Resources for Cooperatives

 

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Videos, Courses, and links by others

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G1-SYMatNc

What are Worker Cooperatives

The Laura Flanders Show

from The Laura Flanders Show “A short, practical guide for those considering worker owned cooperatives, made by GRITtv & TESA, the Toolbox for Education and Social Action. Featuring conversations with worker-owners from Union Cab; Ginger Moon; Arizmendi Bakery, Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA); New Era Windows; and more. ”

 

https://www.tesacollective.com/study-guide-to-the-cooperative-movement/

Study Guide to the cooperative movement

Tesa Collective

from Tesa Collective “This guide – while not a complete and total list – provides tools, activities, videos, readings, and more to help you brush up on your cooperative skills and knowledge. Some of these resources are free, some of them have a cost. But all of them will help you better understand what a cooperative is, how to practice cooperation, and the power of the cooperative movement.”

 

https://startcoop.teachable.com/p/lean-co-op

LEAN CO-OP, A FREE COURSE

Start.coop

from startcoop.teachable.com “By combining the best of the values-aligned cooperative ownership with the lean start-up approach we will share with you some of the best practices that entrepreneurs in our accelerator use to lay a solid foundation upon which they can build a robust business. ”

 

Online Self-Paced Courses

L.A. Co-op Lab Academy

from academy.lacooplab.com “Our aim is to advance worker ownership as one way to push back against inequality, gentrification, and the gig economy by helping people who are often excluded from good jobs to collectively create their own and meet community needs. ”

 

https://platform.coop/

Learn About Platform Cooperatives

Platform Cooperative Consortium

from platform.coop “Platform cooperatives are businesses that sell goods or services primarily through a website, mobile app, or protocol. They rely on democratic decision-making and shared platform ownership by workers and users.”

 

https://www.greatgame.com/what-we-do

Build Ownership Culture and democratic practices

The Great Game of Business®

from greatgame.com “Gamify your business to create powerful incentive structures and effective internal processes that serve to motivate, engage, and retain a talented and productive workforce. The Great Game of Business® educates your people in the rules of business, rallies them around a common goal, empowers them to see and improve the score, and engages them by giving them an opportunity to share in the rewards— What we call a Stake in the Outcome®—presenting them with the opportunity to win as a team.”

 

https://www.start.coop/

When you’re ready to scale : Accelerator

start.coop

from start.coop “Our accelerator selects the most promising teams from across the United States and provides them with training and support embedded in our rigorous business curriculum and world-class mentor community.

Start.coop is supporting a new generation of entrepreneurs who are expanding ownership in business sectors ranging from healthcare to the gig economy. We prioritize businesses that create wealth for people of color, women, immigrants and other marginalized populations.”

 

Co-op Clinic - technical assistance services

United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives

from usworker.coop “The USFWC Co-op Clinic has a network of peer advisors, all with strong social and professional ties, who provide technical assistance services to worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces. 

Though we can support you in all-around small business areas, we specialize in technical assistance that cooperatives need specifically: decision-making, co-op finances, boards, bylaws and more.”

 

https://jrwiener.com/courses/community-enterprise-legal-design/

To Help you think about YOUR legal entity

jason wiener | p.c.

from jrwiener.com “Welcome to our first online course, Community Enterprise Legal Design. This self-directed course has videos, articles, worksheets, and activities designed to help you develop your business plan and organizational canvas before engaging us. Every month, we field many inquiries from promising startups that are interested in shared governance and broad-based ownership structures, but are not ready to work with a lawyer yet. We have developed these free resources to help you self-educate and refine the concept with your founding team as much as possible before engaging our services. Consider this legal design service a necessary prerequisite for working with a cooperative law attorney or a legal entity designer.

We will cover a variety of design considerations for cooperatives as well as other multi-stakeholder and community-oriented ownership models, such as cooperative corporations, limited cooperative associations, limited liability companies, public benefit corporations, non-profit corporations, and associations.”

 

MARKETING RESOURCES

FCI Live: Co-op Graphics Toolkit

Food Co-op Initiative with Rachel DB Creative

Join Rachel Dominguez-Benner for the reveal of a new set of irresistibly shareable co-op education tools. Focusing on the foundational cooperative principles with vibrant graphics and approachable language – you’ll want to make ‘em your own. After a power-walkthrough of the graphics and tools, Rachel will lead a tutorial on the basic skills you need to customize any and all of the graphics in the free online design app Canva. These graphics, created in collaboration with FCI, will be free and available to all on FCI’s website and can be used just as Rachel has designed them, or, using the skills shared in this session, you can customize them to your community!

 

FCI Live: Content calendars make the magic happen

Food Co-op Initiative with Rachel DB Creative

Calling outreach, marketing, and our member-data peeps to workshop a communications toolkit in-the-making! Rachel Dominguez-Benner is inviting FCI Live into their creative process in breaking down a co-op’s big idea community event into the small, actionable (and repeatable) steps that can be put on a calendar and shared with others. This session is one part behind-the-scenes, two parts collective wisdom, and one part creative connection exercise – bring your lived experience, your current communications curiosities, and your favorite way to capture really good ideas as we work on content calendars, for reaching out.