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Our Portal Library is a comprehensive resource curated from trusted cooperative and housing organizations. It brings together a wealth of articles, guides, books, reports, and journals focused on cooperative housing, governance, leadership, and community development. Each publication is selected for its relevance and practical value, helping cooperative board members and leaders strengthen their knowledge in areas such as:
Governance and Legal Frameworks –
Understand your duties, responsibilities, and ethical obligations.
Financial and Business Planning
Learn strategies to keep your cooperative strong and sustainable.
Operations and Maintenance
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Cooperative Housing, Needs and Opportunities State of
We initially intended to meet with a cross-section of co-op housing members to survey them regarding their needs. Given the project's limited resources and the unexpected complexity of profiling the...
Cooperative Management
Management has greatly improved as cooperatives have become larger, more diversified, and integrated to match similar advances in the marketplace and on the farm.
Cooperative Management Series Director Roles and Responsibilities
Cooperative directors hold a unique position in that they serve as both the decision-making body for the association and the protectors of members’ investments.
Cooperative Marketing Agreements – Legal Aspects
This report focuses on the legal characteristics of cooperative marketing agreements. The basic legal principles governing marketing contracts are first reviewed.
Cooperative Marketing – Marketing Schools
Cooperative marketing refers to any agreement that combines marketing efforts. And thus it can appear in many forms.
Cooperative Principles UW
One of the ways cooperatives differ from other business structures is their adherence to cooperative principles and values that reflect social, political, and business concerns.
Cooperative Role Check List 
Cooperative Secretary Role Profile
An example role profile for a cooperative secretary
Cooperative societies were created long before the advent of the...
Cooperative societies were created long before the advent of the fair-trade movement to help workers improve their livelihoods and protect their interests.
cooperative society
As a species, we are not destined to destroy ourselves and our planet. We can make the transition from a destructive society to a cooperative one. And we can make...
Cooperative Startups & Education
The cooperative form of business is a unique model that focuses on delivering services needed by its owner-members, rather than generating profits for investor-owners.
Cooperative Theory – New Approaches
This report contains nine papers on cooperative theory relating to operations, market behavior, Decision making, finance, and other aspects of farmer cooperation.
Cooperative Theory New Approaches
This report comprises nine papers on cooperative theory, covering operations, market behavior, decision-making, finance, and other aspects of farmer cooperation. These papers were written as part of an ACS project...
Cooperative Theory Principles & Practice 
Cooperative Unification Highlights From 1989 To Early 1999
Cooperative Unification Highlights From 1989 To Early 1999
Cooperative-Equity-and-Ownership
Cooperatives are enterprises that are democratically owned and controlled by the people who benefit from them and are operated collaboratively for the purpose of providing services to these beneficiaries or...
Cooperative-Principles-–-UW-Center-for-Cooperatives-–-UW–Madison
Cooperatives trace their roots to the Rochdale pioneers, who established the first modern cooperative in Rochdale, England, in 1844. These principles have been refined, adapted, and reinterpreted over time.
Cooperatives A Housing Alternative for Rural America
In a housing cooperative, people join to form a cooperative corporation that owns the buildings in which they live. Purchasing a share in the cooperative entitles each member to lease...
Cooperatives and the Millennium Development Goals
The United Nations Millennium Declaration and its goals set out issues that must be addressed if we are to strengthen the foundations of a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world.
Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals
A consensus on goals, targets, and indicators for sustainable development must be reached by the end of 2015. The big questions revolve around the ways the international community will respond...
Cooperatives are member-owned and democratically controlled
Cooperatives are member-owned and democratically controlled businesses that distribute profits based on an equitable patronage system 1 Cooperative membership is typically restricted to suppliers, customers, workers, or some combination thereof.
Cooperatives Conversions Failures and Restructurings
Cooperatives Conversions Failures and Restructurings
Cooperatives Corporate Governance Manual.
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...
Cooperatives for Sustainable Communities
The chapters in this book are organized around five key themes. They offer an international snapshot of the work being undertaken in these areas, with the intention of sharing the...