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...

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...

An example role profile for a cooperative secretary

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 Unification Highlights From 1989 To Early 1999

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...

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.

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 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...

Members who use the cooperative own their co-op because they finance it in a variety of ways. They share both the business risks and the business profits. Each cooperative determines...

Examples of Cooperative or collective action can be traced back to our prehistoric predecessors, who recognized the advantages of hunting, gathering, and living in groups rather than individually.

Cooperatives are typically based on the cooperative values of "self-help, self-responsibility, democracy and equality, equity and solidarity" and the seven cooperative principles.

This is an educational guide for teaching basic information about cooperatives. It explains what cooperatives are— their business, principles, and structural characteristics, as well as the responsibilities and roles of cooperative...

This booklet introduces you to the attributes that distinguish a cooperative from other ways to organize and conduct a business. Its purpose is to help you understand what makes cooperatives...

The Board of Directors is ultimately responsible for ensuring the credit union is operated in a safe and prudent manner and for ensuring adherence to standards of prudent and sound...

The board’s fundamental task in a crisis is to ensure that the organization operates legally and ethically. It may also be called on to perform nontraditional and unexpected duties.

Cooperatives are unique business organizations. Many of their unique characteristics have a direct impact on how decisions are made, as well as the ultimate outcome of those decisions. This study...

A cooperative can be defined in various ways; no single definition is sufficient for our study.

Worker cooperatives are built on a framework of democracy, but this does workers very little good unless the means to exercise their rights and enjoy the protections this framework provides...

Housing affordability is particularly critical due to the strong increase in remote working (telework) during the pandemic, which is accelerating the movement to more affordable places. It will likely also...

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.

It briefly reviews the federal law that offers minimal protection for volunteers and explains why, for most nonprofits, directors and officers liability insurance is a valuable risk financing tool.

This report presents questions that directors should ask when carrying out their responsibilities. The questions pertain to a host of issues and circumstances confronting directors. They are intended to remind...

Disaster Preparedness for People with Disabilities has been designed to help individuals with physical, visual, auditory, or cognitive disabilities prepare for natural disasters and their consequences.