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Dear friends:

As events and gatherings continue to be canceled or postponed in compliance with COVID-19 response measures, the Worker Co-op Conference, scheduled to be held September 11-13 in Philadelphia, is still planned as scheduled.

Our team will continue to monitor COVID-19 response measures in the coming weeks and months to keep you updated on conference news. Please visit www.conference.coop for more information. We hope you can join us in September.

In cooperation,

We are prioritizing the health and safety of our team and are providing flexibility to our staff. We remain fully operational to assist our members and borrowers and have systems in place to maintain operations remotely to support our members during these challenging times.

We know everyone is facing uncertainty, and we are hearing from many of our members about the current and anticipated financial impact of business disruption and closures.

Below is a list of COVID-19 response guides compiled by the Foundation for Intentional Community from other online sources and organizations. These resources are geared towards communities the community-minded individual. We’ll keep updating it regularly during the coming weeks. 

View the resources at the Foundation for Intentional Community

Housing cooperatives and our members are in a unique position during the COVID-19 outbreak to utilize the values and skillsets we've prioritized as a movement: concern for community, responsibility, mutual aid, solidarity, and organization.

NASCO is working to continue our mission to provide resources and encouragement to housing cooperatives across North America during this global crisis. We are shifting our programming to meet the situation, providing space for cooperatives to build and share action plans, and connecting co-ops to resources as needed.

The USFWC is providing a centralized place for their member worker co-ops to share ways people can support them during the pandemic. If you are a USFWC member, you can create a listing for your co-op here.

Based on the CDC’s recommendation to avoid large gatherings of people owing to COVID-19, we feel it is in our community’s best interests to postpone the California Co-op Conference, scheduled for April 26-27 in Sacramento. Although it's disappointing that we won’t be able to convene our California community in April, we feel strongly about prioritizing people’s health and wellness, and are hopeful we can find another time this year for the event. We are currently evaluating options for rescheduling the conference and will

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Dear Cooperators,

We need your help.  These are unprecedented times and difficult for all of our communities.  Adria Powell (president and CEO of Cooperative Home Care Associates) and I are working to try and get home care workers protective surgical masks. Our health care workers are on the front lines and many are having to work without personal protective equipment (PPE).

The concept of community ownership (in this case the community of workers) is fundamentally different from capitalist ownership. The latter seeks to use up assets and resources. It is extractive in nature and anti-communitarian. The former seeks to build a community that transcends the individual and builds a thing of lasting value to society.

Read the rest at The Workers' Paradise

Sociocracy is a great way to facilitate online (and in-person) meetings. This playlist of videos shows the entire process of a meeting using sociocracy. You can get more resources for meeting facilitation by clicking the link below.

Calvin Coolidge, the US President that symbolized the 1920s, has been credited with this statement: “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, ‘press on’ has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.”