NASCO is in search of presenters for the 2010 Cooperative Education and Training Institute [0], November 5-7 in Ann Arbor, MI. The deadline to submit proposals is June 30, 2010!
*priority will be given to proposals received before June 15*
There are six kinds of proposals:
- Workshops
- Panel Discussions
- Films
- Tables
- Skillshares
- Caucuses/Working Groups
Click Here to Submit a Proposal [1]
This year's Institute, Cooperative Cartography: Where People, Places, and Movements Intersect, will encourage the use of mapping as a tool to grow our understanding of cooperatives and communities and build the cooperative movement across borders. The theme will will build on the previous three themes, environmental justice, land rights, and solidarity economy,
We are seeking proposals for sessions that will educate and engage Institute participants along the following theme:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.