The 2016 CDF Cooperative Issues Forum

You're invited to the 6th Annual Cooperative Development Foundation Cooperative Issues Forum

Sponsored by the Ralph K. Morris Foundation

National Press Club
Washington, DC
May 4, 2016
1:30 - 5:00 pm

Register

There is no charge to attend the forum

Agenda
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm
Welcome and Introduction

Gap Kovach, Chair
Cooperative Development Foundation

1:40 pm - 3:30 pm
The Changing Nature of Work and the Role of Cooperatives

Moderator: Ellis Carr
Capital Impact Partners
Arlington, VA

Keynote Speaker: Vickie Choitz
Aspen Institute
Washington, DC

Panel:

Melissa Hoover
Democracy at Work Institute
Oakland, CA
Thomas Beckett
Carolina Common Enterprise
Durham, NC

Dan Arnett
Central Co-op
Seattle, Washington

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Break

4:00 pm - 5 pm
Hall of Fame Inductees Forum

Moderator: William Nelson
CHS Foundation, retired
Inver Grove Heights, MN

Panel:

Dennis Bolling,
United Producers, Inc.
Columbus, OH
Dennis Johnson
Cooperative Housing Resources, LLC.
Shoreview, MN

Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ph.D.
John Jay College, CUNY
New York City, NY

CDF Thanks the Ralph K. Morris Foundation For Sponsoring the 6th Annual Cooperative Issues Forum

The Ralph K. Morris Foundation supports the development of future cooperative leaders and sponsors programming that advances forward thinking, research, education and outreach in cooperative business, development, wise rural land use and leadership. The foundation was established in 2001 to perpetuate the memory of Ralph Morris and the contributions to rural America and the cooperative movement that he made during his legal career.