July 2022 Newsletter
Join our first Members’ Coffee Chat in August
We look forward to holding our first virtual coffee chat at 10am PT/1pm ET on the second Friday of August, August 12th. This will be an informal, lightly moderated space for CPG members to get to know each other. You’re invited to register for this event here on our website. See you soon!
Welcome New Members
Welcome to our new and renewing June members:
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Deborah Groban Olson: Attorney for employee owned companies
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Teresa Castanias: Co-op tax and business consultant and CPA
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Matthew Epperson: Business Director at Savvy Cooperative and founder and ED of the Georgia Cooperative Development Center.
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Annelies Lottmann: Director of the UTRGV Texas Rural Cooperative Center
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West Foster: Law Clerk at Scholz Nonprofit Law
We maintain our member roster via our website and each month we intend to highlight here all new members from the month before. If you haven’t been featured in the “new members” section of our newsletter yet and you’d like a shout out, please email the Membership Committee at paola@cooplawgroup.com.
Look for fuller member profiles in our Member Directory. All members are encouraged to add their profile to our Member Directory so other members and the public may get to know more about them and communicate with them directly. For help with your directory entry or the website, contact Membership Committee member Kathy Gregg at kgregglaw@gmail.com.
July Webinar in the Works
This month, we look forward to hosting the next event in our conversation series on co-op professionals’ role in decolonization. We'll email an announcement shortly and date and time will be posted online at https://coopguild.wildapricot.org/Webinars.
Our June webinar, Limited Cooperative Association “Deep Dive”, was recorded and will be posted on our members-only recordings library soon.
Currently, CPG offers California CLE credit for qualifying webinars. If you’d like to help us offer CLE credit in other states, please email Sarah Kaplan at the Webinar Committee: sarah@cuttingedgecounsel.com.
Legal Spotlight - Support California bill to fund worker cooperatives
This month we’re spotlighting California Senate Bill 1407, the California Employee Ownership Act, which proposes to allocate state funds to create support and funding for worker cooperatives, as well as liaise with state agencies to reduce barriers to co-op development. You can support the bill by signing the official letter of support at NoBAWC.org/letter.
Have a legal issue or reform initiative you’d like us to highlight? Email the Membership Committee at paola@cooplawgroup.com.
Save the date: USFWC Conference on September 9-10 in Philadelphia and online
The Guild is presenting at the U.S. Federation of Worker Co-ops conference on Sep. 9-10, 2022. We’re working with Sustainable Economies Law Center to develop a day-long training track on co-creating solidarity; please email Valeria Gheorghiu at valerialexiag@gmail.com if you'd like to get involved. We’re also sponsoring a Guild get-together at the event. We hope to see you there!
Getting involved with the Cooperative Professionals Guild
The Cooperative Professionals Guild is a growing network of co-op professionals created by us, for us. We’re currently volunteer-run. If you’re interested in being part of growing and shaping this group, you’re welcome to listen in on, or join, one of our governance committees:
Members of these committees may also join the Steering Committee, which is spearheading CPG’s incorporation process and development.
Thanks for your participation in the Guild!
Your interim Steering Circle coordinators,Thomas Beckett and Therese Tuttle, and Membership Circle members Kathy Gregg, Pacyinz Lyfoung and Paola Eisner.
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Have questions?
Please contact us at guildquestion@professionals.coop
How to Log In to the Guild's Website.
If you haven't logged in to our new website yet, give it try. The site has members-only content and members-only functionalities that you can only access when you are logged in as a member. To log in, click on the little blue person icon in the upper right-hand corner of the home page (or any page) and enter your password (or click 'Forgot password' to request a new one). Your password was sent to you from "Coop Professionals Guild <Coopguild@wildapricot.org>" on March 13 if you were already a member then, otherwise it was emailed to you shortly after you first registered.