Registration for the 2013 Eastern Conference for Workplace Democacy is open. This year’s conference will be held July 26th through 28th at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The tentative list of workshops is below. For more information contact [email protected]
Raising Capital for Worker Cooperatives
Roy Messing, Ohio Employee Ownership Center; Rodney North, Equal Exchange and Maggie Cohn, Cooperative Fund of New England
Nicole Marín Baena, Cooperation Texas
Six Necessary Components for Successful Workplace Democracy
Paul Bernstein, Ph.D.
Filling the Cooperative Management Gap via Advisors with Industry Experience
Roy Messing, Ohio Employee Ownership Center
Horizontality: Collective Management for Democratic Workplaces
Esteban Kelly and kiran nigam, Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA)
What does functioning collective management look like?…
How to leverage your invisible capital to help your co-op thrive!
Prof. Chris Rabb, Temple University, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute
Capitalization and Finance for Start-ups and Growth
Melissa Hoover, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Co-ops Aren’t Just Built – They Evolve
Rodney North, Equal Exchange and John Abrams, South Mt. Company
The Way We Do the Things We Do: Healthy People Build Healthy Workplaces
kiran nigam and Jenna Peters-Golden, Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA)
The Co-op Index: A Workplace Audit for Measuring Success in the Cooperative Economy
Jim Johnson, Democracy at Work Network
Lost in the cloud: Protecting online information in the networked age
Antoine Beaupré and Matt Corks, Koumbit Networks
Sharpening the Saw – Creating & Running an In-house Training & Education Program
Rodney North, Equal Exchange; and Adam Trott, Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives
Communications and General Semantics
David Woo, Weavers Way Food Co-op
Reaching Those Who Care: A Curriculum for Building Home Care Co-ops
Teresa Young, Northwest Cooperative Development Center and Karen Kulp, Home Care Associates
Lobbying Update: National Cooperative Development Act
Peter Frank, Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance
Danny Spitzberg, Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive
Incubating worker cooperatives: strategies and challenges
John Duda, The Democracy Collaborative; Vanessa Bransburg, Center For Family Life and Omar Freilla, Green Worker Cooperatives
Hyper-Coops: The Place of Egalitarian Communes in the Cooperative Economy
Paul Blundell, Acorn and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange; Sky Blue, Twin Oaks; Ira Wallace, Twin Oaks and Acorn; Paxus Calta, Twin Oaks and Acorn; Darla Eaton, Acorn and SESE and Jess Little, Twin Oaks and SESE.
Kristen Barker, Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative; Michael Elsas, Cooperative Home Care Associates; Jessica Gordon Nembhard, John Jay College; Bob Noble (moderator), Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance; Deb Olson, Center for Community Based Enterprise and Dennis Olson, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union
Québec Worker Cooperatives and the Ecosystem that Supports Them
Rachael Tanner
Worker-Owned as Workforce & Economic Development Strategy
Sally Stevens, New Orleans Cooperative Development Project
Growing a Resilient City: Possibilities for Collaboration in NYC’s Solidarity Economy
Evan Casper-Futterman, SolidarityNYC and Annie McShiras, Responsible Endowments Coalition and former member of SolidarityNYC
Shift Change Film Screening & Discussion
Rodney North, Equal Exchange and John Abrams, South Mt. Company (hosts)
Emerging Possibilities for New Economies in the South
Ajamu Nangwaya, Ph.D, Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity; Kali Akuno, Jackson People’s Assembly and Ed Whitfield, Fund for Democratic Communities (F4DC)
Not the IRS! Anti-Oppression Audits
Jenna Peters-Golden and Esteban Kelly, Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA)
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