the LCA, and AORTA
331. Navigating Co-op Websites, Intranets, and Information Technology
Matt Senate
332. Mapping Your Community Assets
Steve Dubb
333. Q & A with the Counter Cartographies Collective
Liz Mason Deese, Tim Stallman
431. Co-op NYC: Geographies of Cooperation & Affordable Housing
Sarah Snider
CANCELED 432. Mapping the University We Want
Liz Mason Deese, Tim Stallman
Margins to Centers: Mapping Healthy Communities
Our intersecting identities inform our experiences and perspectives and affect how we relate to the dynamic communities to which we belong. By mapping the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, ability, and class within ourselves and our communities, we can create healthy, just cooperative communities.
141. Theater of the Oppressed: Theater for Cooperative Communication and Problem-Solving
Morgan Andrews
142. WE CAN DO THIS | Applying Transformative Justice in Cooperative Communities:
A Case Study in Addressing Sexualized Violence
Jenna Peters Golden, Beth Blum, Bench Ansfield, Esteban Kelly
2342. Building White Anti-Racist Praxis
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
2343. Mad Maps and Other Tools for Building Peer Mental Health Support in Co-ops
Angel Adehoya
441. Trans Allyship 101
Emma Gormley, San Maday Travis
442. Navigating Class Issues in Cooperative Communities
Tyrone Boucher, acca warren
443. Who Is Missing From Your Co-op? Welcome People with Disabilities Into Your Co-op
Rahnee Patrick
541. Institutionalized Patriarchy: Mapping Our Resistance
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
542. Appropriate vs. Appropriation: Culture, Respect, and Inclusivity in Our Co-ops
Alix Black
Compass of Cooperative Development
In today's economic climate, the demand for affordable housing solutions--like housing co-ops--is greater than ever. NASCO has pulled together a team of experts to walk future co-op founders through the process of starting a new housing co-op. Workshops in this series provide a comprehensive, step-by-step training program on the development process.
171. Developing New Co-ops Part One: Getting Organized for Small Co-ops
Michael Gregor, Mark Fick
172. Developing New Co-ops Part One: Getting Organized for Expanding Co-ops
Jim Jones
173. Organizing Community Affordable Housing Cooperatives: Lessons from the Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative
Ajowa Ifateyo, Patricia Kinch
271. Developing New Co-ops Part Two: Obtaining Tax Exempt Status for Your Co-op
Holly Jo Sparks, David Sparer
371. Developing New Co-ops Part Three: Assessing Financial Feasibility: What Can You Afford?
Mark Fick, Holly Jo Sparks
471. Developing New Cooperatives Part Four: Purchase or Lease a House for a Housing Co-op
Emily Ng, David Sparer
571. Developing New Co-ops Part Five: Putting it All Together: The Business Plan
Emily Cheney
