Community Building

This is from Steve Dubb's workshop on community asset mapping at Institute 2010.

Berkeley Student Cooperative Consent Workshop – 10/21/08, Facilitated by Andy Olson and Daria Garina

The four scenarios focus on staff strategies to member issues: debt and eviction, members making legal threats, members voting as a bloc in their interest, and bad publicity.  The scenarios are part of a workshop presented at the 2009 Staff and Managers Conference.

A guide to developing a sense of community in your co-op

In this article, Tim Wise illustrates how white privilege operates in the U.S. and advocates for white people taking on responsibility & accountability for challenging white supremacy.

This table outlines eight types of oppression: Racism/White Supremacy, Sexism, Gender Oppression, Anti-Semitism, Religious Oppression, Heterosexism/Heterocentrism, Classism, Ableism, and Ageism.

It serves as a useful introduction to the forms that oppression takes in the U.S.

These resources are a work in progress.  Email your feedback to info@nasco.coop.

A handout on ways white people can counteract racism and be allies for people of color.

[Copyright 1994 by John Raible]

A guide to starting out right and building a cohesive co-op home

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