Your friendly organizing team now has the summer Circles all planned out!
? Study circles ?
Funding Colorado Cooperatives Across Race & Class
May 7, 4 p.m., Queen City Cooperative
How can we leverage wealth to build cooperatives across class and race lines? Join the Colorado Cooperative Study Circle to discuss cross-class and interracial forms of organizing, investing in, and funding cooperative enterprises.
Learn more & share it: Meetup / Facebook / Website
The Study Circle Takes on the Association of Co-op Educators Conference
July 18-21, Regis University
A continental co-op conference happening this year at Denver’s own Regis University! Join us to hear several Co-op Study Circle participants speak, as well as a special session devoted to our Study Circle’s challenges and accomplishments.
Learn more & share it: Meetup / Facebook / Website
Governing Community Radio
August 15, KGNU Boulder
KGNU is a beacon of local, community-supported radio in the Front Range area, and it hosts our Study Circle’s monthly Co-op Power Hour show. KGNU’s model has a lot in common with cooperative enterprise. We’ll be joined by Tim Russo, a veteran of community radio networks in Central America who recently joined KGNU as station manager.
Learn more & share it: Meetup / Facebook / Website
? Other stuff ?
Listen to KGNU this Thursday at 6 for the latest episode of our Co-op Power Hour, this time featuring RMEOC’s Halisi Vinson and Colorado Cooperative Developers’ Jason Wiener discussing the ins and outs of co-op conversion. Paul had his first run at co-hosting!
On May 3, Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center is hosting a practical workshop on “Ownership Culture: The Secret Sauce for Success,” part of National Small Business Week. Learn more on Facebook.
At next month’s Boulder Startup week, Nathan will be joined by Jason and Corey Kohn of the brand-new worker co-op dojo4 in a discussion on May 18 called “Startup.coop: How to build a real sharing economy through shared ownership.” Spread the news via our website, the BSW website, and Facebook.
Our website’s directory of Colorado co-ops has just nearly quadrupled in size, thanks to the data from the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. Check it out—is your co-op listed correctly there?
Want to help organize study circles? Write to Nathan at ntnsndr@riseup.net to get plugged in.
In cooperation,
the rag-tag, evolving team of organizers