[3] NASCO teaches leadership skills, provides information, and serves as a central link in facilitating the fruition of the cooperative vision for students and youth.

NASCO holds numerous workshops with topics including meeting process, board roles and responsibilities, planning, staff relations, marketing, diversity awareness, conflict resolution, facilitation, consensus decision-making, and organizational development for new cooperatives.

NASCO supports and assists, to varying degrees, regional networking and training opportunities for co-op members and staff.

The Action Camp, held each August, provides an intensive training environment for leaders and active members of housing co-ops, worker collectives, and other democratically run communities.

Participants spend one week in a beautiful, natural environment engaging in a week-long program on privilege and anti-oppression work and interactive fun, using techniques from Augusto Boal's "Theater of the Oppressed."

Staff members visit each leasing co-op at least three times per year to help with finances, maintenance, and other problems or issues that may arise.

In 2004, a second title holding organization was created between NASCO and Riverton Community Housing called Lots in Common (LINC).