2019 - NASCO Family Annual Report
The Annual Report of the NASCO Family Boards, FYE 2019.
The Annual Report of the NASCO Family Boards, FYE 2019.
Session materials from “Campus Cooperative Education For Community Resilience,” presented by Grace Lihn at NASCO Institute 2016.
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Session materials from “Permaculture in Cooperatives: Practices for Practical Resilience,” presented by Avery Hardy at NASCO Institute 2016.
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This workshop takes us beyond in-person meetings into the world of virtual meeting facilitation. In this slide deck, we will provide best practices for virtual facilitation and tools to build consensus within the group. This includes exercises to try out facilitation tools with group discussions.
This is a discussion guide that offers participants the opportunity to reflect on ways in which the cooperative movement does and does not support indigenous sovereignty, and to brainstorm how co-ops can uplift the land back movement. These slides provide a few discussion prompts and resources to continue the conversation in your co-op.
River City Housing Collective's visual for hand signals. This is reviewed during an information session with prospective members, and whoever is facilitating a meeting where a new member is present will review the hand signals before the meeting starts.
Session materials from “Waste Not, Want Not,” presented by Ken Mills at NASCO Institute 2016.
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The NASCO Plan for Inclusion will continue to grow the organization’s vision for creating a welcoming environment for all of NASCO’s affiliates.
Session materials from “The Importance of Good Stewardship,” presented by Maggie Cohn, Daniel Miller, and Noah Compo at NASCO Institute 2016.
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Co-ops are businesses designed to pool resources to serve a specific economic need of their current and future members. At the same time, co-ops hold a principle of Concern for the Community and often use those pooled resources contributed by individual members to serve as a social safety net for the membership collectively. This is a discussion guide that offers a few discussion prompts and some practices for balancing the tension between these goals.