Events
Monthly Introduction to Employee Ownership Webinars
Transform your business with employee ownership. Whether you’re a business owner preparing to retire or an owner searching for a way to retain jobs, develop leadership, and build wealth, employee ownership can help you move your business forward. Learn more at our introductory webinars on the last Wednesday of every month. There will be time for Q&A at the end of every session.
Please register below to attend.
- Register here for the May 1st Social Cooperative Academy
- Register here for the May 29th Intro Webinar from 1 – 2pm MT
- Register here for the June 26th Intro Webinar from 1 – 2pm MT
- Register here for the July 31st Intro Webinar from 1 – 2pm MT
Upcoming Events
The Social Cooperative Academy
Social coops have been very successful in other countries over the last three decades, but despite the advantages, they are still almost unknown here in the U.S.!
Social coops are like social enterprises (i.e, community-benefit businesses) but they combine the nature of “cooperatives” with a “social” purpose to advance public benefits. They are also well-suited to creating quality jobs in dignified workplaces for people coming from marginalized communities or difficult backgrounds.
Beginning on Wednesday, May 1, we will be hosting a series of eight weekly virtual sessions for our first Social Co-op Academy. Each session will run from 1 to 2 PM MT.
Some key topics for the sessions will be:
- Learning from success: examples of social co-ops in northern Italy, Quebec, and South Korea
- Social co-ops and the care economy (child care, elder care, disabled care, etc.)
- The tools of social franchising and what they offer
- Legal/corporate questions
- Where’s the money? (Financing challenges)
Speakers will include John Restakis, Katrina Kazda, Joseph Cureton, Maru Bautista, Mo Manklang, Matthew Epperson, and our ED, Minsun Ji.
Tuition for the SCA is a recommended donation of $200 for the full series or $20 per session. For more info, contact Elias Crim at elias@rmeoc.org.
Dates and Topics
All sessions last one hour, from 1 -2 pm MDT/3-4pm EST via Zoom.
Language: English and Spanish
- May 1: Introduction to Social Co-ops (John Restakis, Minsun Ji, Matthew Epperson)
- May 8: Experiences of Practitioners (Katrina Kazda, Genevieve Sheridan)
- May 15: Looking at Legal/Corporate Questions (Jerome Hughes)
- May 22: The Promise of Social Franchising (Maru Bautista, Minsun Ji)
- May 29: Other Social Care Sectors–Disabled Care, Healthcare (Cindy Liu, and others)
- June 5: Where’s the Financing? (Joseph Cureton)
- June 12: What Public Policies Do We Need? (Mo Manklang)
- June 19: What Are Our Next Steps? (Elias and Matthew)