Featuring: Cooperative Fundamentals!
CCCD’s 2021 conference focuses on Cooperative Fundamentals: webinar sessions traverse our Cooperative Roots, Explore Resources for Cooperatives, and offer Introductions to the Many and Innovative Ways Cooperatives are used to Empower Economic Justice.
Sessions introduce newbies to cooperatives and provide an opportunity for cooperators to broaden their knowledge of different types of cooperatives. Webinar workshops will also explore the Cooperative Ecosystem by discussing the resource organizations that support cooperatives. Webinars will convene live to promote discussion and participant interaction. Afterwards, these webinars will be edited for enduring use in a library of online educational sessions.
Join us for one or more of the following sessions - registration is free.
We look forward to exploring cooperative fundamentals with you!!
Upcoming Webinars
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Childcare Co-ops: Addressing the Mutual Needs of Parents and Workers
TBD
Presenter: E. Kim Coontz (CCCD)
The pandemic crystalized the fact that childcare is essential to the workforce participation of parents. But even before the pandemic, Californians faced a childcare crisis, brought on by shortages of licensed care, high costs, and unequal access. Meanwhile, childcare workers are so poorly paid that they are forced to leave the field even when they enjoy caring for children. The workshop will share various models of cooperative childcare and focus on the benefits of a multi-stakeholder model where parents and workers co-govern the cooperative to the benefit of families and workers.
Co-op Funders Panel
TBD
Moderator: E. Kim Coontz (CCCD)
Co-op Lenders Panel discusses financing options for worker and consumer food cooperatives from the initial phase grant/seed funding to conventional or guaranteed loan programs. Representatives from different lending sources share the sources available, terms and structures, as well as the fundamentals of credit, underwriting, and loan process.
Past Webinars
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Childcare Co-ops: Addressing the Mutual Needs of Parents and Workers
TBD
Presenter: E. Kim Coontz (CCCD)
The pandemic crystalized the fact that childcare is essential to the workforce participation of parents. But even before the pandemic, Californians faced a childcare crisis, brought on by shortages of licensed care, high costs, and unequal access. Meanwhile, childcare workers are so poorly paid that they are forced to leave the field even when they enjoy caring for children. The workshop will share various models of cooperative childcare and focus on the benefits of a multi-stakeholder model where parents and workers co-govern the cooperative to the benefit of families and workers.
Co-op Funders Panel
TBD
Moderator: E. Kim Coontz (CCCD)
Co-op Lenders Panel discusses financing options for worker and consumer food cooperatives from the initial phase grant/seed funding to conventional or guaranteed loan programs. Representatives from different lending sources share the sources available, terms and structures, as well as the fundamentals of credit, underwriting, and loan process.
Co-op Patronage (Covering How it Works in Ag, Food, and Worker Co-ops)
Thursday, August 26; 10:30 am-12:00 pm PST
Presenter: Jamie Duong (CCCD)
Guest Speaker: Tamah Yisrael (Resolve Co-op & TMH Financial & Management Solutions)
Co-op Patronage 101 offers an introduction to the concept of co-op patronage. Starting with a review of the basics (what is patronage and how does it work?), we will then explore the different methods of tracking and calculating patronage across multiple co-op sectors.
Food Co-ops Promoting Food Security
Thursday, July 15; 10:00-11:30 am PST
Moderator: Cameron Ottello (CCCD)
Guest Speakers: Kasey Main (San Luis Obispo Food Co-op), Rebecca Torpie (BriarPatch Food Co-op), & Joel Haney (Chico Natural Foods Co-op)
Embodying cooperative Principle 7: Concern for Community, food co-ops regularly go above and beyond in promoting food security to their member owners, local farms, and the communities they reside in. How can co-ops be nimble and respond quickly to emergencies and rapidly changing environments to protect food access and pathways?
Worker Co-op Farms as a Solution to Retaining Local Farms (English recording)
Granjas cooperativas de trabajadores como soluciones para retener granjas locales
Thursday, July 1; 10:00-11:30 am PST
Moderator: Cameron Ottello (CCCD)
Guest Speakers: Joaquin Jimenez (Rancho San Benito Farm/Half Moon Bay City Council), Liya Schwartzman (California FarmLink), & Lucy O'Dae (Flying V Farm)
This webinar was presented simultaneously in both English and Spanish
The workshop will focus on keeping local family farms in local hands and continuous production by allowing retiring farmers to sell their farm to farmers who will own and cultivate the land using the worker cooperative model. Cooperative ownership can address the high cost of farmland and allow farms to remain locally owned and farmed.
Este taller se centrará en mantener las granjas familiares locales en manos locales y producción continua al permitir que los agricultores que se jubilan vendan su granja a los agricultores que poseerán y cultivarán la tierra utilizando el modelo de cooperativa de trabajadores. La propiedad cooperativa puede hacer frente al alto costo de las tierras agrícolas y permitir que las granjas sigan siendo propiedad y granjas locales.
Worker Co-ops for a More Equitable Economy
Thursday, June 24; 10:00-11:30 am PST
Presenter: Pedro Maturana-Figueroa (CCCD) & Jamie Duong (CCCD)
Guest Speaker: Hilary Abell (Project Equity)
Worker cooperatives create more equitable workplaces, provide solutions to a variety of problems across different industries, and pave the way for a more just economy. The workshop will include a discussion of the role of cooperatives in retaining local businesses and jobs through the employee purchase of businesses from owners who are looking to retire. Content will also cover how worker cooperative in the homecare industry simultaneously improve pay and working conditions while providing high quality care to elders and disabled adults who need their services.
Cooperative Solutions to California's Housing Crisis
Thursday, June 10; 9:00-10:30 am PST
Presenters: E. Kim Coontz (CCCD) & Erin Lapeyrolerie (Goldfarb & Lipman LLP)
Cooperative housing models, particularly Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives (LEHCs), present an effective and creative approach to addressing California’s affordability and availability crisis. Cooperatives create new opportunities for ownership and are effective in preserving naturally occurring affordable housing, as in resident owned manufactured home parks. Focusing on LEHCs, the workshop makes the case for how and why this model makes sense from the policy perspective, while promoting economic justice in the housing sector. Includes a discussion of important legal considerations. Various financing mechanisms will also be presented, including ROC Capital & MPRROP.
This activity is approved for 1.5 MCLE credit hours by the State Bar of California.
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