Workers Development will be available for Q+A after the NYC screening of Fixing the Future. This local screening is part of a nationwide event intended to generate discussion about sustainable local economies and build connections between local activist organizations.
Date: July 18th
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Chelsea Clearview Cinema (260 West 23rd Street, NY, NY 10011)
BALLE Accelerating Community Capital Webinar Series
Chris Michael will be the featured speaker for BALLE's Accelerating Community Capital Webinar Series. The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, or BALLE, is North America's fastest growing network of socially responsible businesses, comprised of over 80 community networks in 30 U.S. states and Canadian provinces representing over 22,000 independent business members across the U.S. and Canada.
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BALLE Accelerating Community Capital Webinar Series
Aug 14 2012 - 10:00am - 11:00am
PST
Webinar topic: Local Stock Offering Part 2: Worker Ownership and Direct Public Offerings
About the topic: Chris Michael and his partners at Workers Development have been working to create Workers Diner, a family-friendly dining establishment serving traditional New York City diner cuisine in the heart of Central Brooklyn. Pending funding through a Direct Public Offering (DPO) launched this spring, Workers Diner will be organized as a worker-controlled business, or worker cooperative, with all voting rights and profits retained by worker-owners. Of primary importance, Workers Diner’s founders intend on establishing a replicable model for the financing of worker-controlled businesses: with startup costs raised from local communities, profits and proceeds can remain in local communities. Chris will share the story of Workers Diner through the lens of a worker cooperative using a DPO as its community capital mechanism -- how they set the stage for this mechanism and how it is serving the business and community.
Registration is open for our summer Accelerating Community Captial webinars - register now!
Funding LaunchPad
Some very exciting news! Funding LaunchPad will feature Workers Diner as its first client on their innovative new online crowdfunding platform. By transitioning from our current "home-made" online purchasing mechanism to Funding LaunchPad, Workers Diner will gain all the knowledge and experience of FL's social media and crowdfunding expertise.
The new online platform will simplify the investment process, and allow investors to engage each other about the merits of our offering, as well as, to direct questions to the Workers team. The site will also feature quick links to video and audio content, offering documents, and provide snapshots of our funding success.
We'll be working closely with the FL team over the next two weeks for a July 13 launch date. Stay tuned for more!
For now, NY and CT can continue to invest via workersdiner.coop/invest!
May Day Launch Party!!!
You are invited to our May Day Launch Party!!! After working for three years to launch Workers Diner's public stock offering, we are ready to CELEBRATE! Please join us on Tuesday, May 1st at Brecht Forum in New York City for food, drinks, and music! We'll also have gifts for first-time investors, including books charitably contributed by Noam Chomsky, Gar Alperovitz and Immanuel Ness--as well as Equal Exchange chocolate bars!
Our launch party begins at 6pm. Brecht Forum is located on the West Side Highway in Manhattan at 451 West Street (between Bank and Bethune). The nearest train station is "West 4th Street" with the A/B/C/D/E/F/M. If you're not able to invest, don't worry, we'll still be glad you're there! If you are able, shares are $25 each, with a four share minimum. We'll have copies of our prospectus for you to take home with you. And we accept all forms of payment.
If you're interested in building a new economy, a post-capitalist economy, or a solidarity economy, then this event is for you. If you're intrigued with the potentials of crowdfinancing, crowdfunding, and crowdsourcing, then this is the event for you. If you are passionate about worker control and cooperation, and cooperativism, then this is DEFINITELY the event for you. Come, share, talk, eat, listen, drink, dance and celebrate May Day with Workers Diner!
Sincerely,
Workers Development
p.s. If you can't come--and we'll sorely miss you--you can also purchase shares today at www.workersdiner.coop/invest!
Our launch party begins at 6pm. Brecht Forum is located on the West Side Highway in Manhattan at 451 West Street (between Bank and Bethune). The nearest train station is "West 4th Street" with the A/B/C/D/E/F/M. If you're not able to invest, don't worry, we'll still be glad you're there! If you are able, shares are $25 each, with a four share minimum. We'll have copies of our prospectus for you to take home with you. And we accept all forms of payment.
If you're interested in building a new economy, a post-capitalist economy, or a solidarity economy, then this event is for you. If you're intrigued with the potentials of crowdfinancing, crowdfunding, and crowdsourcing, then this is the event for you. If you are passionate about worker control and cooperation, and cooperativism, then this is DEFINITELY the event for you. Come, share, talk, eat, listen, drink, dance and celebrate May Day with Workers Diner!
Sincerely,
Workers Development
p.s. If you can't come--and we'll sorely miss you--you can also purchase shares today at www.workersdiner.coop/invest!
Talk at Fordham Law Clinic
Workers Development was invited by Professor Gowri Krishna to speak with a community economic development legal clinic at Fordham Law School. On Thursday afternoon, we sat down to discuss securities, crowdfunding, and the meaning of community ownership. In particular, we analyzed the case of a community-supported agriculture program in Harlem and the South Bronx that would like to follow a public ownership model. We had a lot of fun!