Cooperating for Positive Change: The 2009 NAHC Annual Conference

The 49th Annual NAHC Conference was held October, 2009, in San Francisco.

NAHC members may access presentation files from the meeting by logging into the Conference Presentation section of the NAHC Members Only section of this site. 

Conference Business Session topics included:

Cooperative Principles & What they Mean – Lobbying 101 – Mobile Home Park Cooperatives – Benefits of Equity Housing Cooperatives – If you Promote it, they will Demand it! The 4 Ps of Marketing – How to Keep Your Members in the Co-op – Employment Practices of Cooperatives – New Community Vision: Where Needs Meet Resources – Great Architects who Designed Great Cooperatives – Financing Major Rehab and Capital Improvement Projects – NAHC Website Training – Employment Practices of Cooperatives – Aging in Place-Integrating Supports into Housing Cooperatives – Promoting & Living "Green" – Reading Financial Information – Attorney's Roundtable – Building Relationships with Other Kinds of Cooperatives – Community Projects that Work! – Your Cooperative's DNA – The Stimulus Package: What it Means for Housing Cooperatives – Community Approaches to Aging-Village Model – Role of the President – The Up Side of Refinance in a Down Market – How to manage your Cooperative’s finances in this ever changing financial market (Budget, finances, grants) – Marketing Through the Ages – Choosing Management: from the RFP to Contract – NAHC and YOU! Governance Training, Website Benefits, Pharmacy Program, and more! – 25 Tools & Tips of Electronic Communications Speaker – RCM Business Principals and RCM Roundtable – The ornery side of cooperative living: Evictions and disciplinary and collection in cooperatives – Developers Forum