CO Co-opsStudyCircle

A community space in which peers in the Colorado co-op movement come together.

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

It's time again: We're now accepting apps from co-op startups for the next cohort of the @start_coop accelerator! Are you building a co-op:

- to reshape a sector w/ economic justice
- to close racial wealth gaps
- to unlock radical imaginations

Apply: https://t.co/bV1bGpIShz

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

Boulder friends, a unique opportunity to have lunch with activist legend George Lakey: https://t.co/gkmUsOjNOQ Join us!

[Rural Power Now @RuralpowerNow]

The IRA also includes $9.7 billion for a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that will offer grants and forgivable loans to rural electric co-ops pursuing climate-friendly power projects.

Great new piece on the #IRA by @lissaharris in the @timesunion.
https://t.co/Dg4NF63uQl

[CO Co-opsStudyCircle @coloradocoops]

The Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center is seeking a new executive director: https://t.co/QNAIQwZ5p3

This is a critical leadership role in our regional co-op/EO community.

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

I'm thrilled to announce the publication of a new OPEN ACCESS article with Júlia Martins Rodrigues:

Scaling Co-operatives Through a Multi-Stakeholder Network: A Case Study in the Colorado Solar Energy Industry https://t.co/8eaG45UHF2

A few remarks:

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

Learn about what could be a sea change in cooperative financing.

Introducing the Capital for Cooperatives Act - free webinar on 9/20

https://t.co/yTDE6yHJcY

[Media Economies Design Lab @MEDLabBoulder]

Introducing the Capital for Cooperatives Act

A free webinar on Sept. 20 explaining the potential of @Hickenlooper's historic bill in the US Senate, featuring @ldp7744
@dobrien_coop @ccwbdenver @RMFUnion

Register now: https://t.co/pQ5N6hM9sX

[Media Economies Design Lab @MEDLabBoulder]

When you and your friends organize, don't start from scratch.

Order your free copies of
COMMUNITY RULES
a new 44-page pamphlet on basic structures for organizing from MEDLab: https://t.co/UTXnOp7lqv

Offer ends Thursday!

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

Tomorrow, learn how the future of local news is being made in Colorado: https://t.co/VHq7Fy2d5H

Featuring @co_mediaproject @ColoradoSun @the_ntln

[Media Economies Design Lab @MEDLabBoulder]

The future of the news business is being made in Colorado.

Next week, join us for a webinar to learn how we're doing it: https://t.co/1nlD6kdfMl

Hint: Journalists are in charge.

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

Once again, Colorado is leading the way to the new economy. Wanna come along?

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Our own @SenatorHick is introducing the Capital for Cooperatives Act, which will finally enable cooperatives to access SBA loans: https://t.co/61n9l2vD3C

[Media Economies Design Lab @MEDLabBoulder]

This Thursday!

Mutualist Infrastructure: A Conversation with @Sara_Horowitz

We will explore strategies for bringing the mutualist tradition of unions, cooperatives, and more from the margins into the center of economic policy-making.

Register now: https://t.co/Ma91yybSLp

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

This was a phenomenal panel of real-world startups using community ownership to solve real problems. Don't miss it.

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

A radical vision for cooperative cooperation disguised as a draft of a dry case study on @NamasteSolar @AmicusSolar etc.

"Scaling Co-operatives Through a Multi-stakeholder Network: A Case Study in the Colorado Solar Energy Industry" https://t.co/5RLOCh7STs

Feedback please!

[CO Co-opsStudyCircle @coloradocoops]

Upcoming event:
a presentation, conversation, and Q&A about launching a worker-owned workforce cooperative designed to support local producers and processors across Colorado—from @RMFU

https://t.co/iqO3g0jip5

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

Cooperators: You might want to know that there is an office of @ElevationsCU credit union very near where yesterday's attack in Boulder occurred. Let's please show the employees there the co-op movement's support.

@NCBACLUSA @icacoop @CUNA

[Media Economies Design Lab @MEDLabBoulder]

Register now for our 2/26 FREE & OPEN webinar on whether this crazy crypto stuff can be of any use for deep community ownership.

"#ExitToCommunity: Emerging Crypto" https://t.co/bgDUqddkZL

Featuring @BLR13 @fairmint @tryrollhq @jwpcPBC

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

"The Colorado Cooperative Company was a socialist-based ditch company organized in Denver with the intent of establishing a colony for its members." https://t.co/a0Bk0D3QQx

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

The current crisis needs cooperatives. What policy strategies do they need to be ready for it?

Really looking forward to discussing this next week with @WorkerCoop @HazelTCorcoran: https://t.co/B5EoPZNiml

Please join us!

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

Wow, this is haunting: A photo of a cooperative store in a Colorado "relocation center" during World War II: https://t.co/LzV7xghe8k