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DotCoop, the sponsor of the .coop domain name, has announced the winners of its Global Awards for the promotion of 'Co-operative Excellence' through the internet.

Create post Think you know what big business looks like? Think again. According to Charles Gould, Director-General of the International Cooperative Association, cooperatives are poised to be the fastest growing business...

From the iVLG blog: Today’s post is going to digress from discussing the standard business model and introduce you to a different form of running a business: the worker cooperative. These organizations come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Below...

Oblique Solutions NWQ offers collaborative approaches to problem solving from Bob Davis in the great Northwest.  Consulting for Co-op Development, Governance, Consensus Decision-Making & Facilitation. Hands on experience working in co-...

Equal Exchange, the largest worker-owned coffee roasting facility in the United States, is looking for a Production Assistant to join our production team.  The successful applicant will become a part of our production team which seeks to be a...

Professor John Lawrence, a member of the Grassroots Economic Organizing collective, writes in Baltimore's Indypendent Reader in 2007.  During the industrial revolution in the United States, labor organizations such as the National Trades'...

A 2010 thesis paper by Christopher Wright at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Worker cooperatives have a long and tortured history, but recently they have been advancing globally on a more stable foundation than before. In this essay I...

As the co-operative domain name, dotCoop, reaches its tenth anniversary, Anthony Murray speaks to Carolyn Hoover, Chief Executive of dotCooperation — the management organsiation that oversees the movement's space on the web....

From the Star Tribune Article by: ERIC WIEFFERING When Brent Heuth and a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin decided to measure the economic impact of cooperative-owned businesses in the United States, they didn't figure it would be...

The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives, the oldest regional worker cooperative federation in the U.S. since its founding in 1994, may be going through some structural changes because of difficulties getting member cooperatives to seat...

Co-operators across the United States are being urged to put their full support behind the National Cooperative Development Act by encouraging political Representatives to commit to the Bill. Here, National Cooperative Business Association Chief...

Congressman Chaka Fattah introduced the National Cooperative Development Act along with three other supporters from the House. The Democratic representative for Pennsylvania's 2nd district, Congressman Fattah is Congressional leader for...