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Online Recorded Workshops

• Acting on GM monitoring reports

• Board self-evaluation
• Board role in expansion
• Boards and member linkage
• Boards and strategic thinking
• Board Holism  - NEW!
• Boards, staff grievances, and maintaining the gov
• Building a board budget ORW
• Building a successful board-GM relationship
• Co-op Connections
• Co-op Connections II
• Dealing with complaints
• GM evaluation
• Governing a cooperative during a recession
• How to be a successful board chair/president
• Including members in the ends dialogue
• Member economic participation
• Monitoring staff treatment using staff survey data   - NEW!
• Perpetuating a strong board: recruiting and orient
• Planning for board leader succession
• Roles and responsibilities of directors
• Setting a process for GM compensation
• Starting off right with your new General Manager
• Thinking Strategically About Patronage Dividends
• Understanding member needs and motivations
• Understanding the balance sheet

 

ORW Snippets

• Perpetuating a Strong Board
  • Characteristics of Effective Directors (2:14)
  • Developing a Pool of Candidates (2:59)
  • Recruitment Is An Active Process (1:59)

 

 

 

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Field Guide

The Field Guide will develop as a topic-specific notebook-format and online resource for your board. Installments of The Field Guide will include a description of recommended practices and key discussion questions your board can use to reach its decision on the topic. References to resources for your further research will also be provided.

Your CBLD consultant can help you with any of these topics before and after the Field Guide resource is published.

 

• Acting on Ends Reports  - NEW!
• Agenda Planning
• Annual Meetings and Annual Reports
• Audits & Reviews
• Board Compensation
• Building a Positive Board Performance Culture
• Building a Positive Board Performance Culture II

• Bylaw basics
• Bylaws:  Fresh Start Bylaws Template

• Cooperative Model Grievance Project
  • Field Guide for Boards
  • Resources for Managers
• Elections
• Electronic Communication  - NEW!
• Executive Sessions
• Minute Taking Essentials
• Officer Elections
• Policy Governance FAQ
• Policy Governance Implementation
• Staff on the Board
• Strategic Conversation Using EL Reports  - NEW!

 

 

 

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Articles

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Videos

	Michael Shuman speaks at the Hanover Co-op, April 2008   Click here to watch the video online - or - Click here to download the video (529MB)
	Gar Alperovitz speaks at Weaver's Way Co-op, April 2006   Click here to watch the video online - or - Click here to download the video (677MB)
	Hand in hand...  A history of the Hanover Consumer Co-op   Click here to watch the video online - or - Click here to download the video (292MB)
	the Rochdale Pioneers Roots of the Cooperative Movement Recorded for Roanoke Co-op by Todd Wallace, Jan. 2011   Click here to watch the video online - or - Click here to download the video (94MB)
	The Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society Presents: David Thompson on Toyohiko Kagawa and Brotherhood Economics Click here to watch the video online - or - Click here to download the video (166MB)   Listen or read NPR Presents: Cooperative Economy
	Mari Gallagher presents From Food Desert to Food Oasis: How Co-ops Can Make a Difference   Click here to watch the video online   Recorded at CCMA, June 17, 2011
	Brett Fairbairn presents Keepin' It Real: Co-ops in Turbulent Times Imagination & Alignment   Click here to watch the video online   Recorded at CCMA, June 18, 2011

 

 

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The CBLD Library is funded by co-ops participating in the CBLD program.

The CBLD Library is set up as a good old fashioned lending library...

you have access to download the files you need.

We just ask that you let us know what you resources you downloaded.

When you're done, please click this link and complete the brief form.

Your input is valued and much appreciated! Thanks!