BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Exware Solutions Inc.//ExSite v3.8//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-950-@cciarts.org DTSTAMP:20260516T072449 DTSTART:20210823T163000 DTEND:20210823T180000 SUMMARY:CCI - Guilded Info Session for CA Artists DESCRIPTION:-- --\n\n--   --\n\n-- Resourcing Artists for the Solidarity Economy --\n\n-- CCI's AmbitioUS is pleased to present this workshop & info session for California artists interested in joining Guilded! --\n \n \n\nThe U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives is thrilled to launch Guilded, a co-op for freelancers in the creative fields. Guilded is a f reelancer-owned digital platform that provides contract workers with thr ee key services: \n\n* \n\nFinancial Support through Guaranteed Payment s\n\n* \n\nHealthcare Benefits \n\n* \n\nA community for networking and organizing\n\nThis free webinar is designed for new and mid-career art ists and creatives, based in California, who are looking for ways to bui ld assets while accessing social benefits through their work as freelan cers. We will provide tools for which artists can self-advocate to large r institutions for funding through their community groups/collectives an d discuss a new cooperative freelancing platform, Guilded, which provide s income stability through guaranteed payments and worker benefits for i ts members.  \n\nIn 2020 alone, largely as a result of the pandemic, m ore than 2 million people started freelancing. Freelancers bear the brun t of negotiating and securing worker and health benefits while conductin g all aspects of business administration on their own which makes them s ome of the most exploited and least protected workers in our economy. T his exploitation and lack of protection is often magnified for freelance rs in the arts. Guilded can serve as an antidote for artists looking for benefits and to join the solidarity economy.\n\nTo learn more visit ww w.guilded.coop.  \n\nThis workshop will be recorded. The recording wi ll be shared with pre-registered participants after the workshop conclud es.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------- -------\n\n-- ABOUT THE PRESENTER: --\n\nAjoke Williams is the Program M anager of Guilded at the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Guilded i s a freelancer cooperative designed to support independent contractors a nd freelancers with payment advances for their contracts, assistance wit h tax filing, and a centralized platform for obtaining health care. Ori ginally from New Orleans, Ajoke has lived in several cities throughout the US and now resides in Silver Spring, MD.  Before her time at the U SFWC, she had been working on means to bring equitable financing and acc ess to capital to cooperative businesses throughout the DC, MD and VA.   She has worked in establishing a digital online platform for lending p ools between members of the Movement for Black Lives DC coalition and p rovided logistical and development support for a number of BLM campaign s in her time there. Ajoke is passionate about bridging the promise of cooperative business with the urgent social needs of black and brown peo ple. As an aspiring credit union founder, she currently serves on the bo ard of Appeal's Credit Union and is a founder of Social Conscience PBC, a lending & tech consulting firm.\n\n----------------------------------- -------------------------------------\n\nDate: Monday, August 23, 2021\ nTime: 4:30-6:00pm PT\nOnline platform: A Zoom link will be emailed to those who register.\nFree with Registration (below).\nQuestions? Email a llison@cciarts.org.\n\n \n\n------------------------------------------- -----------------------------\n\n \n\nThis workshop is presented as par t of AmbitioUS, an initiative of the Center for Cultural Innovation enco uraging the development of burgeoning alternative economies and fresh so cial contracts in ways that artists and cultural communities can achieve financial freedom. Learn more about this initiative at http://ambitio-u s.org.\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n--   --\n\n-- ***IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS***  (DON'T SKIP STEPS 5 - 6!) --\n\nYou must be a member of CCI in order to register for this workshop. Membership is free and open to the public.  You can create an account here.\n\n* Click the green REGISTER NOW button , below.\n\n* Enter the required information.\n\n* Click SUBMIT.\n\n* Re view your Shopping Cart, and add additional registrants (if desired).\n\ n* Click CHECKOUT. \n\n* Enter your billing information and click CONTI NUE. (Note: you will not be charged for this event.)\n\n* When you see y our Receipt, you have successfully registered!\n\nYou will receive a se parate Confirmation email containing the Zoom link. If you do not see th e confirmation email, check your spam folder.\n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR Content-type: text/calendar content-disposition: attachment; filename=event.ics BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Exware Solutions Inc.//ExSite v3.8//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-950-@cciarts.org DTSTAMP:20260516T072450 DTSTART:20210823T163000 DTEND:20210823T180000 SUMMARY:CCI - Guilded Info Session for CA Artists DESCRIPTION:-- --\n\n--   --\n\n-- Resourcing Artists for the Solidarity Economy --\n\n-- CCI's AmbitioUS is pleased to present this workshop & info session for California artists interested in joining Guilded! --\n \n \n\nThe U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives is thrilled to launch Guilded, a co-op for freelancers in the creative fields. Guilded is a f reelancer-owned digital platform that provides contract workers with thr ee key services: \n\n* \n\nFinancial Support through Guaranteed Payment s\n\n* \n\nHealthcare Benefits \n\n* \n\nA community for networking and organizing\n\nThis free webinar is designed for new and mid-career art ists and creatives, based in California, who are looking for ways to bui ld assets while accessing social benefits through their work as freelan cers. We will provide tools for which artists can self-advocate to large r institutions for funding through their community groups/collectives an d discuss a new cooperative freelancing platform, Guilded, which provide s income stability through guaranteed payments and worker benefits for i ts members.  \n\nIn 2020 alone, largely as a result of the pandemic, m ore than 2 million people started freelancing. Freelancers bear the brun t of negotiating and securing worker and health benefits while conductin g all aspects of business administration on their own which makes them s ome of the most exploited and least protected workers in our economy. T his exploitation and lack of protection is often magnified for freelance rs in the arts. Guilded can serve as an antidote for artists looking for benefits and to join the solidarity economy.\n\nTo learn more visit ww w.guilded.coop.  \n\nThis workshop will be recorded. The recording wi ll be shared with pre-registered participants after the workshop conclud es.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------- -------\n\n-- ABOUT THE PRESENTER: --\n\nAjoke Williams is the Program M anager of Guilded at the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Guilded i s a freelancer cooperative designed to support independent contractors a nd freelancers with payment advances for their contracts, assistance wit h tax filing, and a centralized platform for obtaining health care. Ori ginally from New Orleans, Ajoke has lived in several cities throughout the US and now resides in Silver Spring, MD.  Before her time at the U SFWC, she had been working on means to bring equitable financing and acc ess to capital to cooperative businesses throughout the DC, MD and VA.   She has worked in establishing a digital online platform for lending p ools between members of the Movement for Black Lives DC coalition and p rovided logistical and development support for a number of BLM campaign s in her time there. Ajoke is passionate about bridging the promise of cooperative business with the urgent social needs of black and brown peo ple. As an aspiring credit union founder, she currently serves on the bo ard of Appeal's Credit Union and is a founder of Social Conscience PBC, a lending & tech consulting firm.\n\n----------------------------------- -------------------------------------\n\nDate: Monday, August 23, 2021\ nTime: 4:30-6:00pm PT\nOnline platform: A Zoom link will be emailed to those who register.\nFree with Registration (below).\nQuestions? Email a llison@cciarts.org.\n\n \n\n------------------------------------------- -----------------------------\n\n \n\nThis workshop is presented as par t of AmbitioUS, an initiative of the Center for Cultural Innovation enco uraging the development of burgeoning alternative economies and fresh so cial contracts in ways that artists and cultural communities can achieve financial freedom. Learn more about this initiative at http://ambitio-u s.org.\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------- ----------\n\n--   --\n\n-- ***IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS***  (DON'T SKIP STEPS 5 - 6!) --\n\nYou must be a member of CCI in order to register for this workshop. Membership is free and open to the public.  You can create an account here.\n\n* Click the green REGISTER NOW button , below.\n\n* Enter the required information.\n\n* Click SUBMIT.\n\n* Re view your Shopping Cart, and add additional registrants (if desired).\n\ n* Click CHECKOUT. \n\n* Enter your billing information and click CONTI NUE. (Note: you will not be charged for this event.)\n\n* When you see y our Receipt, you have successfully registered!\n\nYou will receive a se parate Confirmation email containing the Zoom link. If you do not see th e confirmation email, check your spam folder.\n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR