Welcome to the CEND Member Portal!

Here you’ll find the community calendar, resource library and technical assistance directory, the link to the member community forum and our Needs & Offerings Listing tool, and community announcements & reminders!




NETWORK ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS

Upcoming Events!

Check here for events on the community calendar happening soon!

(View the complete Community Calendar with all network meetups, meetings, workshops, and trainings, plus events from your peers to support by scrolling down to the bottom of this page).

Q2(ish) Member Hangout: Plant & Hang at Beaverland Farms!

Thurs, July 18 5-8p/whenever @ 15078 Beaverland St

Drop in between 5-8p and stay for as long as you like at Beaverland Farms at our Q2 member meetup! If you’re down to get your hands dirty come to help seed & plant, or just stick around to eat food & hang out around a bonfire!

Q2 Skills Training w/ DCWF: Finances for Co-ops

Thurs, Aug 3 6-8p @ 27th Letter Books

Member Ask/Offering of the Day

Check here for the most recent asks & offerings on the CEND Member Community Forum and/or the Needs & Offerings Listing Sheet, both linked below. Wondering what we mean by asks and offerings? Scroll down for the link to the Needs & Offerings Listing Sheet with more information!


CEND MEMBER SLACK

If you have not been added to the community Slack already, email CENDETROIT@GMAIL.COM and let us know!

 

CEND MEMBER COMMUNITY NEEDS & OFFERINGS LISTING

Think of this spreadsheet like a “craigslist” of mutual aid/skill share/trading for Detroit co-ops & democratic collectives. In it you can post any calls for support you have or offerings you can make to the community at any given time. The sheet is organized by category for user convenience, so you can easily search for offerings postings that correspond with your need, and vice versa. 

You get to negotiate between yourself and the person you are exchanging with how you want to go about making that exchange. For example, with every offering, you might say that you are willing to accept a goods trade, a skills trade, cash payment, or sweat equity down the line. If you are making a request, you might say that you can offer any of the above-- or a specific skill you have-- in exchange for the support.

Check out the sheet for more detailed instructions on how to use it! 


What counts as a “need” or “ask”?

A need or ask can be just about any kind of support, task, or good you're in need of that you want to ask of your community that you'd be willing to exchange for your time, money, or a specific form of support (ex: a skills trade). 

Some needs/asks might look like:

  • a few extra hands on the farm one week

  • a babysitter

  • someone to read over your co-op's bylaws 

  • someone to work the door at an event

  • a ride once a week

  • a tarot reading or other spiritual service

basically whatever you might need!


What counts as an “offering”?

An offering can be just about anything you can offer your community-- from skills to goods-- that you'd be willing to exchange for time, money, or a specific form of support (ex: a skills trade). 

Some offerings might include:

  • extra seeds or transplants you might have

  • copy editing services 

  • photography services 

  • reiki or other wellness sessions

  • working electronics you don't want to just toss out

you get the idea! 

MEMBER RESOURCE LIBRARY

The resource library is a directory of educational resources, business/cooperative development tools, technical assistance, and the Wealth Fund’s Coop Startup Workbook and Toolkit. (Note: there are lots of helpful resources, writings, tools, and exercises contained in the workbook and toolkit that are not listed in the library. Please check it out when looking up a topic!)

Not seeing something you need support with? Don’t hesitate to request a topic be added to the directory, ask a question, or schedule a meeting for help by emailing rosie@detroitcommunitywealth.org.

  • These tools are the workbook & toolkit developed by DCWF for our 2021 Coop Incubator Program. They are designed to be as user-friendly as possible to guide any worker coop from the ideation phase to the point of beginning their startup journey and compiling the materials necessary to begin the loan intake process with the Wealth fund. Some writing and resources are original, others are sourced from other organizations credited within each.

    The Toolkit contains the necessary texts and instruction to complete the exercises in the Workbook.

    Once the Workbook is completed, your group will have a first draft of a complete business plan.

    Below is the table of contents for the Toolkit, corresponding to the sections of the Workbook. Each section contains resources and writing not listed in this library. For any topic you’re looking for, we strongly encourage you to look through the relevant sections of the Toolkit and Workbook and browse the resources linked within both.

    Never hesitate to reach out with any questions about completing any of the exercises. rosie@detroitcommunitywealth.org

    Please also make a COPY of both documents— DO NOT DIRECTLY EDIT.

    (Note that these are living documents that are constantly being updated and edited. Send suggestions to the email above!)

    COOP STARTUP TOOLKIT 2021

    COOP STARTUP WORKBOOK 2021

    • Getting Started

      • How to Use This Guide

      • What is a Co-op?

    • Section 1: Envisioning your Co-op

      • Vision Statement

      • Mission & Values Statements

      • Co-op Name Brainstorming

      • Your Co-op’s Inspiration

    • Section 2: Your Team & Determining Start-Up Roles

    • Section 3: Business Model Canvas: Your Value Proposition & Revenue Streams

    • Section 4: Governance & Management

      • How to Have Meetings

      • Deciding How to Decide

      • Your Governance & Management Structure

    • Section 5: Market Feasibility

      • Your Customer Profiles

      • Customer Demand Survey & Analysis

      • Competition Survey & Analysis

    • Section 6: Creating a Minimum Viable Product

      • Planning the Phases of Your Co-op

    • Section 7: Marketing & Branding

      • Revisiting Mission & Values

      • Building a Brand Statement

      • Outreach Strategies

      • Creating Branding Materials

      • Your Social Media Presence

      • Your Marketing Budget

    • Section 8: Financial Feasibility

      • Industry interviews

      • Start-Up Materials List

      • Creating a Budget

      • Your Break Even Analysis

      • Product Pricing

    • Section 9: Cooperative Ownership Structure & Open-Book Accounting

      • Patronage & Dividends

      • Accounting for Co-ops

    • Section 10: Incorporating Your Co-op

      • Determining Entity

      • How to File

    • Section 11: Our Operating Agreement & Setting Policies

      • Basics of Operating Agreements

      • Creating Anti-Oppression Policies

      • 28 Questions to Answer to Build Operating Agreement

      • Operating Agreement Templates

    • Section 12: Steps to Start Up

      • Start-Up Checklist

      • Finalizing Your Start-Up Roles

      • Building Your 4-Month Work Plan

  • African American Cooperatives

    Dr. Jessica Gordan Nembhard, 2012

    A brief overview of the history of Black coops in America.

    From Banks and Tanks to Cooperation & Caring: a Strategic Framework for a Just Transition

    Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project

    A pamphlet outlining a strategic framework for a fair shift to an economy that is eco-logically sustainable, equitable and just for all its members and that provides dignified, productive and ecologically sustainable livelihoods that are governed directly by workers and communities.

    History of Cooperatives in the United States: An Overview

    Lynn Pitman, UW Center for Cooperatives, 2018

    “Cooperative organizations have been organized throughout history to meet many different needs.”

    Educate and Empower Tools for Building Community Wealth

    By Keane Bhatt and Steve Dubb, 2015

    Low-income communities and communities of color, in challenging structural economic and social inequality, have historically grappled with tensions inherent to development. Who participates in, directs, and ultimately owns the economic-development process? In creating and sustaining new, inclusive economic institutions, how do community members cultivate and pass on skills, commitment and knowledge—especially among those who have long faced barriers to education and employment? And how should communities strike an appropriate balance between utilizing local knowledge and accessing outside expertise? This report draws on case studies of 11 different community economic development initiatives from across the United States to highlight a diverse set of powerful answers to these critical questions.

    Cooperation Buffalo Training: Cooperative History, Principles, & Values

    A basic breakdown of how to define capitalism, class, class struggle, and coops.

    Collective Courage- A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

    Dr Jessica Gordon Nebmhard, 2014

    In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business owner-ship and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. DuBois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty-first century.

    Useful Strategies to Create a Sustainable Activist Culture

    Cheyenna Weber, 2010

    7 Co-operative Principles

    International Cooperative Alliance, 1995

    The International Cooperative Alliance is the global steward of the Statement on the Cooperative Identity – the Values and Principles of the cooperative movement. In 1995, the ICA adopted the revised Statement on the Cooperative Identity which contains the definition of a cooperative, the values of cooperatives, and the seven cooperative principles.

    From Philanthropic Black Capitalism to Socialism: Cooperativism in DuBois' Economic Thought

    Curtis Haynes, Jr, 2019

    “Du Bois’s understanding of economic cooperation matured over the years and changed to fit the times. In the second half of the 20th century, he was discouraged by the sharp militaristic shift to the right in his own country while mesmerized by the social revolutions erupting across the planet. In this cauldron he shifted from consumer cooperation toward worker empowerment through socialist state intervention, a position that corresponded to his advocacy of the Pan Africanism that he first considered decades earlier. What remained constant in his expanding intellectual and global perspective was the notion of cooperativism rooted in societal norms of this negro group. Du Bois built upon this, reserving a portion of his tenacious intellectual and activist appetite to include an identification of societal cooperation and linking it to a policy of economic self-betterment and emancipation through cooperative economics.”

  • Cooperative Equity & Ownership: An Introduction

    Margaret Lund, 2013

    “The purpose of this manual is to provide an introduction to one very important aspect of cooperative enterprise, that of member economic participation through the co-op’s ownership or equity structure. While the manual is not intended to cover every situation or sector (we do not discuss housing cooperative, for example, a topic that would take a manual all its own), it is designed to provide a basic introduction to the underpinnings of the cooperative model of ownership as well as an understanding of some of the practical applications of its use.”

    Cooperative & Worker Ownership Decision Matrix

    A chart breaking down the decisions a coop must make to shape their ownership structure.

    Cooperative Business Ownership

    Cooperation Buffalo

    A basic breakdown of patronage dividends and co-op taxation.

    Articles of Incorporation, Choosing an Entity, and Patronage Dividends

    Detroit Community Wealth Fund, 2020

    Short powerpoint

    Internal Capital Accounts: an Illustrated Guide to the Internal Capital Account System for Worker Coops

    The International Cooperative Alliance

    Worker Coop Toolbox

    Northcountry Cooperative Foundation

    A 79-page guide to cooperative employee ownership.

  • Choosing a Business Entity: A Guide for Worker Cooperatives

    Democracy at Work Institute

    This resource is intended to give a brief overview of the entity types and lay out the issues worker cooperatives may want to consider when choosing which is the best fit for the business at whatever stage it is currently in.

    Articles of Incorporation, Choosing an Entity, and Patronage Dividends

    Detroit Community Wealth Fund, 2020

    Short powerpoint

  • The Ecosystem Assessment Tool (Guide)

    Ecosystem Assessment Bubble Chart (Tool)

    Democracy at Work Institute

    “The Ecosystem Assessment Tool helps you analyze the ecosystem elements in your community by ranking existing relationships, current infrastructure, prevailing culture, and available resources. By assigning a score for each element, this Tool will then generate a bubble chart indicating the relative strengths and gaps of your ecosystem. No community is the same, and no community has the perfect conditions in place for worker cooperatives (yet). Each community will have a different set of opportunities and intervention points. The purpose of this analysis is for you to see how you might leverage your strengths and resources to build out the missing Essential, Important, and Environmental elements. Our intention is that you are able to identify –based on your knowledge of local issues, economic drivers, and the political environment— what might be the game-changers for worker cooperative growth.”

  • Marketing Plans

    Detroit Community Wealth Fund, 2020

    A powerpoint guide to branding, social media strategies, pricing strategies, knowing your customer, and a list of unique methods to reach your customers.

    The Guide to Nonprofit Storytelling

    Classy.org

    “Nonprofit organizations must rely on stories to connect with their audience and build a community around their mission. Through storytelling, nonprofits can illustrate problems, articulate solutions, and forge emotional connections to attract supporters. To help you discover and share your organization’s story, we created this guide on the essentials you need to know. We’ll start with why storytelling matters in marketing and move on to the elements that make up good stories and the different ways to tell them. Finally, we’ll give some practical tips on how nonprofit organizations can mobilize their staff and supporters to capture the inspiring stories unfolding around their causes.”

    Name Creation, Visual Identity, Early-Stage Marketing & Communications

    Zaakir Abdus-Salaam, 2021

    Sales & Marketing

    Author Unknown

    Defining marketing “for good,” the basics of the “sales funnel” & stages of customer awareness & relationship, and crafting a sales pitch.

  • Business Financials 101: Understanding Basic Business Financial Statements

    The Working World

    Powerpoint covering profit and loss statements and financial projections using Red Emmas Cooperative Coffee Shop as an example.

    Participatory Budgeting for Organizations Toolkit

    Democracy Beyond Elections

    “Participatory budgeting—or “PB”—is a democratic process for sharing decision-making power. In the PB process, community members decide together how to spend all or part of a budget. Practicing PB internally is one way for organizations committed to racial and social justice to live their values. Run the right way, it can be a powerful tool for redistributing power, regardless of participants’ formal roles inside or outside of your organization. This guide is designed to help groups and organizations implement PB internally, with members, staff, partners, donors, and/or other organizational stakeholders. On the following pages, you’ll find resources to guide you through the process of advocating for, planning, and implementing PB in your organization, from deciding what goals you’d like to accomplish with PB, to evaluating a process once it’s done.”

    Breaking Even, Profit & Loss, Value Propositions, Revenue Model, and Financial Projections

    Detroit Community Wealth Fund, 2020

    Powerpoint on basic financial terms and how to create a pro forma.

    Cost of Goods Sold

    Author Unknown

    Simple breakdown of calculating COGS and markup.

    Breakeven Financial Model and Pro forma Template

    Detroit Community Wealth Fund, 2021

    A guided spreadsheet and template for calculating cost of goods sold, your basic and detailed breakeven, and your pro forma to breakeven projection.

    Please MAKE A COPY, do not directly edit

    Non-extractive Financing with Detroit Community Wealth Fund

    Detroit Community Wealth Fund, 2020

    An overview of DCWF’s lending process, loan criteria and terms, and what we mean by “non-extractive financing.”

    Basic Business Financials: 10 Key Terms to Know

    Author Unknown

    Business Financial Literacy

    Cooperation Buffalo

    Business budgeting and distinguishing the four different types of financial statements and five different types of accounts.

    Innovative Financial Models to Spur Worker to Owner Conversions

    Concerned Capital

    A 41-page evaluation of three financial models for the purpose of expediting the conversion of private companies to employee ownership.

  • Business Model Canvas

    Basic blank business model canvas template.

    Business Model Canvas Stations

    Author Unknown

    A helpful description of each of the stations of the business model canvas clarifying how to fill them out.

    Building a Business Model Canvas: Your Customer Persona

    Alexander Cowan

    How to meaningfully identify and connect with your business’s “customer persona.”

  • Anti-Oppressive Meeting Facilitation

    Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance

    Infiltration: How Values of Oppressive Systems Tend to Arise in Coops (and What We Can Do About It)

    Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance

    Red flags and indicators of oppressive values in policy, meetings, and more.

    Toward an Anti-Oppressive Workplace

    Cooperation Buffalo

    A digestible breakdown of terms, and examples of anti-oppressive workplace tactics.

    White Supremacy Aspects & Antidotes

    Tema Okun

    How white supremacy culture can show up in workplace policies and interpersonal and group dynamics at work and how to address different forms of it.

    Approaches to Power Inequality Within organizations

    Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance

    Dismantling Anti-Black Bias in Democratic Workplaces: A Tool Kit

    Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance

  • Coming soon!

  • Creating Participatory Bylaws for Distributed Power & Equity

    Chris Tittle & Simon Mont, 2018

    Questions to inform your worker cooperative legal documents

    Democracy at Work Institute

    49 questions to answer that cover all aspects of what goes into bylaws.

    Bylaws and Operating Agreements: A Guide for Worker Cooperatives

    Democracy at Work Institute

    A short PDF guide to what goes into bylaws and operating agreements.

    Worker Co-op Bylaws 101

    Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance

    A breakdown of the structure of coop bylaws and how they create the co-op’s democratic structure.

    Sample Operating Agreement by Meerkat Media LLC

    Meerkat Media Cooperative, 2018

    A production coop’s complete operating agreement that can be used as a template for other coops.

    Sample Bylaws Template - Blank

    Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

    A blank bylaws template. Short.

    Northwest Construction Cooperative Bylaws Sample

    Northwest Constructive Cooperative

    A construction coop’s complete bylaws that can be used as a template for other coops. Mid length.

    Sample Bylaws for a Worker Cooperative

    Green Collar Communities Clinic, Sustainable Economies Law Center

    A thorough blank bylaws template. Long.

    Sample Operating Agreement Template - Blank

    Author unknown

    Blank operating agreement template.

    Sample Policies & Procedures by Meerkat Media Cooperative

    Meerkat Media Cooperative, 2021

    A complete policy handbook covering E. Member Duties and rights Member Rights, Accountability, Anti-Oppression, Conflict Resolution & Peer Evaluation, money management, and more.

  • Think Outside the Boss, How to Create a Worker Owned Business

    Sustainable Economies Law Center, Green Collar Communities Clinic

    A 161-page book covering all aspects of starting a worker coop and how it differs from starting a traditional business, including financing, converting a traditional business to a coop, employment law, and accounting.

    Steps to starting a Worker Co-op

    Gary Hansen, E. Kim Coontz, Audrey Malan, 1997

    45-page booklet on starting a worker coop.

    Worker Coop Toolbox

    Northcountry Cooperative Foundation in partnership with Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund

    A 79-page guide to cooperative employee ownership.

    Worker Coop 101

    Boston Center for Cooperative Ownership

    The basics of the history of worker coops, member rights and responsibilities, and how to start a worker cooperative.

    A Worker Collective vs. Cooperative

    Author Unknown

    Write up of the difference between coops vs collectives.

    Loan Application Process Overview & Loan Readiness Checklist

    Detroit Community Wealth Fund, 2020

    DCWF’s lending process and our criteria for a coop’s readiness to receive a loan.

    Self-Assessment of Member Business Skills

    Cooperation Buffalo

    A handy self-assessment checklist to help coop members determine their skillset and help shape the best role for themselves within the coop.

    Cooperative Glossary

    Cooperation Buffalo

    A glossary of terms relevant to the history and values of cooperatives, being part of a coop, financial terms, and more.

  • Governance Decisions vs. Operations/Management Decisions Chart

    The Working World

    A handy chart to help distinguish which part of a coop is responsible for which types of decision making processes.

    Democratic Governance and Participatory Management

    Andrew Delmonte

    A powerpoint breaking down participatory management, and grievance processes, communication within democratic governance.

    Sociocracy: Basic Concepts & Principles

    Ted Rau, Sociocracy for All, 2022

    Sociocracy is a nonhierarchical governance system utilized by many coops, also referred to as “dynamic self-governance.” It is based on distributed power, “work circles,” and circular accountability. This site contains resources for organizing your coop/org’s governance system sociocratically as well as useful case-studies.

    Democratic Governance: The Design of Governance Systems for Worker Cooperatives

    The International Cooperative Alliance

    A thorough breakdown of board structures, tools for determining which part of a coop is responsible for which decisions in different situations, and models for governance systems for coops at different sizes and stages of development.

    Three Decision-Making Models

    Author Unknown

    Tips for and traps to avoid in democratic decision-making, consultative decision making, and consensus decision making.

    Horizontality & Leadership: Collective Management in Democratic Workplaces

    Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance

    Meerkat Media Collective Membership Guidelines

    Meerkat Media Collective

    A sample membership guideline with community agreements, community values, membership types, and policies surrounding shares, meetings, working groups, and member rights and responsibilities.

    Loomio

    A digital woorkspace tool for discussion and decision making, bringing together conversations, polls, information, opinions, proposals, collaborative files, facilitation tools, and outcomes in one place.

    Leading Like a Co-oper

    Author Unknown

    Principles and values of leadership within a cooperative.

    Sample Governance Agreement

    Meerkat Media Cooperative, 2021

    Sample governance structure of a production cooperative.

    How to Become a Worker Self-Directed Nonprofit: A Bite-Sized Legal Guide

    Sustainable Economies Law Center

    Collab Manual

    Cecile M. Green, 2020

    “All organizations have communication operating systems. They are essential to how we flow the information we need to get our work done. The trouble is that our operating systems are often implicit, or not consciously leveraged to consistently get productive solutions for ourselves, our relationships, and our organizations. These organizational operating systems can also be fractured, used partially or inconsistently, leaving some people in the dark when it comes to key conversations, decision making, and determining the balance of individual and shared leadership. CollabTM is the collaborative communication operating system we’ve researched and developed in response to these problems, synthesized from the best work in organizational and individual development to deliver collaborative power in action.”

    Group Roles in Meetings

    Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance

    Identifying positive, productive roles in meetings and negative, obstructive roles.

    Generative Power in Organizations

    Roundsky Solutions, 2013

    “A complex, multifaceted and hotly debated aspect of our existence, power influences every relationship and every context in our lives. As humans, we have struggled deeply with this facet of our existence and when events in our world reach crescendos of chaos and limited resources, the application of power has a nasty track record. In the process of constructing a practice for generative power that converts toxic human interactions into healthy, ethical action, this article integrates the work of Integral, organizational, communication and developmental theorists, expanding the metastudy of power in organizations to include several new frameworks for understanding generative power, its application, and its contexts.”

    The Organizational Power Matrix: Towards a Metapraxis of Power

    Cecile Green, 2013

    “This article presents a framework for developing a concrete practice of generative power in organizations. The article focuses on the concept of a metapraxis of power, which is defined as a set of concrete, learnable, repeatable patterns humans can enact in order to address organizational development issues. The foundation for a metapraxis of power is laid through understanding and evaluating generative power in organizations, beginning with parsing power and its implications. This leads to a discussion of organization, health, and ethics, woven into a matrix of power, which forms one of the bases for constructing a metapraxis of power.”

  • Center for Community Based Enterprise

    Legal, Business-Planning, Employee-Training, and Marketing Training & Consultation for Co-ops & Community-Based Businesses

    Contact: 313-429-5053 | info@c2be.org | contact form

    Visit Site

    Worker Owned Detroit

    Financing, Support, & Consultation for business owners looking to sell their business to their employees.

    Contact: info@detroitcommunitywealth.org | contact form

    Visit Site

    ProsperUS

    Entrepreneur Training, Micro-Lending, Consultation & Assistance in Accounting, Bookkeeping, Commercial Real Estate, Graphic Design, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing, Website Development, Food Consulting, and more.

    Contact: 313-586-0655 | info@@prosperusdetroit.org | contact form

    Visit Site

    Detroit Justice Center

    Review of governing documents & pro bono legal consultation for coops.

    Contact: 313-736-5957 | contact form

    Visit Site

    Grace in Action Detroit

    Grace in Action Collectives is a network of worker owned cooperatives and youth run collectives in southwest Detroit, providing skill training, back office support and cooperative business incubation to their network.

    Contact: 313-910-5997 | meghan@graceinactiondetroit.org

    Visit Site

    Center for Community-Based Enterprise Directory of Detroit Area Resources for Coops and Businesses

    Center for Community Based Enterprise, 2016

  • Wholehearted Bookkeeping Cooperative

    A women-owned accounting and financial consulting cooperative.

    Contact: contact form

    Visit Site

    A Bookkeeping Cooperative

    Bookkeeping, Financial Consulting, & Accounting Workshops.

    Contact: contact form

    Visit Site

    Capital Bookkeeping

    A worker-owned accounting & financial consulting co-op.

    Contact: info@capitalbookkeeping.coop

    Visit Site

    Wegner CPAs

    Bookkeeping, Controllership, Audits, Tax Returns, Development of Patronage Dividends Systems.

    Contact: contact form

    Visit Site

Peer Brainstorming Record

“So whatchall think” Q&As

View the questions/problems posed in past member meeting sowhatchallthink exercises and the feedback/answers/resources shared in response!

Upcoming CEND Community Events & Meetings

Stay up to date on network meetups, meetings, workshops, and trainings, plus events from your peers to support! This calendar includes both CEND events, workshops, and meetings as well as member-submitted events. Submit your group’s fundraisers, parties, community gatherings, direct actions, birthdays, whatever you want folks to know about!

Submit your event to have it listed on the community calendar by clicking the button to fill out the form below or sending an email to cendetroit@gmail.com.

Office Hours

Schedule a meeting with a DCWF program coordinator to talk through any co-op or CEND-related questions/comments you might have! Fill out the form below to schedule office hours.

 

Member Meeting Living Agenda

Click the button below to view the member meeting agenda. Add items you would like to be added to the next agenda under the section titled “Agenda Bucket.” Items can be something you’d like feedback on, a question you have, a new proposal for a member meetup, anything! However– you can always add things to the agenda at the meeting if you forget to do so beforehand (it also can’t be guaranteed that everything will always get covered in every meeting).

 

Member Programming Proposals/Requests Sheet

Add your ideas for future workshops, trainings, and social events in this sheet.

 

Member Solidarity Mini Grant Fund

The member mini grant fund is a pool of money created through member dues, outside donations, and a yearly contribution from DCWF. Members can submit withdrawal requests for sums up to $800 at any point once per year. 

Please be aware that these requests are only reviewed at member meetings— as in every 3 months, unless you designate that your request is more urgent. If your request is urgent, please email cendetroit@gmail.com or reach out to Rosie in Slack so that the request can be put through a virtual vote.

Withdrawal requests might be for:

  • A new small community project your organization is taking on, such as:

    • Community fridges, pantries, libraries, gardens, and closets

    • Events 

    • Direct actions & community organizing expenses

    • Whatever! 

  • New/unforeseen programming needs 

  • Seed funding for your startup/pilot project 

  • Small renovation projects

  • Severe emergencies

Please keep in mind when submitting that requests are only reviewed quarterly, and requests will be granted depending on available funds based on the decision of the group. 

Your request will be reviewed by members at the next member meeting. 

Peer Hangout Reimbursement Form

Did you plan a hangout between yourself/your group & another member organization? Use this form to request a reimbursement for up to $75 of what you spent!

Program Feedback Form

Do you have a concern? Idea to change how something is done? General feedback? To discuss it privately, use this form!

Miscellaneous Documents