Conferences

Five Reasons to Plan Ahead to Attend the 2025 CWCF Conference

By Lacey Chyz Lacey Chyz is the founder of Self Help and Solidarity, an empowerment agency that educates people about the power of cooperation, and facilitates opportunities for sustainable community economic development.       The Connections and Networking Every conference boasts about networking opportunities, but nothing compares to cooperation among cooperatives! This fundamental co-op Five Reasons to Plan Ahead to Attend the 2025 CWCF Conference


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Conference 2024 Reflection

Jackie Somerville is a past CWCF board member who once belonged to Edible worker co-op, an experience she recalls fondly. Thank you for allowing me to join the Zoom call for the CWCF 2024 Conference.  The enthusiasm and ideas of all the participants reawakens my zest for my own life and projects.  It brought back Conference 2024 Reflection


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Conference 2024 Overview

  By Kenzie Love CWCF’s second-ever fully virtual conference took place from November 19-21 with a theme of Unleashing Worker Co-ops for Success. In keeping with this theme, the event recognized the profound economic, social, and environmental challenges facing both workers and worker co-ops, while also celebrating the creativity, passion, and excitement worker co-ops have Conference 2024 Overview


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CWCF Announces 2024 Award Recipients 

CWCF Announces 2024 Award Recipients CWCF is pleased to announce the recipients of two awards to be presented at the 2024 Conference. The Mark Goldblatt Merit Award will be presented to Juliet ‘Kego Ume-Onyido and the Worker Co-op Best Practices Award will be presented to Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG). The Worker Co-op Merit Award, named CWCF Announces 2024 Award Recipients 


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Reflections on CWCF’s 2023 Conference

By Nasreen Omar Nasreen is one of CWCF’s BIPOC board advisors and a founding member of Edmonton’s Multicultural Health Brokers Co-op.  CWCF’s annual Conference “Stronger Together” was held in Quebec City from November 14-16, 2023. Our location in Quebec City was in beautiful surroundings; and the City is home to a number of flourishing workers’ Reflections on CWCF’s 2023 Conference


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CWCF Conference Reflection

By Em Kieffer A newer member of Toronto’s Urbane Cyclist, this was Em Kieffer’s first CWCF Conference. Attending the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation Conference in Quebec City this November as a representative of Urbane Cyclist was a rewarding and inspiring experience. Held primarily in the beautiful Monastère des Augustines, the event brought together a wide CWCF Conference Reflection


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CWCF Conference 2023 Overview

  By Kenzie Love Worker co-operators from across Quebec and the rest of Canada gathered in Quebec City November 14-16 for CWCF’s 2023 Conference, Stronger Together, hosted jointly with Quebec’s Réseau COOP.  The Conference theme was chosen to demonstrate that in a world that often prizes individual achievements over collective success, we need a co-operative CWCF Conference 2023 Overview


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