Co-op Conversation Guidebook
How Co-ops Can Help Solve Problems in Community, with a focus on BIPOC and other Equity-Denied Groups, written by iMOVE (in My Own Voice)
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Guides
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Worker Cooperatives: Pathways to Scale
This paper aims to help build the field of U.S. worker co-op development by providing a current view of the cooperative landscape and by analyzing factors that inhibit or promote cooperative development. Although informed by the cooperative giants in Europe, this analysis highlights lessons learned through the development and growth of worker co-ops in the United States. Click here … Worker Cooperatives: Pathways to Scale
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Worker Co-op Resource Guide
This Resource Guide, in the form of web links to practical documents, is designed to be used as a reference guide by people considering the start-up of a worker co-op and organizations that support business development of various types, as well as by worker co-ops that are operating. Worker Co-op Resource Guide
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RRSP Changes Guide Part 2, January 2013
January 24, 2013 Important Proposed Changes to Co-op RRSP Rules, by Hazel Corcoran If individuals in your co-op hold co-op shares in a self-directed RRSP, there are two important updates which CWCF wants to bring to your attention. These updates are relevant in cases where individuals (or individuals along with related parties) held 10% or … RRSP Changes Guide Part 2, January 2013
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What is Sweat Equity?
by Peter Hough Sweat equity is generally considered all the voluntary unpaid work that is often required in the first years of a new business. This work is usually unpaid because the new business cannot afford to pay wages or salaries during start-up. The commitment by members to provide sweat equity is often essential for … What is Sweat Equity?
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Succession Planning Using the Worker Co-op Option
Excerpt: Succession Planning: An Opportunity & a Challenge The succession issue for small and family-owned businesses has grown due to the large number of small business owners nearing retirement. Studies in places as diverse as Australia and Quebec, have demonstrated that well over 50 per cent of small and medium sized businesses will face this … Succession Planning Using the Worker Co-op Option
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Using Financial Models
Presentation by Peter Hough Objective: To learn to develop and use basic financial models to assist with budgeting and other financial decisions. Benefits: Assists in decision making: Shows relationship between financial parameters Easy comparison of options Sensitivity analysis – easy to vary the assumptions of multiple relationships Helps to make judgments on level of risk … Using Financial Models
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So You Want to Retire
Presentation by Peter Hough Excerpt: Key Issues: -Founding and Long Term Members Retirement Security Relinquishing member/ownership and it benefits Worker Co-operative New Members Viability Cash Flow Debt Load Knowledge Transfer …continued in attachment. So You Want to Retire_0
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RRSP Changes Guide – April 2012
This document provides information on changes to RRSP programmes for Cooperatives. The information contained in this document is, for many, time-sensitive. Please download the file below. RRSP changes Guide fnl-2
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Preparing and Marketing Financing Proposals: A Plain Language Guide for Worker Co-ops
Excerpt: The purpose of this Guide is to help you navigate the financial planning and marketing process for your co-op. There is really no distinction between what your business plan and/or financing proposals need in order to get approved by financiers and what your co-op needs in order to succeed. As a general rule: whatever … Preparing and Marketing Financing Proposals: A Plain Language Guide for Worker Co-ops
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