Most conference events will take place at the Hotel Murano unless otherwise noted.
Hotel Murano
1320 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402 Map
Thursday, May 28, 2026
| 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. PST | Registration Open |
| 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. PST | Co-op Tours (ticket required) |
| 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. PST | Welcome Reception |
Friday, May 29, 2026
| 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. PST | Restore & Rest: Gentle Yoga with Sound Bowls |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. PST | Breakfast Buffet |
| 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. PST | General Session: Integrity, Care, and Equity Under Pressure: Twin Cities Food Co-op Leaders on Navigating ICE in Their Communities |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. PST | Two Models, One Mission: Food Service Strategies from Skagit Valley Food Co-op and PCC Community Markets |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. PST | Finding True North – How Trusting Your Leadership Instincts Transforms Workplaces |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. PST | Rooted in Narrative Cooperative Media and the Importance of Storytelling |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. PST | Vision to Action: Designing Strategic Planing Processes That Actually Work |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. PST | The Perils, Pitfalls, and Potential Positive PR of Political Positions: A Tale of Two Portlands |
| 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. PST | Buffet Lunch |
| 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. PST | Rooted in Resistance: The History of Food Cooperation Among People of the Global Majority |
| 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. PST | The Evergreen Pipeline:Succession Planning Through a Culture of Coaching |
| 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. PST | The Cascade Lab: Experimenting with Cooperation to Build Community Power |
| 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. PST | Fair Pay, Fair Power: Addressing Gender Bias in Co-op Leadership and Governance |
| 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. PST | Turning on a Dime |
| 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. PST | CCMA Dialogue Studio: What Counts as “Political”—and Who Decides in a Co-op? |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. PST | Break |
| 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. PST | Value with Values: Merchandising in a Price-Sensitive, Values-Driven Environment |
| 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. PST | Union’s What’s it all about? |
| 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. PST | Growing for Good: A Replicable Co-op Model Supporting Farmers and Food Access |
| 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. PST | Leadership Laboratory: Sharing Creative Strategies and Success Stories for Board Leadership Development |
| 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. PST | Research in Action: Leveraging Field Insights to Advance Cooperative Collaboration |
| 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. PST | CCMA Dialogue Studio |
| 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. PST | Reception |
Saturday, May 30, 2026
| 6:00 – 7:00 a.m. PST | Restore & Rest: Gentle Yoga with Sound Bowls |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. PST | Breakfast Buffet |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. PST | Breakfast Session: Union Activity in Co-ops: Practical, Values-Aligned Strategies for Today’s Workplace |
| 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. PST | General Session: Charting the Next Era of Cooperative Growth |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. PST | Refreshment Break |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. PST | Walkthrough Level Up. How we leveraged a common retail practice to elevate our Co-op in every way |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. PST | Re-Invigorating Your Service Culture: Becoming Rooted in Service |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. PST | Growing Impact: Building Sustainable Fundraising Systems |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. PST | Who Holds the Holder? The Board’s Role in Preventing GM Burnout |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. PST | Capitalizing the Co-op: Building the Capital Stack for Expansion and Relocation |
| 10:30 – 12:00 p.m. PST | CCMA Dialogue Studio |
| 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. PST | CCMA Awards Luncheon |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PST | Product Mix: “Hybrid” Relevancy, Differentiation and Margin |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PST | Shared Leadership, Stronger Co-ops: Lessons from Collective Management |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PST | Stronger Together: Building Bridges Across Race |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PST | The Leadership Cascade: Strengthening GM-Board Partnerships for Cooperative Resilience |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PST | Better Together: The story of two food co-ops unifying through consolidation |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. PST | CCMA Dialogue Studio: CCMA 2026: What Are You Letting Go, Learning, and Longing For? |
| 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. PST | Transition Period |
| 3:45 – 4:00 p.m. PST | Closing Session |
| 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. PST | Swag Swap |
| 6:00 – 9:30 p.m. PST | Closing Night Party |
Need an accommodation? Requests for reasonable accommodations for disabilities or limitations should be made prior to the date of the program or activity for which it is needed. Please do so as early as possible prior to the program or activity so that proper arrangements can be made. In certain situations, information related to requests may be shared with staff or units necessary to help coordinate an appropriate accommodation.
Please contact Megan Webster at mawebster@wisc.edu to make your request.