Our Services
Our facilitation style is highly interactive, whether we’re facilitating meetings, workshops, or other collective processes.
MEETING AND RETREAT FACILITATION
We strongly believe that well-facilitated meetings are crucial in building strong, effective organizations and successful projects. CWC facilitators are available to provide professional facilitation for retreats and meetings. We can work with you to plan and prepare for your meeting, help create effective agendas, and guide your group through meetings that are engaging, productive, and energizing.
WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS
We offer a wide range of workshops and trainings, including political education sessions on topics such as racial, economic, and gender justice, anti-oppression fundamentals (and beyond), and more; as well as capacity building trainings such as facilitation and conflict resolution, decision-making, and human resources. We tailor all of our workshops and trainings to the needs of the particular organization we’re working with.
STRATEGIC PLANNING AND VISIONING
Creating a strategic plan is one of the most effective tools for moving your work forward and remaining in alignment with your organizational vision. CWC can support and facilitate collective visioning and strategic planning processes, working with you to clarify your group’s guiding vision and developing strong goals, objectives, workplans, and timelines.
CONFLICT MEDIATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
We are available to facilitate workplace conflict resolution processes, or to provide support and training for developing organizational conflict resolution policies, protocols, and a culture of healthy communication. This could range from a brief conflict resolution/communications training to more extensive consulting work around decision-making, organizational culture, communications, and related issues.
WEBINARS AND REMOTE FACILITATION
DAY RATES
Priced per trainer, including up to 5 hours of prep and follow-up.
(Not including travel, lodging, and per diem expenses.)
Note that we consider additional factors beyond budget to determine whether an organization qualifies for our solidarity rate. Please see below FAQ for more details.
SOLIDARITY RATE
$1000 – 2500
PER DAY, PER TRAINER
For organizations with annual budgets up to $250,000 and/or current members of The Coalition
FULL RATE
$2,500 – 4,000
PER DAY, PER TRAINER
For organizations with annual budgets between $250,000 and $1 million.
COALITION SUPPORTER
$4,000 – 6,000+
PER DAY, PER TRAINER
For organizations with annual budgets over $1 million
HOURLY RATES
Hourly rates apply to consulting, and to shorter trainings. Our hourly rate does not include prep and follow-up time; when applying our hourly rate to trainings, we bill for all hours we work, including prep and follow-up.
Priced per trainer (Not including travel, lodging, and per diem expenses)
**Note that for work involving significant travel, we generally bill by the day**
Note that we consider additional factors beyond budget to determine whether an organization qualifies for our solidarity rate. Please see below FAQ for more details.
SOLIDARITY RATE
$75 – 175
PER HOUR, PER TRAINER
For organizations with annual budgets up to $250,000 and/or current members of The Coalition
FULL RATE
$175 – 275
PER HOUR, PER TRAINER
For organizations with annual budgets between $250,000 and $1 million
COALITION SUPPORTER
$275 – 400+
PER HOUR, PER TRAINER
For organizations with annual budgets over $1 million
About Our Rates
CWC offers our services on a wide sliding scale. Our sliding scale is an intentional effort to distribute resources equitably between organizations we work with, including universities, nonprofits, cooperatives, and grassroots community organizations; as well as to support and strengthen groups doing strategic movement-building work. Our break-even rate is $225/hr. Paying at the higher end of the scale—the Coalition Supporter rate—makes it possible for CWC to work with grassroots organizations at little to no cost to them.
Where Your Fees Are Going
Below is a breakdown of how we use the fee for a $4,000, day-long training. Any payment for reimbursed expenses (travel, meals, lodging, etc.) goes directly toward reimbursing our workers for those expenses.
| Amount | Percentage | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Salaries | 78% | Our average pay is $20/hr |
| Operating Expenses | 12% | This includes supplies, software, insurance, office equipment, payroll fees, website, accountant fees, legal advice, and other overhead |
| Worker Relief Fund | 10% | A percentage of all income is set aside to support struggling workers in cannabis and hemp |
IS MY ORGANIZATION ELIGIBLE FOR YOUR SOLIDARITY RATES?
We prioritize our Solidarity Rate for organizations that are doing movement building work and/or work to build a solidarity economy, and are led by communities of color, immigrants, and/or working class and poor people.
We appreciate your understanding that we are rarely able to offer our solidarity rate for work that requires significant travel. Some organizations address this by partnering with allied local groups to co-host a training and share costs, or by connecting CWC with other local organizations that may also want to hire us. We are happy to hear from you and discuss options. If we can’t make it work, we’ll do our best to refer you to an organization or trainer who might be a good fit.
ARE YOUR RATES NEGOTIABLE?
These rates are guidelines. We understand that large organizational budgets don’t always mean lots of money available for training and consulting. If you are unable to pay within the range suggested for your organization but still feel that you are a good fit for CWC’s services, let us know and we will negotiate if possible. For contracts that include over 25 hours of consulting, a lower hourly rate may be negotiated.
WHAT DOES THE FULL COST RATE COVER?
The Full Cost Rate is the actual cost of our work (our break-even rate is $225/hr). This is the range that covers the costs we incur as a business while working with you. Because we are a worker-owned 501c4 and not a 501c3, we do not receive grants to subsidize our client work. We rely on our fee-for-service income to pay our salaries and keep our business operating. For a full breakdown of where this income goes, see our transparent expenses below.
Day rates include the cost of a full day of facilitation or training, plus up to 5 hours of preparation or follow-up work. If more substantial preparation or follow-up is required, we bill for additional hours at an agreed-upon hourly rate.
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Cannabis Workers Coalition d/b/a Joint Workers Coalition is a 501(c)4 non-profit
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