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January 28, 2021

Participatory Proposal Writing

How to write policy proposals as a group.

January 25, 2021

Saving Farmland, Supporting Farmers

Agrarian Trust has started ten Agrarian Commons in the US, in an attempt to make community-supported, collectively stewarded farmland available to younger farmers

January 21, 2021

Cooperative Conversions & Employee Buyouts

For small business owners considering their next steps during the time of COVID-19, or pondering ways to preserve their business legacy as they approach retirement, cooperative conversions - selling a business to its employees - are an increasingly compelling option to retain jobs and keep small businesses in their communities. Baltimore’s nonprofit cooperative lender, The Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy, will lead you through the steps of this process, and answer questions about whether an employee buyout might be right for your business.

January 18, 2021

Cooperation and Chocolate

A community in Colombia is ditching traditional capitalist models in order to build a collective future.

January 14, 2021

A New Landscape for Skill-Sharing

A new landscape for skill-sharing emerges from pandemic aftermath.

January 7, 2021

Assessing Feasibility for Homecare Cooperatives

A webinar on evaluating feasibility studies for homecare worker cooperatives featuring Katrina Kazda and Iwona Matczuk of the ICA Group and Deborah Craig of the Northwest Cooperative Development Center.

January 4, 2021

The DisCO Elements

A guide to distributed cooperative organizations.

December 31, 2020

Navigating Emotional Minefields

One of the defining indicators of the health of cooperative groups is how they respond when strong feelings emerge among members.

December 28, 2020

The Basics of Worker Co-ops

John McNamara discusses the basics of Worker Cooperatives.

December 24, 2020

The Art of the Legal Hack

David Bollier interviews Janelle Orsi of the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) about their work in the cooperative and solidarity economy space in the San Francisco Bay Area.