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Guided Tour

Cooperatives

• Types of Cooperatives
• Worker Cooperatives
• Consumer cooperative
• Food cooperative
• Multi-stakeholder cooperatives

Starting a cooperative

• Reasons to start a cooperative
• Steps to starting a cooperative
• Forms of incorporation
• Conversions to cooperatives
• Creating a shared vision
• Budget sources for a start-up cooperative
  • Foundations and Grantors for Co-op Development

Governance

• Organization structure
• Committee charters
• Meeting Facilitation
  • Roles of a Meeting Facilitator
  • Agenda Planning
  • Meeting Minutes
  • Holding effective meetings
    • Deciding how to decide
    • Consensus decision making
    • Methods for assessing level of agreement
    • Conflict resolution in co-operatives

Cooperatives and Social/Economic Change

• Community Economic Development and Cooperatives
• Anti-Oppression Resources for Cooperatives

Cooperative History and Movement

• History of Cooperatives in the United States

Cooperative Philosophy

• Seven Cooperative Principles
• Cooperative Values
• Cooperative Economics