NASCO Newsletters - 1971
Archived copies of NASCO's monthly "Journal of the New Harbinger" magazine and monthly "NASCO News Bulletin." Printed in 1971.
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Student Cooperatives: Affordable Student Housing
Short educational pamphlet on the history and trajectory of student cooperatives, written by Hilary Greer (former NASCO Executive Director) and Eric Guetschoff (former NASCO Development Coordinator) in the late 1990s.
Table of Contents
Preface
Cooperative Forms
Statement of Cooperative Identity
Movement History
Student Co-ops Today
California Legislation
Tools for Building Community in your Co-op
A Workshop for WestCo 2001- Eugene, Oregon
by Anjanette Bunce (former NASCO Member Services Coordinator)
Table of Contents
2 Statement of Co-operative Identity
3 Campus Co-operatives- A Brief History
4 NASCO Member Services
5 What is Community?
6 Ways to Create Community in Co-ops
7 Developing Community
11 Tips for Building Co-op Spirit
EastCo 2005 Flyer
Flyer from 2005 East Coast regional co-op bash ("EastCo"), hosted in Philadelphia, PA.
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A Sharing Economy Policy Primer For Urban Leaders
This report analyzes current policy practices in cities that impact sharing economies and suggestions alternatives to promote and support sharing economies.
Four Pillars of Cooperative Governance
Four Pillars of Cooperative Governance: A new model grounded in the cooperative difference
by Marilyn Scholl and Art Sherwood
Published in "Cooperative Grocer," Winter 2014
"Great leaders demonstrate how to be a force for good in local communities and beyond. Our cooperative heroes—the Rochdale Pioneers—were
Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade
"This document was considered in draft by the General Assembly of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) in Manchester in October 2012. Following comment and discussion (now reflected in this revised version) the Blueprint was approved by the General Assembly. It is now issued in its final form.
The intention of the General Assembly is that the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives marks the beginning of a worldwide campaign to take the co-operative way of doing business to a new level.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard: Cooperative Economics and Civil Rights Video
What role did economic cooperation play in the civil rights movement? As it turns out, a huge one. This forgotten history is the focus of Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard's recent book Collective Courage: A History of African-American Economic Thought and Practice, out in bookstores in May 2014.
The Laura Flanders show streams from GRITtv.org.
The Case for Cooperatives - Video
Laura Flanders interviews the directors of "Shift Change," Melissa Young & Mark Dworkin.
New Era Windows Cooperative is Now Open For Business - Video
After a lot of labor and learning, the workers who famously occupied the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago in '08 are opening a new cooperative business: New Era Windows. Laura discusses the journey with Brendan Martin of The Working World and three of the worker-owners.To see the full story go to GRITtv.org.