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Nonviolent Communication

This packet is full of useful tools for learning about and practicing nonviolent communication. This resource was created by: The Center for Nonviolent Communication (www.cnvc.org), 5600 San Francisco Rd. NE Suite A, Albuquerque, NM 87109, Tel: +1.505.244.4041. "We share our material freely and we appreciate donations. A contribution that reflects your appreciation of what we offer and the value you receive will be used to further the development and distribution of Nonviolent Communication.

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Nonviolent_communication.pdf

Normative Gender Privileges

A checklist of privileges that apply to men and women who conform to cultural gender norms.

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Normative Gender Privilege.doc

Parliamentary Procedure

This document provides a guide to parliamentary procedure; what is it? how does it work? what are its advantages and disadvantages?

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Parliamentary Procedure.doc

Popular Education

Education for Social Change, an excerpt from 'Educating for a Change.'

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Popular Education Resources.pdf

Preserving Affordability for Future Generations: The NASCO Model

This presentation was given by Steve Dubb of the Democracy Collaborative at NASCO's 2008 Cooperative Education and Training Institute.

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Preserving Affordability - The NASCO Model.ppt

Recruitment and Retention

A guide to member recruitment and retention for student housing co-ops.

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Recruitment and Retention.doc

Safe Space Guidelines

These guidelines were created by 2007 Action Camp participants and are very adaptable for your co-op meetings.

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Action Camp 2007-Safe Space Guidelines for Participants.doc

Safe Space: A Tool for Allowing Deep and Consensed Dialogue

You can use this tool creatively, adapting the intensity of the 4 basic principles to different situations, depending on the level of risk being taken in each setting. Some components of these tools may be inappropriate for some settings, and invaluable in others. The more personal risk involved, the more carefully you want to frame the space at the outset, because a secure anchor is the only thing that will enable a process to fly to the heights of its potential.

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SAFE SPACE.doc

Safe Space Tools and Principles.pdf

Sample Articles of Incorporation

One of the first steps to getting your coop incorporated is to write articles of incorporation for your state. Most states deal with this through the office of the Secretary of State, but a few don't. Articles themselves, though, are a fairly simple document, even if the whole thing is in legalese. One thing about Articles of Incorporation is that they are a brief document, and you can read through them in just a minute or so. The contents are simple enough that you should be able to get an idea of what you would need to change in reading them, and then those changes can be run by

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Sample Articles of Incorporation.pdf

Sample Co-op Bylaws

These sample bylaw can give you an idea of some simple boilerplate language for incorporating your coop. Of course, a coop should get these bylaws looked at before submitting them, but these should give you a good idea of what you may want to do, and let you change things where you need to do so in order to make these match your needs.

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Sample Bylaws.doc