A short, practical guide for those considering worker owned cooperatives, made by GRITtv & 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. Educational kits for use with the doc are available at: http://store.toolboxfored.org/own-the-change/
Program guide for NASCO Institute 2015, "Common Interest: Co-ops Investing in Community Wealth."
The cover art for the 2015 NASCO Institute poster and brochure was generously created by Roan Boucher. Roan is a multimedia artist and a worker-owner at the consulting and facilitation cooperative AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance). To learn more about Roan's art, visit www.roanboucher.com; to learn more about AORTA, visit www.aorta.coop.
Session materials from "Womxn & Wealthbeing," presented by Scarlett McIntosh and Alexandria Collins at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Session materials from “Co-op Staff Evaluations,” presented by Rek Kwawer and Daniel Miller at NASCO Institute 2016.
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This session provides an overview of the various reasons to perform staff evaluations, best practices for creating a just and effective evaluation process, and tips to create a positive culture around evaluations.
Session materials from "Budgets, Governance, and Anti-Oppression," presented by Alfred Twu at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Changing processes and resource allocation can create the structural changes to make cultural changes long lasting. In this workshop we will do a line by line discussion of a few real budgets and policies from the Berkeley Student Cooperative and examine their intended and actual effects on making cooperatives more inclusive. Learn how to draft anti-oppressive policy language and budgeting formulas.
Session materials from "The Critical Role of Women in U.S. Cooperative History and Lessons for Today's Work," presented by Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo at NASCO Institute 2015.
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