The Co-op Academy Leaders Cohort is a chance to connect with co-op members across the city, develop your leadership skills, and strengthen your co-op. In addition to free monthly trainings you’ll have the chance to:
Registration for this year’s cohort will take place in person during our February 8th Orientation Breakfast. Click the button below to sign up for the Orientation to learn more about participating in this year’s cohort.
Our Co-op Leadership Cohort is open to anyone that would like to develop a deeper knowledge of the foundational
components to developing and managing limited equity co-ops effectively. Registration is on a first come first served basis and all members must commit to the following participation requirements:
Connects co-op members across the DMV area, discusses DC’s long history of cooperative housing, and provides an overview of this year’s Co-op Academy curriculum.
Go through the steps of updating your co-op’s budget with hands-on guidance from co-op development finance experts.
Learn how to use an asset management checklist to provide oversight to your property management company and ensure your co-op stays in compliance with all its financial and legal requirements.
Provides resources and strategies for identifying and assessing the feasibility of grants and loans for co-op building improvements.
Get strategies and help preparing for co-op general membership, including how to communicate complex or sensitive information and how to facilitate collective decision making in the meeting.
Develop a plan to collect and share feedback between the co-op board and general membership, boost membership participation in meetings, and create a pathway for more balanced distribution of participation among board and general members.
Cohort members will collectively decide on the topic for this second in-person community meal.
Co-ops will create or update a digital organization structure for all co-op essential documents alongside a process for how these documents can be maintained and accessed as needed during transitions in the co-op.
Create or update a development dashboard for your co-op that tracks co-op progress through renovation, post-renovation asset management, and long-term future maintenance projects.
Cohort members will present their learnings and results from implementing their action plans and celebrate the completion of their curriculum with a community dinner of co-op members, co-op service providers, and District leaders.
