January 21, 2012: 
Cooperative Communication Workshop – February 4, 2012, at International Cooperative House, 140 West Gilman Street

Living in cooperation means opportunities for learning about ourselves and others abound.  We all know that communication skills are important, but what does that actually look, sound, and feel like when we are in conflict with someone we live with and care about? Join us to explore how to communicate  more effectively and live out the values of cooperation, compassion, and respect.  Learn a simple, effective process through a combination of lecture, small group practice, and large group discussion. For more information and to register, visit the Cooperative Communication Workshop page.

January 13, 2012:
Evaluate Staff Members
Two of our staff are at the end of their 6-month probationary contracts, which means that we are reviewing them. Any MCC member has the opportunity to evaluate these staff people by filling out a form on our website. To evaluate Michael, our Maintenance Coordinator, click here. To evaluate Rek, our Member Services Coordinator, click here. These evaluations will be available until January 25, 2012.

We will be having our staff evaluation meeting, open to all, on Friday, January 27 at 6pm. Feel free to stop by if you have any concerns, praises or improvement ideas for our staff members. We will hear these for the first half of the meetings. Michael’s meeting is from 6-7pm, and Rek’s meeting is from 7:30-8:30pm. The meeting will be held at Phoenix Cooperative, 636 Langdon Street.

December 6, 2011:
Worker Group Opportunity: Photos of MCC in Action!
We’re building up a new website, and we need images of all MCC houses to populate the pages. These images need to be of the houses and the people in the houses – photos that really show the nature of our co-ops and the people within them.

To learn more about the opportunity, visit the full description of the position. If you are interested, email Michael Carlson <maintenance4mcc@gmail.com> and Kevin Gibbons <kevinmgibbons@gmail.com> or call the office (251-2667) ASAP.

November 30, 2011:
The MCC Workshop Application form is now available online! If you have a workshop that you’d like to organize or lead for MCC members, fill out the application to get funding.

November 18, 2011:
In partnership with UW Credit Union and the Dane County UW-Extension Financial Education Center, MCC is bringing you a series of workshops about the financial world. We are planning to do one workshop a month for 8 months, from January to August of 2012. Please take our survey to gauge interest in the topics and to schedule this series effectively.

October 31, 2011:

The Madison Community Co-operative now proudly hosts the bottomlining artist (Francesco, or, Cesco, for short) of The Faces of Madtown, A Portrait-Story Project of The City of Four Lakes.

All Madisonians who build community or local economy, connect with their land or achieve self-empowerment, who make this city and bioregion a special place may include themselves by writing their narratives upon a portrait drawn and painted of them by The Portrait-Story artist – Co-op members especially are encouraged to write about their experience self-organizing as members of intentional communities. For more information or to get involved, visit the MCC’s Portrait Story Project page.

October 19, 2011:

Slow Food – UW would like to give a special thank you to the Madison Community Cooperative for their generous grant to the Slow Food – UW Cafe. We would love to invite all MCC members to come see our project in action. Enjoy lunch with us Wednesdays from 11:30am – 2:00pm at The Crossing, 1127 University Ave! http://slowfooduw.wordpress.com/.
Note from MCC: Slow Food – UW was one of 4 community groups who received Community Services Trust Fund (CHIP) grants from MCC in the fall of 2011. The others were Operation Welcome Home, Groundwork, and Freewheel Community Bike Shop.

September 24-25, 2011:

Here are photos of participants and pretty flowers at the Board retreat in the Friendship Center in Dodgeville, WI.

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