Past Events Archive

Selling Your Business to an Employee-Owned Co-operative: Doing the Deal

February 25, 10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
Webinar

Learn the nuts and bolts of selling your business to a co-operative at this webinar. Tax, legal, and financial issues will be covered. Presenter: Mark Stewart, Shumaker Loop & Kendrick. Free webinar, and recordings available afterward. For more information, visit:
http://www.oeockent.org/index.php/successionplanning/resources/webinars

Issues as an Employee-Owner Co-operative Matures

February 23, 10 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Free webinar

In many ways, employee-owned co-operatives are just like any other business; in other ways they are not, especially as they mature. Managing growth, integrating new employees/owners, and more will be covered in this webinar. Presenter: Leslie Schaller, ACEnet. Free webinar, and recordings available afterward. For more details, visit: http://www.oeockent.org/index.php/successionplanning/resources/webinars

How do co-ops help you live your values?

Spring - TBD
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

A panel discussion and Q&A at Hampshire College with local co-operators on the cooperative experience/difference. Sponsored by CDI. Free and open to the public.

Starting a Food Co-op? What you need to know!

Feb. 16-April 27, 2010, every two weeks, 2 p.m.
Webinar

CDS Consulting Co-op and the Food Co-op 500 program present this series of six internet-based workshops. Free, but registration is required. To learn more about the series and register, visit: http://www.cdsconsulting.coop/startup-webinar

Mid-Atlantic Alliance of Cooperatives Youth Leadership Development

February - April

The Cooperative Business and Leadership Training (BLT) program is designed to create an understanding of business, cooperatives, and entrepreneurial skills among older teens within a workshop-learning environment that fosters team building and leadership development. Held across Pennsylvania, the workshops are the first step to learning about cooperatives.
For workshop locations, click: http://maacooperatives.org/id20.html

Farmers Market Boot Camp I & II

December 16, 2009
Indianapolis, IN

Indiana Cooperative Development Center sponsors the Farmers Market Boot Camp at the Marion County Extension Office, 6640 Intech Blvd, Indianapolis, IN.

2009 Indiana Cooperative Summit

November 10, 2009
Hendrix County, IN

The 2009 Indiana Cooperative Summit will be November 10, 2009 at the Hendrix County 4-H Fairgrounds. Check here for more information.

National Farmer Cooperatives Conference

November 9 -10, 2009
Saint Paul, MN

Twelfth Annual Farmer Cooperatives Conference

Additional information about the conference will be posted as it becomes available. Please check this webpage regularly for updates.

NCBA 15th Annual Conference for Purchasing Cooperatives

September 13 - 16, 2009
Austin, TX

The Cooperative Advantage in Challenging Times

NCBA’s purchasing conference is the only conference covering the issues that affect purchasing cooperative executives, and professionals.

Western Worker Co-op Conference

September 7 - 10, 2009
Breitenbush, OR

After a successful 2007 conference in urban Portland, the Western Worker Co-op Conference will move back to its historic woodland location at Breitenbush Hot Springs in 2009. The conference will run September 7-9, with an extra day of intensive sessions on the 10th. Make sure to save Labor Day to connect with your worker co-op colleagues from the West!