Members & Community

If your co-op has vacancies for any other reason, we suggest you try these ideas.

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Access to a safe, decent, and affordable home can build a stable foundation for families and propel them to improve their health, boost their educational attainment, and increase their economic mobility

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Gossip is harmful in all organizations, and community associations are no exception.

To help you choose individuals best suited to represent the association, let's examine the five ways people handle conflict, from the least to the most effective:

Explore Board Source's new theory of change and shift towards community engagement.

A welcome packet should be the first correspondence that the association sends to them.

Though cooperative businesses have existed for over 100 years, evidence about their unique contributions to American economic activity, community vitality, and worker well-being is still emerging. International research on cooperatives...

Housing co-operatives are membership organizations. People can become their members. Their memberships are what define them.

An alternative process that many co-ops are using is consensus. Consensus is a process of building a united judgment whose purpose is not to avoid conflict but to bring out...

Some of the bad things that happen to board members happen because they don't ask any questions about what the service will entail.

Do your board members seem disinterested during meetings? Do your discussions regularly stall? It could be because your board is not being asked to think critically.

Ask your average co-op member what their co-op’s biggest problem is. It’s likely that they’ll say, “lack of participation”.

Remember: if a Board decision is required, Board Members have clear legal and regulatory requirements about how they communicate.

Are nonprofit board members required to conduct themselves in any particular manner? Yes! Under well-established principles of nonprofit corporation law, a board member must meet certain standards of conduct and...

As the board of directors, you must know that both real and apparent conflicts of interest can occur while conducting business

Rather than passively accept a future shaped by outside forces, nonprofit and local community leaders came together to define a vision and strategy for change. They set in motion Moving...

The code of conduct guides a director in areas such as communication, staff liaison, and taking public positions.

In this booklet, we start by outlining some basic communication concepts. We then examine steps we can take to enhance communication, including avoiding misunderstandings that arise from assumptions based on...

perhaps even the long-term ‘holy grail’ – for pursuing a more embedded, engaged and ultimately a more encompassing energy transformation for our societies. People – as consumers and prosumers

Homeownership has been a cornerstone of US housing policy since the Great Depression.  Its normative value is steeped in visions of white picket fences and manicured lawns. An economic preference...

Whilst it’s true that good governance will help co-operatives avoid many of the conflicts that can arise when a group of people work together, it’s also important to consider how...

‘Noise’ can occur in the sender, in the receiver, or in the channel. ‘Noise’ means anything that gets in the way of the receiver's understanding of the sender’s meaning.