Regional Food Systems
These resources are from Eric DeLuca's workshop on regional food systems at NASCO Institute 2010.
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Reducing Staff Workload Through Effective Member Participation
This is a PowerPoint presentation and handout from a workshop at the 2009 Staff and Managers Conference.
Leadership Cycle
Finding good leaders in a student co-op is not an accidental process. If your methods for finding and nurturing new leaders are haphazard and less than successful you must institute change or the future of your co-op is at stake. Good leaders are not found, they are grown. Potential leaders must be identified early in their time in the co-op, they must be encouraged and nurtured. Most of all they must be rewarded for their involvement through success and recognition.
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Land Rights and Nonviolence
These handouts were contributed by Will Travers for a two-part workshop on Land Rights and Nonviolence at NASCO's 2008 Cooperative Education and Training Institute. Part One covers the Land Gift Movement in India and Part Two covers Nonviolent Action in Modern Movements.
Join a Community or Start One?
This resource was contributed by Laird Schaub for a workshop at NASCO's 2008 Cooperative Education and Training Institute.
Table of Contents
1. Pioneers vs. Settlers-Personality Profiles
2. The Queen Bee Syndrome-Challenges of Leadership
3. Location, location, location
4. Reinventing the Wheel vs. Wagging the Dog
5. Summary of Pros & Cons
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How to Design Successful Community Workshops
This is an outline for a training called 'Ready to Train? How to Design Successful Community Workshops'
Workshop Objective: Participants will learn the basics of popular education theory and training design to ensure that they have the basic skills needed to run effective community trainings.
Core Competencies: Core competencies will include respect for the learner as teacher, commitment to variation of participatory training methods, and willingness to use a training design model to plan an effective training.
Hosting Regional Co-op Conferences
Planning a regional conference is a significant undertaking that takes planning, delegation, and lots of work. These documents present some ideas that will help you think about how to tackle all the work in an efficient manner. For examples of previous regional conference materials, see the archive of WestCo materials here.
GIS Basics
These handouts are from David Arfa's workshop at Institute 2010. You can download a mapping program for uDig, and use the directions to start your own mapping projects!
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Getting Incorporated
These resources were contributed by Attorney David "Rosebud" Sparer as a resource for housing co-op organizers looking to incorporate as a non-profit or a cooperative.
Cooperative Leadership
These materials orignated in a workshop at Institute 2011 presented by Erin Hancock and Kim Penna.