Cooperatives are increasingly taking a page from the Silicon Valley playbook and launching cooperative accelerators, academies, incubators and at least one contest – Hoy said Rogue’s competition is the first – to help build the next generation of cooperatively-owned businesses. Their goals are in line with the zeitgeist: democratizing ownership and giving employees, consumers, and communities a stake in the businesses where they shop or work. 

How co-op accelerators and incubators are supercharging a worker-owned economy https://www.shareable.net/how-co-op-accelerators-and-incubators-are-supercharging-a-worker-owned-economy/
#coop #coopdevelopment

Here's a thought: what if Social.Coop had a webpage/homebase with key info like CoC, Wiki; and links to:
a) all of our resources (Loomio, OpenCollective, Mastodon, GitLab, Matrix)
b) useful tools (etherpad, fairmeeting, etc)
c) other #PlatformCoops
We could use the website registration as our main tool for onboarding new people.
d) member blogs on other sites
e) material on cooperativism
f) upcoming events
g) your cool idea here

#socialcoop
#coopdevelopment
@clayton @mike_hales

Caroline Savery at the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Co-op Development Center ([email protected]) has developed a curriculum and made it available online.

https://www.rmfu.org/what-we-do/cooperation/co-op-curricula/

#coopdevelopment
#education #cooperativism

Just posted a note to the #FullBarrelCoop membership seeking to raise $5k in common co-op equity to fund a feasibility study of the space we're considering launching in.

😬  💰

#CoopStartUp #coops #CoopDevelopment

Great material on this website of atty. Jason Wiener and partners.

http://jrwiener.com/resources/

#coopdevelopment #legal #cooperative

"Since 1992, every ... #cooperative ... in Italy has had the responsibility of transferring 3 percent of its net profits to a national #CoopDevelopment fund.

3 different funds were set up to support co-ops affiliated with either;
1) The Lega (Left of center),
2) ConfCoop (Catholic center Right), or
3) ACGI (Republican parties)
The Lega’s #Coopfond (Fund for the Promotion of Cooperatives) is the largest of the three and is used here as an example."

https://www.grocer.coop/articles/building-future #coop #platformcoop