Upcoming Events

• Wednesday, December 16, 2026 at 11:15 AM PST

  Zoom

  Solidari-Tea Time

  

  A companion to our Legal Cafes, Solidari-Tea Time provides opportunities for solidarity economy movement organizations to get advice, coaching and support with challenges you are experiencing on your organizational development journey.

  • Are you having trouble making decisions together? 
  • Do you need support sharing work more effectively? 
  • Are you having a hard time bringing in new members to your organization? 
  • Are experienced members struggling to adapt to your new ways of working under shared leadership? 
  • Are you experiencing conflict as you encounter growing pains? 
  • Are you wondering what your next steps are as you transition to shared leadership?

  You are not alone!  And we’re here to help.

  Building organizations that align with our values of justice, shared leadership, and participatory democracy is challenging.  Bring your questions, challenges, and stumbling blocks to Solidari-Tea Time, and get support from consultants and practitioners experienced in building worker self-directed nonprofits, cooperatives, and other organizations practicing liberatory values.

   

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• Thursday, December 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM PST

  Online via Zoom in Oakland, CA

  Online Legal Cafe

  

  The Sustainable Economies Law Center provides direct legal support to individuals and groups who are working to create new solutions for resilient local economies. The Resilient Communities Legal Cafe provides sliding-scale donation-based legal advice, via Zoom, by appointment. 

  If you need advice about starting a worker-owned cooperative, converting an existing business into a cooperative, organizing a housing cooperative, founding a nonprofit or other social enterprise, please RSVP below! Here are some questions we will be prepared to answer:

  • Radical real estate law: How to form a housing cooperative, real estate cooperative, or nonprofit housing?

  • Legal formation for small businesses: What are the regulations and requirements to have your organization legally function?

  • Legal entity choice: Should your org be a for profit, non-profit, and which legal entity fits best with your vision?

  • Employment law: Whether you're an employer, employee, or a cooperative, we can answer questions on how to prevent or resolve issues?

  • Tax law: What are the ways to receive tax exemption for your org?

  • Contracts: Contract review, drafting, and negotiation

  • Liability issues: What are your governance requirements to avoid liability?

  • Environmental law: Do you have questions about how to create more green spaces for your community?

  • Worker Self Directed Nonprofits:  How can you run your nonprofit organization more like a worker-owned cooperative?

  Note: We especially encourage Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities to RSVP. We focus on cooperatives, participatory or democratic nonprofits, land trusts, and mutual aid groups. If you need Spanish Language or American Sign Language interpretation, please email Hope ([email protected]) with Subject Line "Interpretation Request - for [mm/dd/yyyy] event." We will do our best to accommodate your request.

  Keep an eye out for an e-mail when you RSVP. The e-mail will have your appointment slot, instructions on how to attend our Legal Cafe remotely, and an intake form that we need you and your partners to fill out. 

  Format: You and/or your group will be paired with a lawyer for 30-45 minutes to get answers to questions about entity formation, contracts, governance, and more! Since we're based in Oakland, our event times are listed as Pacific Standard Time.

  Got any questions? E-mail [email protected]!

   

  Only one person per group needs to RSVP.

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