This report provides an overview of cooperatives that perform these activities. More detailed reports are available on cooperatives handling each of the major farm products and farm supplies.

Groups of individuals around the world and throughout time worked together in pursuit of common goals.  Examples of cooperation, or collective action, can be traced back to our prehistoric predecessors,...

Stable Home Ownership in a Turbulent Economy: Delinquencies and Foreclosures Remain Low in Community Land Trusts

Co-operative Values and Principles are embodied in the Statement of Co-operative Identity, published by the International Co-operative Alliance.

Based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity, cooperatives put people at the heart of their business.

“A cooperative is a voluntary’ contractual organization of persons having a mutual ownership interest in providing themselves a needed service(s) on a nonprofit basis.

NASCO is democratically controlled by its members through an elected board of directors. In addition, one representative from each member student co-op sits on the Active Member Advisory Council, which assists our...

Sample Cooperative Agreement Between

A Background Paper to highlight the role of cooperatives in the realization of the illustrative Sustainable Development Goals

These Millennium Development Goals are the focus of the world's development agenda today, with multilateral and bilateral organizations, governments, and civil society all seeking innovative ways to reach the goals...

To improve cooperative skills in cooperatives. To promote and develop cooperative skills throughout all sectors of the economy and sections of society.

Cooperatives are considered jointly owned and democratically managed enterprises formed through the voluntary association of individuals to meet the needs of their members. This type of organization is considered a “mutual...

Serving as a member of a cooperative Board of Directors often entails an experience that is mixed with rewards and anxieties.

In order to harness and foster the largely untapped potential of cooperatives to meet these challenges and to contribute to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially MDG1 (fighting poverty and hunger)...

The International Cooperative Alliance defines cooperation as "an autonomous association of people united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and...

Cooperative Financial Performance and Board of Directors Characteristics

The material on cooperative taxation is presented only to provide information to persons interested in the tax treatment of cooperatives and does not represent official policy of the U.S. Department of...

The Measuring the Co-operative Difference Research Network (MCDRN; cooperativedifference.coop) and the Centre of Excellence in Accounting and Reporting for Co-operatives (CEARC at Saint Mary’s University) joined forces to organize an...

Governance is a key component of the co-operative difference. The co-operative values and principles call for an open, voluntary, and democratic process of decision-making, and co-operative governance is a crucial tool in...

Many of these documents, though signed years ago, bind the cooperative to other entities for extended periods of time

Benefits of Joining a Cooperative

Although co-operative housing is widespread and has a significant impact on the quality of life of millions of people, our housing sector remains relatively underappreciated. This joint report represents the...

This Cooperative Housing Compendium, like most cooperatives, will be a friendly place to learn about cooperative-style housing. Although there will not always be room for everyone to have a single-family...

This manual was created by NCDF to assist community leaders with choosing, planning, and organizing co-op housing developments. One of the beauties of the housing co-op model is that it is...