Think Outside the Boss: A Workshop on Worker-Owned Cooperatives

Workshop

This workshop provides community members an introduction into the nuts and bolts of starting and running a cooperatively owned business. We go over legal issues in an accessible way to help you understand the relationships between cooperatives, employment, and community wealth-building.

Attorneys, law students, and experienced cooperative professionals give short presentations on legal issues, governance structures, financing, and more — including resources and information on:

• What is a worker-owned business?
• What’s the advantage of forming a cooperative business?
• How do you run a business democratically?
• How do you spread ownership and control across a group of people?
• What’s the tax and accounting issues in a cooperative?
• How do you raise money from your members, your community, and even the bank?
• What are the employment and labor laws about how to treat your workers?

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At the event, we will have bound copies of the Think Outside the Boss manual. You can download the manual at http://www.theselc.org/legal-guides.
More info: www.theselc.org/totb8
To Register: www.theselc.org/totb8

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