Schedule 

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Thursday, August 5
7pm-9pm - Coop Film Festival at The Dark Room
 

Friday, August 6
Throughout the day - Registration and Checkin
9am-12pm - Hidden History and Worker Cooperative Tours
                         (Arizmendi, Radical Media, Oakland Black Economic History)
12pm-1pm - Boxed lunch pickup
12:15pm-5pm - USFWC Member Meeting
                        Hidden History and Worker Cooperative Tours
                        (Food Systems, Labor History Bike Tour, Queer History Walking Tour of SF)
6:30-7:30pm - OPENING SPEAKER: Jim Hightower on Worker Cooperatives and Economic Populism
7:30pm-9pm -  Kickoff Reception
9pm-midnight - Party at the Li Po Lounge

Saturday, August 7
8am - Breakfast
9am-10:30am - Workshop Session 1
Bringing Your Idea to Fruition Part 1: What is a Worker Coop?
Cooperating on Campus: Student-LedWorker Cooperativess
How to Read a Balance Sheet
Raising the floor for Working Women and Their Families: the WAGES model of worker cooperative development
Creating an Apprentice Program
Structured Discussion: The Deeper Meaning of Cooperation

10:40am- 12:15pm
Welcome to the Bay Area: NoBAWC, USFWC
Hello, Cleveland! Evergreen's Place-Based Strategy for Worker Cooperative Development
Speaker: Ted Howard, Evergreen Cooperatives

12:15pm- 1:15pm: LUNCH
DISCUSSION: Worker Coops as an Asset-Building Tool - Ted Howard, Hilary Abell, Heather McCulloch

1:30-3:30pm: Workshop Session 2
Cooperativism, the Informal Economy, and Community Engagement: Worker Coop Solutions to Community Challenges
Bringing Your Idea to Fruition Part 2: Going into Depth with Your Plan
Getting the Coop Work Done: Structures and Models
Creating Spaces that Help Us Thrive: Preventing Burnout and Promoting Mental Health
Large Group Conflict Resolution: Fight the Good Fight, Better!
How to Talk to Your Lender

3:45-4:30pm
Youth Can Become Their Own Bosses! The Toxic Soil Busters Show You How
SPEAKERS: Janice Nyamekye, Patricia Feraud,  Toxic Soil Busters Cooperative

4:45-6:15
Workshop Session 3
Economics from the Grassroots: social justice groups building worker democracy - successes and lessons learned
Worker Cooperatives and Unions: A Strategy to Create Jobs and Union Members
Accountability, Evaluations and Grievance Process
Run an Effective Meeting: Facilitation Training
Youth are the Leaders: Youth-Led Cooperatives in High Schools and Beyond
Structured Discussion: Community-Supported Cooperatives

6:30-8pm - Dinner and Awards Banquet
8-11pm - Party and Fundraiser at Clark Kerr Center

Sunday, August 8
8am-9am - Breakfast

9am-11am: Workshop Session 4
Ask an Expert: Get Answers to Your Legal and Accounting Questions
Education, Engagement, Everyone: Models and Solutions for Fostering Education in Your Co-op
Developing Compassion, Self-Empowerment and Cooperation
Privilege, Oppression and Workplace Democracy: The People's Food Coop story of fostering anti-oppression analysis within a workplace
Work Culture and Work Space: Sexual Harrassment and Assault in the Workplace
Structured Discussion: Anti-Capitalism, A Love Story

11:10am- 12:10pm
A Vision for Education: Teachers Cooepratives
Speaker: Dee Thomas, EdVisions Cooperative and Minnesota New Country School

12:15pm- 1:15pm: LUNCH
DISCUSSION TABLES (optional):  CA Worker Coop Statute, Continuing Educational Opportunities, Regional organizing

1:25-2:55pm: Workshop Session 5
Ask an Expert: One on One Consultations
Healthcare and Retirement Benefits for Cooperative Members
Goodbye Wall St, Hello to coop equity financing with worker control: the Equal Exchange experience
Desarollo de cooperativas: Reclutamiento de membresía (en espanol)
Marketing the Coop Advantage
Cooperative-led and -funded Development: The Staff Project of VAWC

3:15-4:45pm: Workshop Session 6
Building Intergenerational Cooperatives
Introducing the Coop Index
Putting it Together: A Functional Organizational Model
Creative Financing for Your Worker Cooperative
How to Be a Peer Advisor

5-6pm: CLOSING

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