Events & meetings

Doughnut Economics Action Lab's fourth annual Global Donut Days: a five-day, community-led festival of online and in-person events around the world where people putting Doughnut Economics into practice share what they're doing. This year's sessions cover cities, land and food, who gets to make decisions, ancestral economies and Indigenous voices, and art and imagination — from a Global Doughnut Day evening in San Francisco and a Greater Manchester data-portrait workshop to an online session for educators teaching ecological economics. Each session is posted and run by a local group or community member; find one near you, or an online one, on the festival page and register for it individually.

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↻ Every Monday at 12pm (Boston time), online. RSVP on Ujima's events page. · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026

A weekly open office-hours session from Boston Ujima Project where current and aspiring food business owners can meet Ujima's Restaurant Fellow, restaurateur Biplaw Rai, for candid conversation and advice on the realities of running a food business — startup challenges, logistics and staffing, community engagement, branding, and growth. Online; RSVP through Ujima's events page.

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↻ Last Monday of every month, 2pm ET (11am PT), one hour on Zoom. · starts Oct 26, 2026 · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026

A monthly meeting of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives' peer network for cooperatives in the audiovisual, print, and digital media industry, for mutual support and shared learning. USFWC states that the peer network is open to non-members. Held on Zoom in English; one hour.

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A two-hour online panel from the Foundation for Intentional Community on how cooperatives, community land trusts, cohousing, and multigenerational households make housing affordable in practice — and keep it that way. Five practitioners talk candidly about what has worked and what has been hard: longtime organizer and former FIC executive director Sky Blue, intergenerational-living researcher Savannah Fishel, Madison community land trust and cohousing board member Beth Welch, LIFT Economy's Erin Axelrod, and Hugh Farrell of the Indiana Cooperative Development Center. Includes audience Q&A. Pay-what-you-can, starting at $0. 12-2pm CT.

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↻ Every Wednesday from 6pm ET, in person in Boston; the venue varies, so check Ujima's events page for each week's location and RSVP. · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026

Boston Ujima Project's weekly member meetings, open to the public and dedicated to financial and political education and to Ujima's member working groups. Autumn 2026 sessions are a series on money — a talkback on "hard currencies" with Dr. Jared Ball and Dr. Erika Brown, "Monetary Trust" with Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, and a history of money with legal historian Christine Desan, author of Making Money — alongside hands-on workshops such as a mending session. Venue changes week to week (several are at COOP Social Club in Jamaica Plain); Ujima posts each one on its events page. Past sessions are on Ujima's YouTube channel.

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↻ Six Wednesdays, 10am-12pm CT, on Zoom: October 28; November 4, 11, and 18; December 2 and 9, 2026 (no class on November 25). · starts Oct 28, 2026 · until Dec 9, 2026 · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026

A six-week live online course from the Foundation for Intentional Community, taught by Jahia de Rose, on how equity and power show up inside intentional communities — across class and wealth, national origin, language, race, gender, and ownership stakes — and what to do about it. Covers foundational equity principles, communication strategies, transformative governance models, conflict navigation, and tactics for redistributing power, in everyday language. Each class is recorded and posted within 24 hours, with a discussion group for participants. Paid: prices on the course page start from $80, with $120 also listed.

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↻ Usually the last Wednesday of the month, 4pm ET (1pm PT), 75 minutes on Zoom — but not always: November 2026's call is on Wednesday, November 18. Check USFWC's calendar for each month's date. · starts Oct 28, 2026 · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026

The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives' Union Co-ops Council, which builds bridges between worker cooperatives and organized labor, holds a monthly call that USFWC lists as public. Participants plan workshops at labor and co-op conferences, share information and resources about local union co-op projects, and arrange media exchanges. Free; 75 minutes on Zoom; English only. The council's own site is unioncoops.org.

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An evening celebrating cooperatives at Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative in Northeast Minneapolis, aimed squarely at people who are new to co-ops or co-op curious. Meet more than 20 local co-ops — credit unions, housing co-ops, food co-ops, worker-owned businesses, energy and interpreter cooperatives — with snacks, coupons, and swag at each table, co-op bingo with prizes, and a cooperative art project. The first 150 people to register get a drink ticket; kid-friendly, with a food truck. Co-hosted by CoMinnesota, Cooperative Development Services, the Minnesota Credit Union Network, the Twin Cities grocery co-ops (Eastside, Rivers, Seward, Wedge), the Minnesota Coalition of Community Owned Real Estate, and Broken Clock. Register on Eventbrite. 4-7pm CT.

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A 90-minute global Zoom webinar from the International Cooperative Alliance and its Working Group on Cooperative Cultural Heritage, marking the International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage. It looks at how cooperatives help communities sustain living traditions — crafts, cultural practices, the livelihoods tied to them — and pass them to younger generations, drawing on ICA's cooperative heritage list, and launches a policy brief linking co-ops to UNESCO's 2003 Convention and the International Decade of Culture for Sustainable Development (2027-2036). Open to members, friends, and partner organizations; interpretation in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. 13:00-14:30 CET.

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↻ Four Mondays — November 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2026 — 1-3pm ET (10am-12pm PT), on Zoom. · starts Nov 2, 2026 · until Nov 23, 2026 · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026

A Bookkeeping Cooperative's most popular public workshop: four weekly 2-hour Zoom sessions covering essential financial terms and the four core financial reports — budget, cash flow, profit & loss, and balance sheet — as tools for a group's goals and values. Beginner-friendly and participatory, with closed captioning; ASL, CART, or advance slides on request at least two weeks before the first session. One ticket covers the full series, sliding scale $150-$2,000. Not recorded; slides and resources are shared with attendees.

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↻ First Wednesday of every month, 3pm ET (12pm PT), 90 minutes on Zoom. Register for each session from USFWC's calendar. · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026

A free monthly 90-minute Zoom webinar from the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives for groups and people at the very earliest stages of a worker cooperative project — the key steps toward getting off the ground, where problems often occur, and chapters on building a group's democratic capacity, business, and environment of support, in a participatory conversational format. Attendees are offered 30 minutes of free consulting from USFWC afterwards. Free, with no membership requirement stated on the registration page — one of the lowest-barrier entry points in this directory. Presented in English; USFWC posts Spanish-language sessions separately on its calendar. Donations optional.

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The National Association of Housing Cooperatives' yearly national gathering of housing co-op members, board members, managers, and professionals — NAHC calls it its biggest gathering of the year. The 2026 program opens with a keynote on housing cooperatives in Puerto Rico facing a new generation of challenges, then runs concurrent sessions on board roles (treasurer, secretary, board-only sessions), co-op finances, fair housing, and harassment prevention, plus an exhibit hall, a group luncheon, and a first-time attendee orientation. Held at the Wyndham Grand Rio Mar resort in Río Grande, about 30 minutes from San Juan. Open to non-members: late-rate registration is $1,175 for non-members and $1,075-$1,100 for NAHC members, by registration form with prepayment; refunds ended September 25. An optional Registered Cooperative Manager certification course runs beforehand, Nov 2-3, for an extra fee.

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A 90-minute online session from Transition Network's Inner and Cultural Transformation circle, using the new moon as a moment to pause and turn inward. This one treats peace as a practice rather than an ideal — how we meet difference, listen, repair, and hold many perspectives — with Austrian peace researcher and intercultural conflict-transformation facilitator Julia Thandiwe Felder. In English with subtitles; sign up on the session page. 17:00-18:30 UTC.

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The Platform Cooperativism Consortium's 2026 conference, co-convened with PCC Thailand at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and following its 2025 Istanbul event on cooperatives and AI. It asks who builds, owns, and governs AI, and brings together researchers, co-op leaders and worker-owners, AI developers, labor organizers, feminist, queer, and disability-rights advocates, journalists, and artists. The format mixes invited talks, reverse panels, design clinics, and hands-on workshops, aimed at a collectively written set of "Bangkok Theses" and a shared Solidarity AI glossary. Featured projects include farmer-run data and climate-resilience co-ops in India, Thailand, and Indonesia. Pre-conference sessions on November 10-11 include a day-long Feminist AI workshop by IT for Change. In person; register through the conference page (no fee or online option is stated).

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A beginner-friendly two-hour online workshop from the Foundation for Intentional Community, led by Lee Warren, for people thinking about joining an intentional community. It works through assessing what you need, what you can offer, and what makes a community a good match, and ends with drafting a preliminary letter to your future community. Pay-what-you-can, starting at $0. 1-3pm CT.

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A Spanish-language, two-hour Zoom workshop from A Bookkeeping Cooperative on basic financial concepts and the four most common reports — profit & loss, budget, cash flow projection, and balance sheet. Interactive and designed for every level, from absolute beginners to people looking to communicate more clearly about finances. Sliding-scale tickets, including free tickets. 6-8pm ET (3-5pm PT).

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A 50-minute Zoom webinar for business owners, co-hosted by the DC Small Business Development Center and Project Equity, covering exit-planning options and how to prepare for a sale, then a deeper look at employee ownership: how it works, the different models, what makes a business ready, and how employee-ownership transactions are usually financed. 12pm ET.

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↻ Third Thursday of every month, 1pm ET (10am PT), one hour on Zoom. · starts Nov 19, 2026 · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026

A monthly meeting of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives' peer network for workers starting or operating cooperative cannabis businesses, to connect, learn, and organize. Free; one hour on Zoom; English.

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↻ Fourth Wednesday of odd-numbered months (January, March, May, …), 5pm ET (2pm PT), one hour on Zoom. Check USFWC's calendar for the next date. · starts Nov 25, 2026 · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026

A space organized by the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives for Black people in the cooperative movement to strategize, uplift one another, exchange resources, and build relationships. USFWC says you don't have to be a member to join, and that anyone interested in collective ownership is welcome whatever their level of experience. Held on Zoom in English; one hour.

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A one-session, 2-hour online workshop from A Bookkeeping Cooperative going deeper into key accounting concepts — the accounting equation, journal entries, debits and credits — aimed at people who already have a solid foundational understanding of financial reports. Sliding-scale tickets ($75-$600). Part of ABC's ongoing public workshop series on financial education for cooperatives and mission-driven organizations.

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↻ Two Mondays — December 7 and 14, 2026 — 1-3pm ET (10am-12pm PT), on Zoom. · starts Dec 7, 2026 · until Dec 14, 2026 · schedule confirmed Oct 21, 2026

A two-session, hands-on beginner workshop from A Bookkeeping Cooperative on the fundamentals of spreadsheets — formulas, multi-tab workbooks whose tabs talk to each other, layout, and formatting — taught by building a sample organizational budget template in Google Sheets. It teaches the spreadsheet skills, not budgeting itself. Participants must attend both sessions and need Google Sheets on a computer. Sliding-scale tickets ($125-$1,200) cover both sessions.

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A lunch-hour Zoom session for the co-op curious: what cooperatives are, how they connect to the wider cooperative movement, and why they matter now, with time for questions. Register through CoMinnesota's events page. 12-1pm CT.

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The international gathering of the Transition movement, marking 20 years of Transition, at Salema Eco Camp in the Vicentina Coast Natural Park (Vila do Bispo, Algarve, Portugal), a venue running a regenerative tourism project. Three days of festival (June 4-6) for people from across the movement and aligned organizations, then two optional days of Deep Dives for training and learning (June 7-8); hub members are also invited to strategy meetings beforehand. Camping, glamping, and other accommodation on site, with an accommodation discount for participants. Registration and a dedicated website open in November 2026.

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