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Neal Gorenflo
+ Co-operatives, Global Affairs, Consumer, Credit Unions, Democracy, Energy, Financial, Mutuals, Housing, Social Enterprise, Youth, Economy, Global News, SocietyCreate 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...
Joe Marraffino
+ Co-operatives, Global Affairs, Consumer, Development, Democracy, Energy, Financial, Mutuals, Health, Producer or Worker, Regional Organisations, Housing, Social Enterprise, Economy, Global News, SocietyFrom isthmus.com Protesters flood the street, chants and song punctuated by drumming and the low, steady honk of a tuba. Sign after sign decries the attack against nurses, teachers and sanitation workers; others demand a living wage in bold letters...
Paul Hazen
+ Development, Energy, Housing, Social Enterprise, SocietyThe International Year of Cooperatives comes at a very exciting and interesting time. Political and economic changes are lining up to call attention to the need for co-ops, complementing the United Nation’s selection of co-ops as its theme...
Lisa Stolarski
+ Co-operatives, Community, Consumer, Democracy, Energy, Education, Politics, Health, Housing, Social EnterpriseRepresentative Chaka Fattah (D–Penn.) has been working closely with members of Cooperation Works! and NCBA to create legislation that will more than double the national capacity for co-op development and provide federal funding for...
Mariana Vilnitzky
+ Co-operatives, Global Affairs, Energy, Producer or Worker, Global News, SocietyEncuentro mundial del cooperativismo, en el lanzamiento del Año Internacional del Cooperativismo de las Naciones Unidas en Cancún."El mundo necesita conocer el modelo cooperativo"-Representantes de 78 países del mundo se reunieron en Cancún (México...
Anthony Murray
+ Consumer, Democracy, Energy, United Nations, Financial, Mutuals, Social Enterprise, Global NewsAt the launch of the International Year of Co-operatives on October 31st, the United Nations issued a document outlining what a co-operative is. What are cooperatives?
NCBA Newsfeed
+ Energy, Social EnterpriseEvery day from her desk at work, Sarah Stineman can gaze out her window across Cobblestone Drive and see bright wildflowers now in full bloom. By next year she hopes to be able to see, out that same window, the beginnings of the $8 million, 44-unit...
NCBA Newsfeed
+ Energy, Social EnterpriseWhen Garry Mbiad’s plane approached Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport in mid-July as part of an NRECA International Programs project, the first thing he noticed was what he didn’t see. Light. “In the U.S., when you land at night, you see a lot...
Nancy Jorgensen
and others + Co-operatives, Community, Consumer, Development, Democracy, Energy, Environment, Mutuals, Fairtrade, Politics, Producer or Worker, Housing, Social Enterprise, SocietySustainability means different things to different people. For most, it simply involves being environmentally friendly. However, there is more to sustainability than immediate environmental impact. A practice may do less damage in the short run...
Andrew McLeod
and others + Agriculture, Co-operatives, Community, Consumer, Democracy, Energy, Environment, Housing, Social Enterprise, Youth, SocietyIn 2009, the Jackson Electric Cooperative decided to make use of eight acres of long-idle farmland behind its headquarters in Black River Falls, Wisc. The co-op offered use of the land to a chapter of FFA, a student organization that...
Andrew McLeod
and others + Agriculture, Co-operatives, Consumer, Democracy, Energy, Housing, Social EnterpriseThe Co-operative Group is Britain’s largest cooperative organization, accounting for roughly 90 percent of all co-op trade in the country. The Group has over 6 million members, and has announced plans to triple that in under a decade. This...
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