Startup
Center for Family Life Cooperative Startup Guides
El Proceso Legal Para Iniciar Tu Negocio
Programa para Iniciar Cooperativas
Worker Cooperative Creation as Progressive Lawyering? Moving Beyond the One-Person, One-Vote Floor
How to Start and Manage a Worker-Owned Home Care Cooperative
Think Outside the Boss Manual: How to Create a Worker Owned Enterprise
Pro Forma Template
This pro forma template is intended to aid cooperative entrepreneurs (and the developers who serve them) in making a preliminary financial assessment of their worker cooperative startup. Many worker cooperative startups are learning business finances for the first time. This tool offers a framework to think about their business and some labor-saving, pre-built Excel formulas.
Building Shared Entrepreneurship
This resource is intended to give small business support organizations a background on how the worker cooperative model can help entrepreneurs reach their dreams.
Guide to Worker Cooperative Bylaws and Operating Agreements
After working with professionals to determine which entity type is right for your worker cooperative, the next step is to work with professionals to develop your governing documents. Bylaws and operating agreements should include high-level information about the governance of the organization. They clarify and codify the democratic governance and ownership of your cooperative, help provide a structure through which the cooperative can grow, and provide a last resort for conflict resolution if relationships break down.
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