Building an Inclusive Economy: The Co-operative Difference
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The document outlines the key points from the NFCA's seventh annual meeting held on March 17, 2018, featuring Doug O'Brien, president and CEO of NCBA CLUSA, as the keynote speaker. It emphasizes the importance of cooperatives in building an inclusive economy to address current socioeconomic challenges, equity, and sustainability. Various topics such as the gig economy, climate change, and historical significance of cooperatives in advancing civil rights are discussed, along with an invitation for community members to engage and support the cooperative movement.
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- 1. S E V E N T H A N N U A L M E E T IN G 1 7 th M a r c h 2 0 1 8 M o r n i n g K e y n o t e D o u g O ’ B r i e n P r e s i d e n t & C E O N C B A C L U S A “ B u i l d i n g a n In c l u s i v e E c o n o m y : T h e C o - o p e r a t i v e D i f f e r e n c e ” G r e e n f i e l d C o m m u n i t y C o l l e g e G r e e n f i e l d , M A NFCA Seventh Annual Meeting 2018 NEIGHBORING FOOD CO-OP ASSOCIATION Image courtesy of NCBA CLUSA.
- 2. NFCA Seventh Annual Meeting 2018 SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR LEAD SPONSORS
- 3. Doug O’Brien ¡President & CEO, National Cooperative Business Association / NCBA CLUSA ¡U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development ¡Alleviation of Rural Poverty, Development of Local & Regional Food Systems NFCA Seventh Annual Meeting 2018 OUR KEYNOTE
- 4. Doug O’Brien President & CEO, NCBA CLUSA Building an Inclusive Economy The Cooperative Difference
- 5. • Through our work, people become owners of their future through cooperative enterprises. • We work with public and private thought leaders to promote economic development based on the principles of cooperation. • We represent the trusted way to do business and build communities. 5 As the national voice of cooperative businesses in the United States, NCBA CLUSA is collaborative partner in, advocate for, and driver of an Inclusive Economy in which people around the world are empowered to contribute to shared prosperity and well-being for themselves and future generations. . Who we are What we do
- 6. A Cooperative Place IOWA Dubuque County
- 7. Our Cooperative Moment Cooperatives are even more relevant in times of economic or social exclusion: When current economic and social structures are inadequate to people’s needs. Why Co-ops Why NOW?
- 8. Our Cooperative Moment 8 “If...concentration of power is the cause of the present weakness of our society, we can nonetheless show that we know a counteractive to that power, which can restore responsibility and hope to the average citizen. It is the simple counteractive of cooperation, the method of mutual aid. Any group of people anywhere on earth can use that same method both to raise their living standards and enhance their freedom and build their human dignity.” - Jerry Voorhis, American Cooperatives
- 9. Our Cooperative Moment: Challenges 9 Socioeconomic Fragmentation Inequality and Inequities Changing Work and Work Security Information Technology Climate change
- 11. America is Becoming More Diverse Low diversity- Big increase Low diversity- Little change High diversity- Little change High diversity- Big increase Dan Keating & Laris Karklis, “The increasingly diverse United States of America”, The Washington Post, Nov. 25, 2016.
- 12. Inequality & Inequity • Increasing inequality • Declining social mobility • Persistent disparities among races, genders, etc. • Cooperatives are essential to creating the society we need. 12
- 13. Barriers to Socioeconomic Equity 13
- 14. Changing Work & Work Security: Trends • Relatively few high paying knowledge- based jobs and many crucial, but low paid, service jobs. • In the gig economy, workplace economic security is diminished. • Cooperatives empower workers to tackle these challenges and to make gains in their situations. Photo: Worker-owner of Up and Go Cooperative Home Cleaning Services
- 15. Changing Work & Work Security: Trends
- 16. Information Technology • New conceptions of the marketplace. • Questions about personal data use and ownership. • Easier connection and interaction. • Co-ops have both challenges and opportunities
- 17. The Digital Divide Click to add text
- 18. Climate Change • As climates change, weather is becoming extreme and irregular. • Drought, heat, and unseasonal cold threaten the stability and resilience of societies. • Cooperatives promote sustainability and resilience. NCBA CLUSA: Photo from Yaajeende! Project in Senegal.
- 21. Co-ops and the Black Americans register to vote in Charleston, S.C., July 17, 1948. Local cooperatives created "schools" to promote voter registration and democratic participation despite the Jim Crow South’s barriers. The Federation has been crucial to advancing Southern lives and ensuring the retention of Black farmer-owned land in changing economic circumstances. Photo Credit: The Post and Courier. Photo Credit: The Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund. Civil Rights Movement
- 22. Co-ops & the Oval Office “I can’t help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people.” - President Ronald Reagan on Employee Ownership 23 “The catalog of your accomplishments in large. You cooperatives brought credit when it seemed unobtainable. You brought light and power to rural Americans when it appeared out of reach. You brought modern telephone service to tens of thousands and lowered the price of gas and fertilizer to many thousands more.” - President Lyndon B. Johnson
- 23. The Inclusive Economy NCBA CLUSA is a collaborative partner in, advocate for, and driver of an Inclusive Economy in which people around the world are empowered to contribute to shared prosperity and well-being for themselves and future generations. 24
- 24. Factors of an Inclusive Economy Co-op Principles Equity Participation Growth Stability Sustainability
- 25. Cooperative Opportunities Home care, Child care Natural Resources, Sustainability Local and Regional Food Systems Consumer-owned Community Anchors (grocery store, restaurant, bar) Worker- owned and Conversions Gig Economy
- 26. How NCBA CLUSA is Capturing the Cooperative Moment… •Advocacy •Public Relations •Development •Thought Leadership & Strategic Relationships
- 27. How You Can Advance the Co-op Movement Advocacy • Visit ncba.coop/advocacy/how-you-can-help. • Email Alan Knapp, VP of Advocacy at NCBA CLUSA, at [email protected]. • Become a member of NCBA CLUSA, email Stephen McDow for info: [email protected] Public Relations • Submit information about your co-op for the Co-op Weekly at [email protected]. • Share the Co-op Weekly and info about local co-ops on social media. Thought Leadership • Apply to write for the Cooperative Business Journal at [email protected]. • Write op-eds and letters to the editor for local, regional and national papers. Development • Consider donating to the Cooperative Development Foundation at www.cdf.coop/donate/. • Co-operate to establish new co-ops in your community.
- 28. 2018 Cooperative IMPACT Conference Cooperative IMPACT Conference 2018 • October 3-5, 2018 at the Sheraton Pentagon City, Arlington, VA Cooperative Festival 2018 • October 6 and 7, 2018 on the National Mall in Washington, DC Register at: www.impactconference.coop
- 29. Doug O’Brien President & CEO NCBA CLUSA [email protected] Thank You!
- 30. NFCA Seventh Annual Meeting 2018 QUESTIONS, FEEDBACK, IDEAS
- 31. NFCA Seventh Annual Meeting 2018 THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
- 32. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS NFCA Seventh Annual Meeting 2018