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Date: Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 4:42 PM<br>Subject: [Community_forum] Speakers: Community Builders Cooperative & Mass Local Food Cooperative, July 26th, Cambridge<br>To: Community Forum <<a href="mailto:community_forum@lists.occupyboston.org">community_forum@lists.occupyboston.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:Social-enterprise@lists.occupyboston.org">Social-enterprise@lists.occupyboston.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:Social-enterprise@lists.occupyboston.org">Social-enterprise@lists.occupyboston.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:sustainableeconomy@lists.occupyboston.org">sustainableeconomy@lists.occupyboston.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:sustainableeconomy@lists.occupyboston.org">sustainableeconomy@lists.occupyboston.org</a>><br>
<br><br>PLEASE FORWARD<br>
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Thursday July 26th, 7-9 pm<br>
*Social Enterprise Workshop*<br>
/*SPEAKERS FROM SUCCESSFUL LOCAL CO-OPERATIVES*/<br>
1151 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Old Cambridge Baptist Church, ring bell by glass door)<br>
Free (donation accepted)<br>
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Meeting format: Speakers tell us about their history, focusing on how they started the co-op, issues/challenges they overcame and how, what they'd do differently, what they'd recommend to others starting co-ops, and what the future holds for their organizations and others like them.<br>
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Questions/Answers/Discussion following, focused on Occupy-specific themes, including starting co-ops locally.<br>
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*7:00 Marc Rudnick, Community Builders Cooperative (<a href="http://www.communitybuilders.coop/" target="_blank">http://www.communitybuilders.<u></u>coop/</a>)<br>
7:45 Kelley O-Conner, Mass Local Food Co-Op (<a href="http://www.masslocalfood.org/)*" target="_blank">http://www.masslocalfood.org/<u></u>)*</a><br>
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So far, 8 people who are starting co-ops have confirmed they are coming.<br>
Come! Learn! Network!<br>
Take back the Economy! _/*OCCUPY THE ECONOMY!*/_<br>
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More Info on the organizations that the speakers come from is below:<br>
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COMMUNITY BUILDERS CO-OP<br>
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Community Builders Cooperative (<a href="http://www.communitybuilders.coop/" target="_blank">http://www.communitybuilders.<u></u>coop/</a>) is a 9-member worker-coop renovation contracting business of the<br>
more radical collective sort:<br>
--Intentionally founded by progressive young carpenters in 1979.<br>
--No hierarchy - all members decide all policy and practice together by consensus.<br>
--All members receive equal wages.<br>
New positions in the group are rare, though there have been 24 members over our 33 year tenure. Most of the group have been members since the beginning. The groups believes strongly in helping others form co-ops, not in making ours a lot bigger<br>
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MASS LOCAL FOOD CO-OP<br>
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The Mass Local Food Co-op (<a href="http://www.masslocalfood.org/" target="_blank">http://www.masslocalfood.org/</a><u></u>) is an online farmers market that connects local consumers with local farmers and producers using an open source shop software system & structure designed by the Oklahoma Food Cooperative.<br>
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Kelley, the founder has a BA in Math from Bowdoin College and 25 years experience in software engineering & technical support. She learned about peak oil in 2005 and became very interested in food security. In 2006, she learned that the Oklahoma Food Co-op was giving away their software, and decided to try to start something similar here in Massachusetts. After a couple years of building support, the co-op launched in June 2009 with 30 orders from 10 producers, and are now up to about 150 orders a month with about 45 producers and over 500 members. The co-op delivers to seven pickup sites and offer about 2500 Massachusetts grown& artisan products. It is entirely volunteer operated, with a seven member Board of Directors. And it continues to grow and is currently searching for a new sorting center so that it can open more pickup sites and accommodate more members.<br>
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Terra<br>
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Terra Friedrichs<br>
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