February 2024 Newsletter
February webinar: Antitrust for Cooperatives with Lucy Clippinger
Join us on February 29th, 11am PT/1pm ET for our February CPG webinar. Lucy Clippinger will present a CPG Webinar about antitrust law for cooperatives, to include a basic overview, issue-spotting for new practitioners, and advanced issues. 1.5 hours of CLE credit will be available in California (and we hope you can apply that in your state too). Registration will be available soon. Recordings for past CPG webinars are available for Members and Subscribers in the Guild’s webinar library.
The Webinar Circle Invites You!
The Webinar Circle currently consists of 4 members. Meegan Moriarty, Therese Tuttle, Josey Foo, and Sarah Kaplan have been organizing and hosting monthly webinars since 2021. We meet for one hour every two weeks, and we host about 11 or 12 webinars a year. We would like to expand our network!
- What would you like to teach or learn? Do you have a suggestion for a webinar? Please nominate yourself as a speaker, someone else, or a topic you'd like to learn more about.
- Can you join our circle and be part of the team that hosts webinars? If you would like to be involved in developing and hosting webinars on a regular basis, we'd love for you to join.
Contact Sarah Kaplan at sarah@pathlightlaw.com. Thanks!!
February Coffee Chat: Running our businesses
Many of us here at CPG work at law, accounting, or bookkeeping in small or medium-sized independent businesses. Let’s chat about running our firms. Members have been talking about group purchases of benefits and other resources; this is a great place to continue the conversation.
We’ll meet on Friday, Feb. 23rd at 10am PT/1pm ET; the link to register will be available on the website shortly. Note that the Membership Circle has decided to meet on the last Friday of each month, at this time, for this and future coffee chats.
CPG Conference Circle kickoff on Monday, February 12th
If you enjoyed the 2023 CPG Conference, please consider joining the Conference Circle as we start planning for our next conference. The group will kick off organizing on Monday at 12pm PT/3pm ET. Email Lindsey Taylor at lindsey@commonenterprise.coop if you’d like to join the meeting on Monday, and/or join the Circle.
Join us in 2024: CPG Memberships and Subscriptions
Take your commitment to cooperative development to the next level by joining the Cooperative Professionals Guild as a member or subscriber. We are the only national association dedicated to supporting the growth of cooperatives by advancing the professional development of cooperative professionals in the United States, especially those who are from or who serve marginalized or disadvantaged communities. We welcome attorneys, accountants, paraprofessionals and students in the fields of law and accounting with an interest in the cooperative model to join as governing members. We invite others with an interest in cooperatives to participate in our programming as subscribers. Register here.
Community upcoming events
Both webinars are free and bilingual in English and Spanish. Registration at usworker.coop/calendar or these event-specific links:
https://info.usworker.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=682 https://info.usworker.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=680
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March 25-26: You’re invited to the Cooperative Council of North Carolina’s annual conference, whose theme this year is “Cooperatives: Empower Communities”. “The purpose of our annual conference is to bring our members together to network, learn from each other, participate in engaging discussions and share their unique perspectives in order to determine the needs of cooperatives in our state and guide CCNC in assisting our cooperatives and bettering our communities. Learn more at https://ccnc.coop/cooperative-conference.
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Sept. 17-18: Mark Your Calendars for a Conference Focused on Co-op Law in Columbus, Ohio! The conference, “Building a Cooperative Economy Together: A cooperative conference for lawyers, accountants, business builders, and cooperators,” will bring together national and regional experts to explore the intersection of law and cooperative development with a special focus on cooperative solutions and challenges. Built with new and experienced attorneys, accountants, and cooperators in mind, the conference will include foundational learning sessions and more advanced topics. The conference is being organized by a collaborative group of developers and practitioners; this is the fourth conference they organize. Questions? Reach out to the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Center for Cooperatives at The Ohio State University at osucooperatives@osu.edu.
Job opportunities
Community announcements
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For folks located near Madison, WI: “Madison Workers Cooperative (MadWorC), a membership organization made up of local worker-owned cooperatives and their supporters, is now offering a new four-week class through Madison College designed to teach locals what cooperative businesses are all about and help more people eventually start their own.” Read more here.