NASCO Institute is just around the corner, and workshop descriptions, the Institute schedule, and registration are all live on the NASCO website.  To get you pumped to register, here are five exciting things to do at Institute:

1.  Go on the Detroit Tour
Friday, November 4, 12 pm - 6 pm

Roughly 200 worker co-op members gathered from across the eastern half of the country in Baltimore, Maryland this July for the Eastern Conference on Workplace Democracy. The conference, organized by former NASCO staff members Neily Jennings and Esteban Kelly, attracted record attendance. Workshop sessions were wide-ranging ... and so were the co-ops represented-from the Sí Se Puede housecleaning co-op in the Bronx to Equal Exchange (based in Massachusetts) to new co-ops organizing in New Orleans, Louisiana to the long-standing Isthmus Engineering Co-op in Madison, Wisconsin.

On July 17, 2011, kiran nigam, core member of the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA ) and former NASCO Director of Education and Training, facilitated a day-long workshop on "Deconstructing Ableism: (Dis)ability and Shared Housing." The workshop was presented by Kalamazoo Collective Housing and sponsored by Western Michigan University Disability Services for Students and the Weste

August 2011

August 7-13, Lee, MA | Responsible Endowments Coalition Summer Organizing Institute 
Application Deadline June 1

August 20-21, Buffalo, NY | NASCO Properties Board Meeting