While appropriately funded spending and savings accounts are crucial to a well-run association, the savings aspect of the equation can often be overlooked.

The following are my personal eight golden rules to help you achieve that goal.

Nonprofits are a magical place filled with super passionate hardworking and extremely motivated individuals.

Board members (and staff) should periodically assess the organization’s mission statement and update it as necessary to avoid misalignment of the organization’s purpose. It should inspire, compel, and encourage those...

Many nonprofits employ advisory councils — a group of individuals who advise and support the board's governance work or the management tasks carried out by staff.

Affordable housing is a broad and complex subject that is intertwined with multiple disciplines, including finance, economics, politics, and social services.

For over 75 years, housing cooperatives have been a source of affordable housing. Currently, the 376,000 dwelling units of affordable cooperatives are equivalent to 17 percent of the rent-reduction units...

Housing cooperatives currently provide moderate to low-income families with about 376,000 units of affordable housing.1 This is equal to seventeen percent of the total number of rent reduction housing units...

For the millions of Americans with mobility issues, emergencies such as fires and floods pose a particular challenge.

A Comparison of Characteristics of Forest and Farm Coop

A housing co-op is people who together own or control the building(s) in which they live. Instead of buying “real” property, you buy stock or a membership in a cooperative...

Each assisted household declares its total monthly income, before deductions, to the co-op office.

The enclosed curriculum and accompanying materials were developed between 2014 and 2016 as part of an iteration of the Kris Olsen Traveling Cooperative Institute (TCI) program that focused on reaching...

In cooperative development, following a step-by-step deliberative process is crucial because it allows for the review of progress and the gathering of input from potential members after each step, before...

Empirical work in the field of corporate governance is extensive but may not uniformly apply to cooperative businesses with patron-driven, multiple objective functions.

This publication reviews the key elements needed for the successful formation and development of new cooperative businesses. The motivation for and process of forming cooperatives are discussed.

The shortage of affordable housing in the U.S. market has an enormous impact on the quality of life in cities, towns, and rural areas. As community leaders seek solutions to...

Fiscal policy set by the Board should be drawn up in a manner that maximizes the effective use of the members' funds to achieve the best housing possible at the...

The most common problems raised are those involving management. In many cases, the people involved do not understand the management contract under which their co-op is operating; often, in fact,...

Meeting minutes are among the most important documents for cooperative businesses. Collectively, they contain the official record for decisions made by the board of directors and the membership.

Thank you for serving as a director of a charitable nonprofit corporation. Oregonians rely heavily on charitable corporations to provide many public benefits, and our quality of life is dependent...

We found a wide array of available tools that can play various roles in supporting or launching the larger undertaking of organizational capacity development.

This guide is intended to provide licensed plumbers, building contractors, and interested homeowners with an overview of the fixtures, appliances, and actions that can help them conserve water and energy...

Cooperatives have long been recognized as a means of providing affordable housing.