CooperAcción Curriculum

More information about Part 1: Community organizers Ana Siria Urzua and Abel Ruiz lead CooperAcción: Curso de Cooperatives de trabajadores in Santa Ana weekly through a collaboration among Cooperacion Santa Ana, UCI Sustainability Resource Center, and UCI Community Resilience Projects. The class boasts over thirty participants and seventeen cooperatives among them. Cooperacion Santa Ana describes the class as a “cooperative business development program that offers training, coaching, and incubation to low-income residents and families of Santa Ana interested in growing additional income streams and developing their businesses.” The twelve sessions come with an opportunity to learn how to create worker cooperatives, frameworks for shifting from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy, as well as practices for personal and community wellbeing. The course also carries potential to shift the local economy in a more equitable direction via practices of democratic governance and reciprocity. The second cohort meets weekly January – May, 2021.