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| 7:30 |
Booth Set-up
Registration
Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 |
Welcome
Roberta MacDonald, Sr. VP Marketing, Cabot Creamery
Paul Hazen, President, National Cooperative Business Association
Howard Brodsky, CCA Global Partners (2009 Cooperative Hall of Fame Inductee) |
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| 10:00 |
THREE BREAKOUT SESSIONS |
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1. Financial Management in a Recession:
Click to learn more.
Ideas and information about where to find capital -- both from within the co-op and
from outside sources -- and how to save the world, one co-op at a time. |
Terry Lewis, Panel Chair — Liquidity Crisis
Michael Goodman, PhD, UMASS — How Did We Get Here?
Mike Schenk, CUNA Economist — Resource Access
Porter Little, CoBank
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2. Coop-to-Coop Collaboration:
Inspiring examples of recent collaborative projects.
Click to learn more. |
Erbin Crowell, CFNE, panel chair
Annie Cheatham, New England Farmers Union
Adam Trott, Valley Alliance of Worker Co-ops
Sharon Mueller, Neighboring Food Co-Op Association |
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3. Sustainability and Greening:
Concepts such as sustainability, carbon footprint, triple bottom line, and other bits
of energy jargon, acronyms. Click to learn more. |
Nancy Grant, The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Your Carbon Footprint
Jed Davis, Director of Sustainability, Cabot Creamery |
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LUNCHEON — NETWORKING |
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Eat together and keep the conversation going |
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A. Financial Resource Development
B. Marketing Resource Development |
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| 1:45 |
TWO TRACKS — MARKETING OR FINANCE |
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1. MARKETING - Developing the Cooperative Economy & Brand. Click to learn more. |
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Adam Schwartz, National Cooperative Business Association |
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• Examples of Co-op to Co-op promotions throughout US
• Using Cooperative Month materials
• Accessing go.coop
Rob Everts, Equal Exchange
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2. FINANCE - Innovative Ways for Coops to Access Capital. Click to learn more. |
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Mary Griffin, NCBA, Panel Chair, Accessing Stimulus Money
Brian Henehan, Cornell Venture Capital case study
Rebecca Dunn, Cooperative Fund of New England
Alistair Williamson, Equal Exchange
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| 3:30 |
CLOSING REMARKS: |
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Reconnecting with Your Base
Taking the Conference Home to Work for You |
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