Co-op Power Leadership Retreat Session II: Community Finance and Business Development The Roundhouse 68 Van Nuys Road Colrain, MA July 29-30, 2011 Learn leadership skills required to transition our region to a sustainable and just energy future, addressing multi-class/multi-racial community organizing, community finance, green job and green business development, and community-based sustainable energy solutions. Network with other community leaders across the Northeast. Featuring:
	Lynn Benander, Lead Trainer As Manager of Co-op Power, Lynn Benander works with community leaders to build community ownership of sustainable energy resources.  Prior to joining Co-op Power, she ran a center for cooperative development in the Northeastern US and coordinated a training program for cooperative development specialists for a national network of cooperative development centers.  She'll share lessons learned from fifteen years of group-based, community business development.
	Mark Tajima, Case Study Presenter Mark Tajima brings a strong background in finance, strategic planning, education, and energy efficiency. He helped create the business plan that secured the $540,000 grant to launch Energia and now works there as the Residential Energy Efficiency Crew Leader. Mark currently is Chair of the board of Co-op Power and is a member of the board of Northeast Biodiesel. Mark has 20 years of experience in banking, and 10 years of experience in energy efficiency work. Mark has been involved with Co-op Power since 2009.
	Scott Guzman, Case Study Presenter Scott Guzman is a renewable energy entrepreneur with a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. While in college, he was a member of the President's Task Force on Sustainability, the student Green Team, and a member of the WPI Entrepreneurship club. He is currently working as a Biofuels Engineer for Empower Energy Co-Op, Biodiesel Division - Worcester, MA. As a founding member-owner, Scott has been involved in each aspect of the business, including formation of the Co-Op structure, accounting, management of warehouse operations, waste vegetable oil collection and sales.
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Registration

$10 Friday evening 7-8:30 pm
$30 Friday evening 6-8:30 pm including dinner
$125 Saturday 9 am to 5 pm including lunch
$200 per person, includes a bed in a dorm room and 3 meals
$150 per person, includes program registration, dinner Friday and lunch Saturday
Scholarships available. Please send in a note requesting a scholarship with your registration email.  Describe the work you're doing to build a multi-class, multi-racial movement for justice and sustainability if you haven't participated in the past.

Leader Retreat Schedule

Directions to the Roundhouse

68 Van Nuys Rd. ~ Colrain, MA

(413) 624-5140

Head west on Route 2 from the Greenfield rotary at Route 91 Exit 26 and Route 2.

Turn right onto Colrain Rd. at your first stop light -- just one block from the Rotary & just before the Irving gas station on your right and opposite the MacDonald's on your left .  The Center is about 5.5 miles from this turn.

Go out Colrain Rd. about 3 miles. (You may notice that Plain Rd. forks off to the right after a mile and a half or so -- be sure that you do not fork off onto it by accident.)  Go straight until you pass through a colonial village type of settlement; at its end there is a triangle in the road with roads forking around it.  There is a sign there, pointing Colrain to your left and Leyden to your right.  You want to go RIGHT (towards Leyden) on Green River Rd.

Go 1/10 mi. over a little bridge; then, go diagonally left up Smead Hill Rd., leaving Green River Rd.  Clock your odometer from this point!  The Center is 2.5 miles from this turn. (Smead Hill Rd. merges into Van Nuys.  Go straight up the hill, bearing left when in doubt (at forks, etc.) until you reach the Center. The entrance to the center is on your right at 68 Van Nuys Rd.  Just beyond the drive is a green mailbox with the reflector numbers, "68" behind it.  The house is down the hill on the right; it is rounded with a cupola on top.

Go down to the parking area, & ask for permanent parking instructions, as they are dependent on numbers and weather. If you get lost, call the number above or ask anyone for help.  The Center is locally known as the Roundhouse or ReBekka's Place.