In partnership with the City of Phoenix and Shared Capital Cooperative, Thrive is hosting a free 2 hour lunch-and-learn workshop: Financing Cooperative Businesses.

The target audience of this workshop is financial loan officers and business lenders.

The City of Phoenix is joining other major cities in support of developing a cooperative business economy. Critical to the success of any business is having access to financial institution support. We have prepared this workshop with Shared Capital Collective, a cooperative financing institution in Michigan, to provide Arizona financial institutions with a roadmap of how they can grow their cliental base and support emerging cooperative businesses.

Agenda:

12:00- 12:20: Thrive and cooperative ecosystem development introduction

12:20-12:50: Introduction of Shared Capital Cooperative (CDFI) and the cooperative business model from a lending institution perspective

12:50-1:40: Introduction to elements of underwriting for cooperative businesses

1:40-2:00: Steps for continued engagement and workshop close out

The workshop will be available to join in-person and online via Zoom. For those joining in-person, we will have lunch provided.