The 2024 New York Cooperative Summit was held in Syracuse in Saturday May 4th, 2024. Around 100 people attended. Lunch was provided by consumer-owned Syracuse Cooperative Market, and coffee was donated by worker-owned Gimme Coffee.

Keynote speakers

• Jay Ward, CEO Emeritus of worker-owned Ward Lumber
• Micah Blumenthal worker trustee at the Good Work Institute
• Emmanuel Pardilla, Membership Director of the New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYC NoWC)
• Maurice “Mo” Brown, Onondaga County Legislature

Workshop presenters

• Mike Zak, cooperative developer for Cooperation Buffalo
• Alma Lowry, lecturer in Environmental Studies at Hamilton College and trainer with Columinate
• Zack Young, Director of Integrated Capital Solutions at Boston Impact Initiative
• Nina Stender, project director at the Democracy at Work Institute
• Ryan Demers, co-op developer at the Cooperative Development Institute
• Ryan Rose, founding worker-owner at Capital Bookkeeping Cooperative
• Angela DeFelice, Managing Director at Co-op Hudson Valley
• Joe Marraffino, loan officer at the Cooperative Fund of the Northeast
• Frank Cetera, program director at the Democracy at Work Institute
• Bathabile Mthombeni, founder of Untangled Resolutions
• Johan Matthews, Ecosystem Strategy Manager at the Cooperative Fund of the Northeast

Music

• Music for the event was from Mary Nickson

Sponsors

Many thanks to the event sponsors!

Field Builder level ($2,000+)

• CNY Community Foundation

Rochdale level ($1,000+)

• Cooperative Development Institute
• Cooperative Development Foundation
• Cooperative Fund of the Northeast
• Cornell Cooperative Enterprise Program
• Gifford Foundation
• National Cooperative Business Association
• New Economy Coalition
• South Side Innovation Center

Arizmendi level ($500+)

• Cooperative Federal Credit Union
• Genesee Co-op Federal Credit Union
• Democracy at Work Institute
• GreenStar Food Co-op
• Local Enterprise Assistance Fund
• Boston Impact Initiative
• Gimme Coffee

Franklin level ($300+)

• New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives
• Cooperation Buffalo
• Shareable
• Honest Weight Food Co-op

Cooperator level ($100+)

• U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
• Sam Gray Coop & Community Law
• Shared Capital Cooperative
• Bread and Roses Housing Co-op
• Cabot Creamery

Program

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