Conversions Timeline
Year:
2013
Gant chart outlining the phases a business goes through during transition to a cooperative.
Business Document - Model/Template
Meetings and Consensus
Year:
2009
Tips for effective meetings and consensus decision-making. Thanks to USFWC member, South Mountain Company, for this resource.
Worker-Owner Policy Handbook (template)
Year:
2012
Sample employee handbook for a worker cooperative. Provided in a word document for easy modification for your own cooperative.
Sample Worker Cooperative Bylaws
Year:
2013
Don't start from scratch. Sample worker cooperative bylaws in word doc form for you to edit for your own cooperative.
Choice of Legal Entity - Chart
Author(s):
Adapted from TheMoneyAlert.com
Year:
2011
A chart to assist with selecting the most appropriate legal entity for your worker cooperative. Compares: Sole Proprietor, C-Corp, S-Corp, Limited Liability Company (LLC), and Cooperative Corporation.
28 questions to ask before meeting the lawyer
Author(s):
Jenny Kassan
Year:
2012
28 essential questions for any start-up to ask - and try to answer - before meeting with a lawyer.
28 preguntas: ¿Estas pensando en empezar una cooperativa de trabajadores? Unas preguntas para revisar antes de reunirse con un abogado
Author(s):
Jenny Kassan
Year:
2013
¿Estas pensando en empezar una cooperativa de trabajadores? Unas preguntas para revisar antes de reunirse con un abogado.
A Layperson’s Guide to the Teamworks Cooperative Network’s Financial and Legal Structures
Author(s):
David Smathers Moore
Year:
2008
The legal and financial framework described here came out of three and half years of
collaboration with attorney Bart Deamer, a partner at the Silicon Valley office of Bingham
Sample By Laws
This document provides example bylaws for CALIFORNIA worker cooperative using a flat organizational structure.
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