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Co-ops participating in CBLD provide input for resources they would like to see developed (see the Input and Enrollment Form). Each year the CBLD team produces new support resources to help your board with issues that are shared with other co-op boards. The CBLD Library contains Online Recorded Workshops, installments of the Field Guide, and other tools and resources as a result of this ongoing process.
CBLD Library — We’ve continued to improve the CBLD Library. If you haven’t been there recently we invite you to visit. Recorded workshops now play online and are downloadable in Mac and PC formats. Visit the CBLD library
Online Recorded Workshops — In the CBLD Library you’ll find the online recorded workshops we’ve produced since we started developing this new method of delivering support. On the Input and Enrollment form we ask again for your input on the new resources that will be most helpful in the coming year. We’ll publish a schedule of new workshops after January 1.
Field Guide for Effective Governance — New in 2009, these discussion papers present a way of thinking about a topic and provide questions your board can use to help you decide what’s best for your co-op. You’ll find six in the CBLD Library now and we’ll be adding more in 2010 on topics gleaned from the Input and Enrollment forms. We welcome new topics and feedback!
Sample Policies — The CBLD Team continues to maintain a set of sample board policies. We encourage you to take a look and consider refreshing your policies by using these samples as a starter set.
CBLD GM Compensation Database — A new tool developed in partnership with CDS Consulting Co-op’s Carolee Colter and Coop Metrics. The all-new CBLD GM Compensation Database is in the “design and build” stage now for a rollout in fall 2009. GMs will be able to log on to a confidential survey hosted by Co-op Metrics, the makers of CoCoFiST, complete a GM compensation survey and then pull summary comparison reports. This database is designed to provide GMs with confidential, easy and efficient access to co-op comparables to use in compensation proposals as called for in the CBLD “Setting a process for GM Compensation” workshop. Many co-ops have implemented this process since we introduced it last year and this database will make it possible for GMs to access better information faster!