INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF CO-OPS
California Projects
- Co-op Flag Project. The Coalition of Bay Area Housing Cooperatives is working on a Co-op Flag that they can put up outside their Co-ops. They also hope to get the city to fly the flags in October! Collaborators welcome!
- P-6 Initiatives Highlighted in IYC Showcase. California natural foods co-ops are collaborating with other members of the National Cooperative Grocer’s Association in hosting a hosting a 13-episode online video series showcasing the amazing food that co-ops offer and ways co-ops bring farmers, producers and shoppers together.
Please visit: http://strongertogether.coop/at-the-market/food-co-ops-in-focus-2/ to view. - Co-op Calendar available from CCCD. Share your initiatives for inclusion in 2013 calendar. Scroll down for more details!
- March 1, 2012: The History of Housing Cooperatives in the U.S. and Labor/Worker Solidarity. Learn about the historical and current connections of housing cooperative and worker movements. Event is sponsored by the San Francisco Community Land Trust, The Center for Political Education, and the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives. Thurs, 3/1 6pm-8pm: 518 Valencia St., San Francisco. For more information call 415/399-0943.
- March 3, 2012: Touchstone Energy Annual Conference and IYC Celebration, Balboa Park- San Diego, beginning at 7:30am. Touchstone Energy continues the tradition it established three years ago: co-sponsoring a charitable service project that benefits the surrounding community. The 2012 project is Finish Chelsea's Run 5K Run/Walk. The event honors high school scholar and athlete Chelsea King who was the victim of a terrible act that ended her life. Co-op employees, board members and families are encouraged to participate in Finish Chelsea's Run 5K Run/Walk. For more information or to sign up visit www.chelseaslight.org
- May 4-5, 2012: CCCD and Bay Area Cooperatives host IYC Celebration during CCCD's annual California Co-op Conference;First Unitarian Church of Oakland, 685 14th Street, Oakland, CA
National & International Events
- United Nations calendar of IYC Events: http://social.un.org/coopsyear/events
- International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) calendar of IYC events: http://www.ica.coop/activities/iyc/
- October 8-12, 2012: 2012 International Summit of Cooperatives, Quebec City, Canada
- The 2012 International Summit of Cooperatives, which will focus on economic and financial issues specific to cooperatives and mutuals, is the ideal place to forge high-calibre strategic alliances. For more information, visit: http://www.2012intlsummit.coop/site/home
- National Cooperative Development Act--an initiative to support cooperative development. For more information visit: http://www.ncba.coop/ncba/what-we-do/public-policy/calls-to-action/support-the-cooperative-development-act
Events Previously Held
February 2, 2012: UN panel on youth and co-ops, 1:15-2:45 EST Staff members of the North American Students of Cooperation will present on a panel during the 50th Session of the Commission for Social Development at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The panel, titled “Youth employment through entrepreneurship: the role of cooperatives,” was organized by the Division for Social Policy and Development and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in collaboration with NASCO, the University of Massachusetts Center for Student Business, and the YES-JUMP Coop Challenge Fund. The panel will highlight the potential of cooperatives to empower, employ and engage youth, and to demonstrate how young people can use the cooperative enterprise model to advance issues that are important for them.
2012 Co-op Calendar Celebrates International Year of Cooperatives
This calendar commemorates 2012, the International Year of Cooperatives. The year’s distinction presents an opportunity to recognize the contributions that cooperative enterprises make to their members and communities. The cooperative model provides an organizational framework through which people create jointly-owned democratic enterprises to realize ends they may not be able to achieve as individuals: quality goods and services at a fair price for consumers, fair prices for farmers and ranchers, control and ownership for workers –examples of each of which are highlighted in this calendar.
Each calendar month highlights a particular cooperative business principle, and while each business ultimately incorporates all seven principles, the caption explains how the highlighted principle is exemplified.
This calendar is presented as a celebration of cooperatives and some of the significant people, institutions, and events that fueled their development.
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