June 2023 Newsletter

Guild News, Community Events, Jobs and Announcements 

June Webinar: Introduction to Housing Cooperatives featuring Terry Lewis, David Rosebud Sparer, and Jerome Hughes

Please join us on Thursday, June 15th, 2023 at 10am PT/11am MT/12pm CT/1pm ET for our June webinar. We look forward to this introduction to housing cooperatives by three experienced housing co-op lawyers: Terry Lewis, co-op lawyer, policy maker, and Cooperative Hall of Fame member; David Rosebud Sparer, who has over 40 years of experience as a co-op lawyer, and Professor Hughs, who directs UDC’s Community Development Law Clinic. More information about the presenters is available on the event registration page.  ​​

Our members-only recordings library has been updated and includes links to our past webinars, including the recording and slides for our May webinar, “​​What Your Co-op Bylaws Need”, presented by CPA David Antoni and Attorney Todd Eskelsen.

Approval for 1 CLE credit in California is pending. 

June 30th Coffee Chat

You’re invited to our June 30th coffee chat. We’ve been alternating between themed coffee chats (like our coffee chat featuring accountants in May) and open coffee chats, where folks can get together to chat about whatever might come up. Our June coffee chat will be an open coffee chat. Come join us, and bring your coffee or another drink, on Friday, June 30th. Chats last one hour and usually start at 10am PT/1pm ET; we’ll send an event announcement and registration link to the Guild network listserv shortly.

Got a theme to propose, a tricky professional question or a co-op project you’d like to talk about, or a co-op community of practice you’d like to learn more about? Reach out to the Membership Circle by email at membership@professionals.coop. 

What do you want to see at the 2023 CPG Conference? Send us your thoughts using this survey.

The Guild is looking forward to hosting its annual conference on November 2-4th in Chicago, Illinois. The conference will be hybrid, and will include the Guild’s annual member meeting.

The Guild is 100% Member-run. We would like to know if you would like to present at the conference, and if you have ideas and suggestions for conference sessions. Please provide input using this survey. 

You can contact the Conference Circle at conference-circle@professionals.coop. 

Community upcoming events 

  • June 16: The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund is hosting the first summer will clinic in Jackson, MS on Friday June 16 from 10AM - 4PM. Sign up with this link (https://qbro28xmm21.typeform.com/to/WghfLqPk) to secure your spot today!

  • June 21: NSAC webinar on “Sources of Capital for a Start-Up Cooperative” featuring Sarah Kaplan and Christina Jennings. 

  • Aug. 20-30: International Centre for Co-operative Management and the J. Dobrila University of Pula (Croatia)’s international cooperative law summer school, Pula, Croatia.  Link. 

  • Nov. 2-4: Cooperative Professionals Guild annual conference and member meeting, Chicago, IL. 

  • Nov. 29- Dec. 1: 4th International Forum of Cooperative Law, San Sebastian, Basque Country. Hybrid.

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