Proporcione una breve actualización sobre su progreso hacia las metas propuestas por la CWB en el último período del informe:
• Goal: Run a train-the-trainers program for staff of emerging worker cooperative developers We held the launch webinar for the Chicago Worker Cooperative Developer Fellowship, introducing participants to the program, defining worker cooperatives, dispelling myths, and exploring how cooperative development is rooted in Chicago's long history of community organizing and solidarity economics. 11 fellows attended the webinar (Maricela Estrada at CTU and Nurul Eusufzai at ChiCommons were unable to attend). We have since confirmed two new participants to the fellowship: Stacey Sutton from UIC and Deandra Cadet from Liberation Labs. Our fellowship now comprises 13 individuals from 12 organizations. We have begun planning for the in-person workshop in March, shaping the agenda, session content, and inviting speakers. This 2.5 day retreat will focus on the cooperative development roadmap, shaping mission statements, setting impact metrics (in alignment with the city's metrics), coop development models and lessons learned, and ecosystem assessment to leverage strengths to address resource and skill gaps. We also prepared for our second webinar in February on business model canvases. • Goal: Partner with local CBOs to hire, train and support local cooperators and other partners to co-execute stakeholder education and engagement work We have further refined our ecosystem education plans with input from UIC and other partners. We have begun meeting with business service organizations to understand their work, introduce them to worker ownership, and identify their interest and needs in attending our upcoming workshops and events. We specifically met with: Greater Englewood Community Development Corporation, Kola Nut Collaborative, the Illinois Small Business Development Center at the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Center for Changing Lives, and Greater Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce. We are working on content and speakers for our upcoming worker cooperative webinar series focusing on small business resource centers, CDFIs, and accountants and bookkeepers. • Goal: Support CCWBE and the City of Chicago in assessing the impact Finally, we have worked closely with the Chicago Community Wealth Building Ecosystem at UIC to shape tools and processes for collecting impact metrics. We specifically worked on 5 data collection templates for phase 1 and phase 2 grantees and walked through these tools and shared our best practices for metrics collection on an 'office hours' call with grantees hosted by the Chicago Community Wealth Building Ecosystem at UIC. 47 people were invited, 19 attended. We have offered to meet with phase 1 and 2 grantees to address their questions about the templates or how to implement them with their own internal data systems.
¿Qué restricciones o limitaciones, si las hubo, experimentó en el último período del informe?
Several of the business service organizations we met with shared that they were unaware of the city's Community Wealth Building Initiative. While this is to be expected with a new initiative, it does mean that we will need to further socialize the purpose of the initiative and how it can align with the broader business service community's priorities and concerns. This is both a current limitation of the initiative's saturation but its also a major opportunity to invite important organizations into this work. Our vision for ecosystem education is on the right track but we recognize that some of what we have proposed has been attempted in the past and did not bear fruit. Our partners at the Chicago Community Wealth Building Ecosystem at UIC support our plans but feel like it needs to be further refined to ensure that these efforts lead to lasting connections. We are working closely with them over the next two months to build a program that strongly establishes connections between the worker cooperative ecosystem and the business services community. This will require partnership development and practical and shovel-ready projects for service providers to support. We are addressing this on two fronts through the worker coop developer fellowship and our ecosystem education work. A planned January meeting with the Mayor's Office and the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection to discuss municipal interest in a legacy business preservation initiative was cancelled by the city. We plan to circle back in February to restart the conversation and be a partner in shaping a right sized approach to business preservation including support for transitioning to worker ownership as a succession option.
¿Qué oportunidades, si las hubo, aprovechó en el último período del informe?
We've been reaching out to the city's Neighborhood Business Development Centers. We've also connected with several phase 1 and 2 grantees such as Cutting Edge Counsel, Kola Nut Collaborative, and Center for Changing Lives to inform content and program design for our ecosystem education work and to coordinate outreach to business service providers.
¿Estableció nuevas relaciones/asociaciones de CWB en el último período del informe?
Sí
Describa las relaciones que estableció en relación con su trabajo en CWB.
Greater Englewood Community Development Corporation, the Illinois Small Business Development Center at the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, and Greater Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce.
¿Colaboró con otros proveedores de asistencia técnica en el último período del informe?
Sí
¿Con qué proveedores de asistencia técnica trabajó?
Center for Changing Lives, Kola Nut Collaborative, Upside Down Consulting
Comparta en nombre de quién/qué proyectos colaboró con los proveedores de asistencia técnica mencionados anteriormente:
Chicago Worker Cooperative Developer Fellowship and our ecosystem education work.
¿Asistió a la reunión del Grupo de Trabajo el mes pasado?
No
¿Cómo calificaría la utilidad del grupo de trabajo para su proyecto el mes pasado? (en una escala del 1 al 5)
5 extremadamente útiles
Espacio Opcional
Área(s) comunitaria(s) (seleccione todas las que correspondan)
| Zona comunitaria | Participantes atendidos en esta área comunitaria |
|---|---|
| Plaza Logan | 2 |
| Lado inferior oeste | 1 |
| Deering del sur | 1 |
| Césped | 1 |
| Cerca del lado oeste | 2 |
| Parque Oeste Garfield | 1 |
| austin | 1 |
| Englewood | 3 |
| Plaza Lincoln | 1 |
Raza/etnicidad de los participantes (seleccione todas las que correspondan)
Otra raza/etnicidad (especifique)
2 Hispanic that preferred not to state race or chose Other, 1 American Indian or Alaskan Native
Identidad de género de los participantes (seleccione todas las que correspondan)
Rango de edad de los participantes (seleccione todos los que correspondan)
¿Cuántas sesiones de consultoría individual para cooperativas de trabajadores, conversiones o desarrolladores de cooperativas realizó en este período del informe? (por ejemplo, un grupo o individuo con un proveedor de capacitación)?
12
¿Cuántos talleres grupales para cooperativas de trabajadores, conversiones o desarrolladores de cooperativas realizó en este período del informe? (por ejemplo, convocatorias, talleres, eventos, etc.)
2
¿Cuántas horas de apoyo a las cooperativas de trabajadores, conversiones o desarrolladores de cooperativas de predesarrollo de CWB proporcionó en este período de informe?
1
¿Cuántas horas de soporte a cooperativas de trabajadores, conversiones o desarrolladores de cooperativas existentes proporcionó en este período de informe?
5
¿Cuántas empresas cooperativas desarrolló en el último período del informe? (Está bien si la respuesta es 0)
0
¿Cuántos puestos de trabajo se crearon en total en el último período del informe? (Está bien si la respuesta es 0)
0
Enumere las cooperativas de trabajadores, conversiones u organizaciones de desarrolladores de cooperativas con las que trabajó en este período de informe.
Otra organización (especifique):
Center for Changing Lives, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos, Chicago Community and Workers Rights, Chicago Community Wealth Building Ecosystem at UIC, ChiCommons LWCA, Co-Op Ed Center, Cooperation Racine, Earthseed Native Landscaping & Edible Gardens LWCA, Kola Community Solutions, Revolution Institute, The K, Liberation Labs/Justice Cream
¿Qué tipo(s) de asistencia técnica proporcionó a cooperativas de trabajadores, conversiones o desarrolladores de cooperativas en este período del informe? Seleccione todas las que correspondan.
¿Brindó educación a cooperativas de trabajadores, conversiones o desarrolladores de cooperativas en este período del informe?
Sí
¿Cuántas horas de educación/capacitación de grupo proporcionó el mes pasado?
2
¿Cuántas horas de educación popular/divulgación brindó el mes pasado?
0
Número de materiales curriculares creados el mes pasado
2
¿Cómo comercializó sus servicios y realizó actividades de divulgación en el último período del informe? Seleccione todas las que correspondan.
¿Cuáles son las mayores necesidades que sus clientes/socios de WC expresaron en este período de informe?
Coop development skills to both strengthen their existing businesses while also developing skillsets necessary for developing or advising future cooperative development projects
¿Cuáles son las mayores brechas en servicios o recursos en el ecosistema CWB de Chicago?
Cooperative fluent accountants and bookkeepers; cooperative fluent business service providers (e.g. business planning), infrastructure to ensure that this support continues to be provided beyond the CWB funding timeline
Comparta cualquier testimonio directo de clientes de Cooperativas de Trabajadores, Conversiones o Desarrolladores de Cooperativas o narraciones sobre el impacto de su trabajo durante este período:
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Cargue medios (documentos con testimonios, fotografías o enlaces de videos) de los talleres o eventos del WC realizados.
¿Su organización proporcionó asistencia técnica adicional durante este período de informe que NO se cubrió en las pestañas anteriores?
Sí
Describa los tipos de organizaciones que apoyó (es decir, organizaciones sin fines de lucro, organizaciones de servicios empresariales, etc.)
Mentioned in the General questions section but copying it here: We have begun meeting with business service organizations to understand their work, introduce them to worker ownership, and identify their interest and needs in attending our upcoming workshops and events. We specifically met with: Greater Englewood Community Development Corporation, Kola Nut Collaborative, the Illinois Small Business Development Center at the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, Center for Changing Lives, and Greater Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce.
¿Cuántas organizaciones o entidades en total apoyó (que no estaban cubiertas en las pestañas anteriores)?
3
¿Cuántas horas totales de soporte brindó a estas organizaciones?
5
Comparta cualquier otro detalle relevante sobre el apoyo que brindó a estas organizaciones:
