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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
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Emergency Preparedness – Checklist 
Emergency Preparedness For People With Disabilities
This booklet provides emergency preparedness tips for individuals with various disabilities.
Emergency Preparedness for people with special medical needs
Dealing with a disaster, such as an earthquake, storm, or power outage, can be especially frightening for individuals with special medical needs.
Emergency Preparedness for Seniors and people with disabilities
In the event of a serious disaster, everyone should be self-sufficient for at least three days without help or emergency services.
Emergency salvage of flood damaged family papers
During the 1993 Midwest floods, the National Archives staff developed technical tips to guide individuals in emergency stabilization and salvage of damaged documents, photographs, books, and other personal papers. It...
Emergency Tips For People With Mobility Disabilities
Emergency Tips
Emergency Tips For People Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of...
Emergency Tips
Emergency Tips For People Who Use Life Support Systems
Emergency Tips
Emergency Tips For People With Communication And Speech Related Disabilities
Emergency Tips
Emergency Tips For People With Developmental Or Cognitive Disabilities
Emergency Tips
Emergency Tips For People With Environmental Illness Or Multiple Chemical...
Emergency Tips
Emergency Tips For People With Environmental Illness Or Multiple Chemical...
Emergency Tips
Emergency Tips For People With Visual Disabilities
Emergency Tips
Emergency Tips For Service Animal And Pet Owners 
Emergency-Shelter-Program-Framework-2018
Shelters provide short-term responses to the challenge of Homelessness, including temporary accommodation with a strong focus on helping Clients move into Housing.
Employee Performance Evaluation
Several association executives have provided sample employee performance evaluation tools. These examples are aimed at evaluating employees- NOT the chief executive officer
Empowering Inclusion in Affordable Housing
Housing has a profound influence on our health, well-being, and quality of life. It is foundational to our feelings of connectedness, safety, and belonging. For many people across Canada, especially...
Energy and Water Efficiency in Multi-Unit Residential buildings
Some say that “they don’t make ‘me like they used to.” When it comes to the efficiency of buildings, this can be beneficial. In recent decades, buildings were designed with...
Engaging your community – A Toolkit for Partnership, Collaboration, and...
This Toolkit is intended to assist organizations in the adolescent pregnancy prevention and parenting field with cultivating strategic partnerships,
Enhancing the Weakest Link
An association with a network of components should have mechanisms to maintain standards of excellence.
Envisioning Development What Affordable Housing Is
In the context of planning and real estate development, terms such as “affordable housing” and “low-income housing” have specific meanings derived from federal guidelines.
Epiphany Essential Leadership Coaching Guide
You’ve likely experienced a few significant shifts and challenges in your work environment as leaders and priorities collectively respond and adjust to COVID-19. Some organizations are thriving, some are sinking,...
Essential Board Governance- The Five Areas You Need to Know...
Nonprofit organizations are required to have a board of directors, a governing body, as stated in the organization’s bylaws. The governing board is the leadership of the organization. The board...
Essential Board Member Skills_ Listen More, Talk Less
When I was asked which skill was most essential for board members, I immediately considered one that I thought they should definitely master: listening.