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Worker Co-ops 101

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12pm - 3pm Eastern Time
$10 - $20

The price of this course is reduced thanks to a grant from the CHS Foundation.

Get to know the basics of worker cooperatives, how they work and what they do, from management to the everyday practice of cooperation. Worker cooperatives are democratically and equally owned by the workers, and adhere to the principles of one worker, one share, one vote. Through activities, guided readings, and facilitated conversations with worker-cooperative professionals and other students, participants will become familiar with how co-ops work and the growing worker-cooperative movement.

You will receive a certificate upon completion of the course.

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Highlights:

  • Learn with co-op educators, developers, and co-op professionals
  • Develop an understanding of cooperatives and the cooperative economy
  • Learn about and participate in the burgeoning cooperative movement

TESA has developed a wide range of educational resources and programs that have been implemented on local, regional, national, and even international levels. Our cooperative work includes creating Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives; fostering nearly 100 workshops around the country in 2012; coordinating Cultivate.Coop; working with four different organizations on cooperative incubation programs; leading cooperative courses at Greenfield Community College; and much more.

 

Worker Co-ops 101

tesa_academy.gif

12pm - 3pm Eastern Time
$10 - $20

The price of this course is reduced thanks to a grant from the CHS Foundation.

Get to know the basics of worker cooperatives, how they work and what they do, from management to the everyday practice of cooperation. Worker cooperatives are democratically and equally owned by the workers, and adhere to the principles of one worker, one share, one vote. Through activities, guided readings, and facilitated conversations with worker-cooperative professionals and other students, participants will become familiar with how co-ops work and the growing worker-cooperative movement.

You will receive a certificate upon completion of the course.

This course will be offered again on June 19th.

Register now

Highlights:

  • Learn with co-op educators, developers, and co-op professionals
  • Develop an understanding of cooperatives and the cooperative economy
  • Learn about and participate in the burgeoning cooperative movement

TESA has developed a wide range of educational resources and programs that have been implemented on local, regional, national, and even international levels. Our cooperative work includes creating Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives; fostering nearly 100 workshops around the country in 2012; coordinating Cultivate.Coop; working with four different organizations on cooperative incubation programs; leading cooperative courses at Greenfield Community College; and much more.

 

Creating A Cooperative Food Economy

4pm - 7pm Eastern Time
$10 - $20

The price of this course is reduced thanks to a grant from the CHS Foundation.

Explore cooperative business models and their various forms of democratic ownership in this course. Students will develop a course-long project to create and develop a local co-op enterprise. The projects will focus on strengthening food security, sustainability, community ownership, and/or food access.

Throughout this process, students will receive mentorship from TESA teachers, co-op professionals working in the food economy, and their fellow students. Interactive classes, online tools, and guest speakers will inform students’ understanding of the local food economy and help them develop a cooperative enterprise that makes sense for their region or focus

You will receive a certificate upon completion of this course.

Register now

Highlights:

  • Work with cooperative experts and cooperative educators
  • Learn hands on skills in cooperative business development
  • Cultivate democratic meeting and management skills
  • Learn about and participate in the burgeoning cooperative movement
  • Develop your own cooperative and create a plan to move it forward
  • Shape the class to fit your needs and interests

TESA has developed a wide range of educational resources and programs that have been implemented on local, regional, national, and even international levels. Our cooperative work includes creating Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives; fostering nearly 100 workshops around the country in 2012; coordinating Cultivate.Coop; working with four different organizations on cooperative incubation programs; leading cooperative courses at Greenfield Community College; and much more.

This course is adapted from the Farm & Food Cooperatives course developed for Greenfield Community College.

 

Exploring the Mesh: Sharing Economy & Social Innovation

12pm - 1pm Eastern Time

Traditional businesses follow a simple formula: create a product or service, sell it, collect money. But in the last few years a fundamentally different model has taken root-one in which people have more choices, more tools, more information, and more peer-to-peer power. Pioneering entrepreneur Lisa Gansky calls it The Mesh and reveals why it will soon dominate the future of business and civic innovation. Sharing, while not new, has gained market and social power once enabled by technology. A cornerstone of the Mesh is Unused value - Waste.

During our April webinar, we will discuss with Lisa how this shift in business models is taking place and what impact it is having and will have on society itself. How do we encourage deeper exploration of the opportunity The Mesh represents? On the flip side, are there unintended outcomes of such a shift and how can we prepare for them? 

Mesh or Sharing Economy companies use social media, wireless networks, and data crunched from every available source to provide people with goods, services and talent at the exact moment they need them, without the burden and expense of owning them outright. Lisa reveals how there is real money to be made and trusted brands and strong communities to be built in helping your customers buy less but use more. These ventures, organizations and programs are healthier for the planet, strengthen communities and generate new types of two-sided marketplaces. 

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Lisa Gansky is an entrepreneur, investor, speaker and author of the bestselling book, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing and the chief instigator of Mesh Labs www.meshing.it - a global index for the sharing economy. She works in the design of new products, policies, services, partnerships and models in which ‘access’ to goods, services and talent triumphs over the ownership of them’.

Community Branding

4pm - 5pm Eastern Time

Your community isn’t Anywhere, USA. It has stories to tell—tales of historic moments, epic failures, innovative products, resilient businesses and colorful people. How can your community take its most distinct stories and turn them into a compelling and unified message?

Community branding brings local stories and sentiments to the surface, highlighting unique assets that make a place great.

On May 8, Ben Muldrow of Arnett Muldrow & Associates will join CommunityMatters® and the Citizen’s Institute on Rural Design™ for an hour-long webinar on community branding. Ben will share his experience in working with small towns and rural places to create a strong brand that supports community and economic development outcomes.

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Director Resource Development and Communications

Crossroads International is advancing the rights of women and girls and reducing poverty in some of the poorest countries in the world.  We do this with the support of hundreds of volunteers.  Together we are leveraging expertise, networks and dollars to create a more just and sustainable world.  Crossroads has invested in a professional fundraising program and the results are paying off.  Today, Crossroads is raising approximately one-million annually.  We are seeking a dynamic fundraising professional to help take our program to the next level.

Compensation: 
Deadline: 
5 May 2014
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Website: 
https://cintl.org/
Region: 
Ontario

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