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Is the Cooperative Businesses Model Right for Me?

Join the Women’s Business Center and Cooperation Buffalo for a webinar about cooperative businesses on April 17th from noon – 1 p.m.

During the webinar, we will discuss:

  • What a worker co-op is
  • Why co-ops are a viable option
  • How you can be a part of strengthening Buffalo’s growing co-op community

During our workshop, we will answer these questions:

  • What does Cooperation Buffalo do?
  • Why economic democracy and why now?
  • What is a cooperative and is worker ownership right for me and my business?
  • How do I start a worker coop, or how do I convert an existing business to worker ownership?
  • What financing options are available?

This webinar is free and open to all!  Registration is required by clicking here.

Submitted by: Amanda Crotty, Coordinator, Women’s Business Center

 

Canisius Welcomes WSJ Columnist Jason Riley

Canisius welcomes Jason L. Riley, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, to campus on Tuesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. The lecture is presented under the auspices of a conservative lecture series at the university made possible by Canisius Trustee Jerry Canada ’86. The talk, titled “The Problem With Social Justice,” is free and open to the public, and sponsored by the student chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom. A question-and-answer session will follow Riley’s lecture.

Riley has written about politics, economics, education, immigration and social inequality for more than 25 years at The Wall Street Journal. He is also a frequent public speaker and provides commentary for television and radio news outlets.

Read more here.

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Submitted by: University Communications