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 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...
The 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...
Representative 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...
Encuentro 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...
At 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?
Every 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...
When 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...
Sustainability 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...
In 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...
The 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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