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At a time when income inequality is on the rise around the world, it is essential to remember that solutions to inequality exist. The co-operative model is foremost among these.

A housing cooperative can be a high-rise apartment building, a garden-style apartment, a townhouse, a single-family home, a senior housing complex, or a manufactured home park.

Cooperatives are formed in response to an economic need, such as providing marketing, processing, bargaining, manufacturing, and purchasing services that are not currently available or are available only at an excessive...

Co-operatives were originally established as a practical way to help working people use self-help to improve their conditions.

This article will teach and remind you of the answers to the following dozen issues:

The National Cooperative Bank (NCB) was chartered by Congress in 1978 and privatized as a cooperatively owned financial institution in 1981, currently owned by 2,900 customers/owners.

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.

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

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

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

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 refers to any agreement that combines marketing efforts. And thus it can appear in many forms.

Cooperative societies were created long before the advent of the fair-trade movement to help workers improve their livelihoods and protect their interests.

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.

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.

Build skills for assessing needs in a community context, build skills for identifying when a cooperative is and isn’t an appropriate solution to meet needs

The Self Assessment Workbook: Corporate Governance - Board of Directors (the “Workbook”) is for use by all credit unions

Families all across the United States are struggling to afford the cost of a home. Everywhere you look — cities, suburbs, rural areas — the stability that home should bring...

Thus far, we have accounted for just over 300,000 units of the 425,000 estimated to have been produced, 166,608 of which are still limited equity. In the document below, we...

The agendas included a dozen reports and updates that ate up valuable time. Discussions were not innovative, inspiring, or visionary. Directors whispered, “This is a waste of our time.”

An elevator speech is a concise, easily articulated description of your organization. The term comes from the need to communicate a message in the time it takes to ride an...

Every co-op should have a Conflict-of-Interest Policy as part of its bylaws or policy manual.

“The world is such a changeable place that you need to have a well-articulated long-term sense of where you’re going, which gives you the base, the confidence, to take on...