Celebrate the Year of the Cooperative

In celebration of the United Nation's 2012 declaration of the International Year of the Cooperative, we are organizing a summit of Upstate New York cooperatives - banking, grocery, housing, agricultural, worker.  The summit will be held in Syracuse on Saturday, March 31 from 10 am to 5 pm at the South Side Innovation Center (2610 South Salina St, Syracuse, NY) and include presentations and discussions with inspiring cooperative organizations and members. The event will be an opportunity to

  • Build relationships among the cooperative community around New York State
  • Educate and inspire entrepreneurs and workers about possible cooperative control of their economic lives
  • Give existing cooperatives greater exposure to each other and the public, and
  • Assemble a database of organizations and individuals interested in cooperatives, for state-wide organizing.


We invite you to get involved! Our organizing group, led by the Onondaga Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is looking for sponsors to help make the event free or low-cost to attendees, for businesses to showcase themselves through tabling, and for support in promoting the event to constituencies throughout NY. This money will help pay for space, lunch, printed programs, and audio-visual resources.

Get Involved

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We invite you to get involved! Our organizing group, led by the Onondaga Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is looking for sponsors to help make the event free or low-cost to attendees, for businesses to showcase themselves through tabling, and for support in promoting the event to constituencies throughout NY. This money will help pay for space, lunch, printed programs, and audio-visual resources.

Sponsorship Levels Benefits
$20 - Tabling Table, Registration for one attendee
$100 - Cooperator Table, Registration for two, Name listing
$300 - Franklin Table, registration for three, Name listing, Small logo
$500 - Rochdale Table, Registration for five, Name listing, Large logo & Front page presence
$1000 - Arizmendiarrieta Keynote Address naming sponsor (two available), Plus everything at $500 level

Payments will be accepted online via credit card, or by check made payable to “SBDC OCC” and sent to

2012 Upstate NY Cooperatives Summit
c/o Frank Cetera
Onondaga SBDC
800 North Salina St, 3rd Floor
Syracuse, NY 13208

Come showcase your organization and connect with the Upstate cooperative community.  Learn from leaders in various cooperative sectors and help bring cooperative values to a growing audience for equitable local economies. Additional attendees can register for $10 per person (includes lunch). Tell your members and community about the event.  Summit outreach materials are online.   Encourage them to sign up to our mailing list, spread the word, attend the summit.

Visit www.CNY.coop, or contact Frank Cetera at  ceteraf@sunyocc.edu or 315-299-8228 x12

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