Lies About Allies: Creating Cooperative Solidarity - NASCO Institute
Session materials from "Lies About Allies: Creating Cooperative Solidarity," presented by Maisie Kise and Charlie Anderle at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Session materials from "Lies About Allies: Creating Cooperative Solidarity," presented by Maisie Kise and Charlie Anderle at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Session materials from "Grappling with Racial Inequality, How Can We Create a Better World?," presented by Rachel Vernon at NASCO Institute 2015.
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This workshop will take the participant through some realities of race and economics in this country, then move on to discussing how to create a more equitable and inclusive co-op movement.
Session materials from "Creating Democratic Money Systems with Local Currencies and Other Alternatives," presented by Adam "Fuzzy" Konner at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Session materials from "Creating a New Co-op - 3 - Incorporation & Bylaws," presented by Corrigan Nadon-Nichols at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Incorporation is the process of making your co-op a legal entity which can own property, take out loans, and enter into contracts. But there are often many choices that can stymie a group's progress: Corporation or LLC? Which tax-exemptions do we want? We will discuss the why and how of incorporating a co-op, with particular attention to creating bylaws for the new organizations.
Session materials from "Cottage Industries: Creating Live/Work Cooperatives," presented by Matthew Keesan at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Session materials from "Cooperative Loan Funds Investing in Cooperative Business," presented by Mark Fick and Maggie Cohn at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Session materials from "Cooperative Governance: A Look at Policy Governance Principles Applied to Student Cooperative Housing," presented by Billy Thogersen and Ashleigh Lassiter at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Session materials from "Cooperating against Rape Culture to Avoid Collective Oppression," presented by Jess Harman at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Session materials from "Campus Cooperative Education for a Resilient Future," presented by Jeff Noven at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Session materials from "Budgets, Governance, and Anti-Oppression," presented by Alfred Twu at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Changing processes and resource allocation can create the structural changes to make cultural changes long lasting. In this workshop we will do a line by line discussion of a few real budgets and policies from the Berkeley Student Cooperative and examine their intended and actual effects on making cooperatives more inclusive. Learn how to draft anti-oppressive policy language and budgeting formulas.