Organizations develop guiding principles from inception. Founding leaders instill their values. Through time, culture, and environmental changes, the ideals evolve.

A guide to the origin, purpose, and application of seven governing documents for exempt organizations in the USA, listed in order of hierarchy.

The Petitioner, City of Iowa City's Board of Review, reclassified 18 properties held by eleven multiple housing cooperatives from commercial to residential for property tax purposes.

Information for boards of trustees on the importance of good record-keeping to good governance.

The governing documents of your cooperative are the tools of corporate control.

Revisions to Chapter 185, the cooperative incorporation statute for Wisconsin, were passed by the Wisconsin legislature in November 2017.

Construction of a solid foundation under a building requires the proper use of numerous materials and tools. Only when the foundation is securely in place can the remainder of the...

This Guide has been prepared as a publication under an award to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, as part of a project to increase worker ownership among low- to moderate-income workers.

This manual is designed to help people in rural Wisconsin develop housing cooperatives composed of a small number of adjacent single-family homes specifically designed for senior citizens.

This legal primer is designed to provide community groups with a basic resource for understanding the legal issues involved in starting a food co-op.

Traditionally, a business organized on a cooperative basis subordinates the interests of the capital investor to those of the business user, or patron.

Sample of Membership Cert

AN ACT to authorize cities, incorporated villages, metropolitan districts, counties, and other public bodies to aid housing projects of housing authorities, housing commissions, and the federal government

Owning a home is the quintessential symbol of the American Dream. A home purchase will be the largest purchase most Americans ever make. According to the United States Census Bureau, 66.4%...

Sample NAP Memorandum of Understanding

Emigrant Mortgage Co., Inc. v. Greenberg, 34 Misc. 3d 1236(A), 950 N.Y.S.2d 608 (Dist. Ct. 2012) (unreported)

Is an individual board member exempt from liability if acting in his or her capacity as a board member? That was one of the many questions in Fletcher v. The...

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There are more than 1 million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. The development and maintenance of an operating framework promotes efficiency, creates systems, reduces risk, and establishes training manuals.

Planning for the cooperative's operation must take place well before the formal transfer of ownership to the shareholders.

Sample Proprietary Lease

Cooperatives are organized to provide goods or services to their patron member owners, not financial returns to investors.

Sample Legal Documents

Sample Resale Policy Amendment to Proprietary Lease