More than 50 co-op and credit union communicators from across Canada participated in the Canadian Co-operative Association's recent social media webinar.
The webinar, which took place on November 22 and 23, provided an introduction to such social media tools as Facebook and...
The purpose of this Guide is to help you navigate the financial planning and marketing process for your co-op. There is really no distinction between what your business plan and/or financing proposals need in order to get approved by financiers and what your co-op...
-Founding and Long Term Members -Retirement Security -Relinquishing member/ownership and it benefits -Worker Co-operative -New Members -Viability -Cash Flow -Debt Load -...
New Guide Supports Worker Co-op Formation and Expansion Developed by the Northcountry Cooperative Foundation (Minnesota), the Worker Co-op Toolbox provides a new set of resources to assist potential worker...
A presentation on pricing for profit from the CWCF's AGM 2006.
Excerpt:
Objective: -To gain an understanding of the basics of pricing in order to determine at what level of sales at a particular price, will enough revenue be produced to generate the wages and profits...
The attached pdf, by CooperativesUK, is a booklet which seeks to practically implement the ICA World Declaration on Worker Ownership. The link is a longer version of the same containing other resources as well. "The booklet is intentionally short. It focuses on the core features of a...
Sweat equity is generally considered all the voluntary unpaid work that is often required in the first years of a new business. This work is usually unpaid because the new business cannot afford to pay wages or salaries during start-up. The...
(1) Educate the supporters of the buyout. Supporters may include all of the hourly and salaried employees as well as local management. Frequently, in situations involving an organized workforce, those employees protected by a union contract are the initial proponents.
