Session materials from “From Coop to Community” presented by Daniel Greenberg at NASCO Institute 2024. Do you love living in community and want to make it part of your life post-college? Come learn about the Foundation for Intentional Communityn (www.ic.org), the Global Ecovillage Network (www.ecovillage.org) and other opportunities to stay connected to the growing movement of communities striving to model positive visions for humanity and the planet.
Session materials from “Building Economic Democracy: Building Blocks for Co-op Strategy” presented by Steve Dubb at NASCO Institute 2024. How can co-ops not just serve member-owners, but act as the life-affirming institutions that we need to build a more democratic economy, rooted in values of solidarity? This session introduced key strategies that can build wealth and power in communities —such as community land trusts, participatory budgeting, public banks, and employee ownership.
Session materials from “Revitalizing Your New Member Acceptance Practices” presented by Emily Sears and Rahul Mannapperuma at NASCO Institute 2024. Updating your co-op's practices to align with your vision, mission and goals is no small feat. After a downward trend of engaged student members, Neill-Wycik decided to overhaul their membership acceptance from a "First Come, First Serve" policy to a rigorous, robust process to ensure the alignment of new co-op members with the co-op's mission and vision as best as possible.
Session materials from “Mobilizing Housing Development For Youth Aging Out of Foster Care” presented by Donna Coulter at NASCO Institute 2024. During this session, Higher Ground Abodes described its efforts to develop housing with people extremely low-income Detroiters aging out of foster care who need housing, financial, and life support. The model combines community land trust (CLT) and group equity cooperative living to provide shared housing within the youth's financial reach.
The following is a link to the Dropbox folder holding the 2023 NASCO Institute Session Materials:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/c3sc78yfy4gpl3kh2hgbn/h?rlkey=j9m7q0ab99c...
From The Housing Center:
This toolkit was created to provide fair housing guidance for formerly incarcerated individuals as well as family members and professionals advocating for those impacted by the criminal legal system. Many formerly incarcerated individuals face continued penalties post-incarceration by being excluded from housing based upon their criminal records. This toolkit is meant to provide information on fair housing rights and resources that can assist in navigating barriers to finding housing.
The Annual Report of the NASCO Family, FYE 2022.
This short video created by Nitin Gadia outlines the basics of starting a group equity housing cooperative.
In 2021, NASCO conducted interviews with 28 member co-ops using a standardized set of questions regarding several areas of co-op health: governance, legal obligations, finances, membership, education, maintenance, leadership, staffing, community engagement, and quality of life for members.
In this report, NASCO has aggregated the results of all co-op health assessments to offer an overall picture of our sector's health. The goals of this report include:
An example of a Roles and Chores guide from a small co-op of 6 members without staff. This co-op reported smooth functioning of their labor system and positive culture of accountability for completing tasks.
