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Resource library

Resource Library

Ongoing learning is central to our cooperative practice. As the solidarity economy grows, we continue to share our learnings with one another. These resources have been compiled by our organization’s working group members in collaboration with our movement partners.

Introduction to Cooperation New Orleans Loan Fund

Webinar from 2022 in collaboration with Office of Economic Development

City of New Orleans

Worker Owned Coops

Video

Co-op Incubator toolkit

This is an open source document that is for co-op businesses to use for their own learning and development

Detroit Community Wealth Fund

Worker Owned Coops

Guides/Toolkits

Co-op Clinic - Conflict and Accountability in Worker Coops

Here are some suggested systems and resources to help you be prepared

US Federation of Worker Co-ops

Worker Owned Coops

Guides/Toolkits

Learning to Think Outside the Boss

An Introductory Workshop on the Legal Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Worker Cooperative!"Find resources we've created to teach about how the law works in, against, and for worker cooperatives.

Sustainable Economies Law Center

Worker Owned Coops

Guides/Toolkits

Co-op Clinic Mini Guide Series

A series of short guides on the fundamentals of worker ownership. These mini guides are topical guides for worker co-ops and democratic workplaces prepared by the USFWC's Co-op Clinic.

US Federation of Worker Cooperatives

Worker Owned Coops

Guides/Toolkits

Guía de Educación Financiera para Cooperativas LLC (Financial Guide for Cooperative LLCs)

Culturally-competent, somatically grounded Spanish-only guide for cooperative financial literacy, focused on immigrant cooperatives

Colmena Cooperative Consulting Cooperative

Worker Owned Coops

Guides/Toolkits

A Technology Freelancer's Guide to Starting a Worker Owned Coop

This document explores why freelancers may choose to form a cooperative, with stories from tech cooperators about their experience.

Network of American Tech Worker Cooperatives

Worker Owned Coops

Prose

Cartografías del conflicto: relaciones de ida y vuelta (Mapping conflict: a two-way relationship

Spanish-language video conversation about navigating conflict within cooperatives

Colmena Cooperative Consulting Cooperative

Worker Owned Coops, Building Strong Movements

Video

Queer Farmers Directory

Queer Farmer Network

The Solidarity Economy

Maps/Directories

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Solidarity Economy Glossary

Scroll through our growing glossary of words related to the solidarity economy movement!

Newsletter Archive

Every quarter, we send out a newsletter packed with thoughtfully written reflections, offerings on the topic of cooperation and Black Liberation, curated resources for shared readings, upcoming events, and updates on our  ongoing work. Our newsletters are written in both English and Spanish. Check out some of our past newsletters below.

Subscribe here to receive future newsletters.

What does it mean to cooperate right now?

Fall 2023

"We commit to the step-by-step work of  remembering our potential ...with the knowing that our world will be changed by it...Cooperation is a constant balance of reciprocity, an ongoing practice, a muscle that can be strengthened with repetition."
-Lila Arnaud

Education, Information, and Training

Spring 2024

...we know that new beginnings come with the inherent need for new knowledge! That’s why we are watering ourselves this season with “Education, Information, and Training”, the fifth cooperative principle.
-Jaleesa Jackson

Concern for Community

Fall 2024

How can we continue to nurture new relationships and expand our shared knowledge?"
-Jaleesa Jackson

Back to Basics with Cooperation New Orleans

Winter 2025

"Calling on our imaginations to reclaim and innovate our daily love practices: how we manageour homes and precious resources like our time and ability to care. Did you know it waspossible? Did you know we can fashion economies1 and the flow of our exchanges to meetour needs? "
-Lila Arnaud

Black August

Summer 2024

As we do our work to honor and remember those who have participated in struggles for freedom...we must also remember the importance of healing and restoring the Black bodies we currently reside in."
- Toya Lewis

Cooperation Among Cooperatives

Winter 2024

...we know that new beginnings come with the inherent need for new knowledge! That’s why we are watering ourselves this season with “Education, Information, and Training”, the fifth cooperative principle.
-Jaleesa Jackson

Cooperation for Liberation

Summer 2023

"We give thanks to the aunties and grandmas, the babas and big chiefs who have passed down the traditions of mutual aid, solidarity, collectivizing of resources and cooperating towards a common goal  as they paved the way (out of no way) for hope and inspiration."
-Tamah Yisrael

Cooperation New Orleans

Cooperación Nueva Orleans es un movimiento cuya misión es desarrollar cooperativas propiedad de los trabajadores y las estructuras para apoyarlas, centrándose en las comunidades Negras, Indígenas e inmigrantes pobres y de clase trabajadora.

Correo electrónico:

info@coopnola.org

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