Worker Co-op Week is a virtual conference and meeting space for worker-owners to share skills, organize and connect with peers through leading relevant and thoughtful discussions, panel sessions, presentations and more.

Through a series of educational events, the primary purpose of the event series is to offer participants an in-depth understanding of cooperatives and the solidarity economy landscape at a national and regional level, in order to spark conversations around how to bring solidarity economy initiatives to fruition in their community.

This campaign to convert an 8-plex housing unit at 652 Sherburne (herein “The Sherburne Project”) into a Housing Cooperative will include the co-creation of multicultural education and training materials centered on how to sustain and support a community-owned, democratically-controlled housing cooperative that is affordable and culturally inclusive, while also nurturing the authentic leadership development of local residents.

reate accessible printed materials for our advanced coop development workshops in the form of a workbook. The workbooks are a tool to guide cooperative start up teams with a series of tasks and instructions for success: Practicing Democracy; Sustainable Business Model Canvas; Mission/Purpose; Elements of a Business Plan; Feasibility Plans; Co-op Financials; Start-Up Budgets/Raising Capital/Timebanking; Legal considerations.

UHAB, NYC NoWC, and CEANYC hosted a three-part workshop series that brought together co-op members across that identified multiple opportunities for cross sector cooperatives collaboration. This research phase will draw from the conversations about policy and value chains to develop and support the formation of a stronger citywide cooperative network.

The Up & Coming Food Co-op Conference was created to address the issues facing start-up food co-ops and is the only such conference in the country. Food co-ops serve as important business organizations that contribute to the increase in the density of local food networks. Food co-ops also expand the reach of local food markets to a variety of consumers: from “core” to “periphery” consumers.

The North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship (North Star) is a six-month fellowship focused on Black American Cooperative Economics. The North Star is centered on the history of Black cooperative economic thought and practice. We place priority on applicants who share the ancestry of Enslaved Africans in the United States and place value on their legacy of cooperative economics and collective care.

Comprehensive training programs for staff are lacking in the food co-op environment -the Study Guides used in combination with the Webinar Series will offer an easily available and engaging, yet comprehensive tool to teach staff, co-op boards and potentially member-owners about cooperatives. The Study Guides will take the burden off individual co-ops, particularly smaller co-ops with fewer resources, in creating co-op training materials.