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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.
Recruitment and Retention
A guide to member recruitment and retention for student housing co-ops.
Safe Space Guidelines
These guidelines were created by 2007 Action Camp participants and are very adaptable for your co-op meetings.
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.
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
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 Performance Evaluation Sheet
This is a sample evaluation form used by College Houses to provide feedback on the performance of their General Administrator.
Sexual Harassment Flowchart
Flowchart from Berkeley Student Cooperative. "When a member feels harrassed," they should...
Simple Budgets for Smaller Coops
Informal commentary on creating simple, accessible budgets for small coops.