The Global News Hub for Co-operatives
22 February '12

Articles in Regional Organisations

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Joe Marraffino

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Joel Schoening has a thorough retrospective on the demutualized business in the Oregon Historical Quarterly's Fall 2010 edition.  "Over the next twenty years, the cooperative they created faced its share of organizational and financial...

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Joe Marraffino

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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...

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Joe Marraffino

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From the National Center for Employee Ownership: Many smaller companies want to share ownership with employees but find the legal costs and complexities of various common plans daunting. For owners wanting to sell to employees, an employee stock...

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Joe Marraffino

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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-...

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Joe Marraffino

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This one-day conference  June 13, 2012 at Drexel University in Philadelphia will explore what two cities can learn from one another about building cooperatives and cooperative networks, and what cooperatives contribute to cities, regions and...

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Joe Marraffino

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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...

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Joe Marraffino

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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...

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Joe Marraffino

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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'...

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Joe Marraffino

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Gary Hansen was a professor of economics, and of management and human resources at Utah State University, and co-author of Putting Democracy to Work: a practical guide for starting and managing worker-owned businesses, and of Steps to Starting a...

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Joe Marraffino

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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...

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Anthony Acia

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Uno de esos emprendimientos es Sevananda Natural Foods Market, creado hace 37 años en Atlanta, la capital del sudoriental estado de Georgia. Sevananda planea llevar a cabo varios programas en ocasión del Año Internacional de las Cooperativas. Entre...

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Anthony Murray

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British consumers are being encouraged to move their money to a more ethical organisation. Mirroring a similar campaign in the United States, the UK Move Your Money initiative is telling people to move their money to the Co-operative Bank,...

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Carolyn Hoover

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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....

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Anthony Acia

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Recientemente, Paul Hazen dejó su cargo de presidente y CEO de la Asociación Nacional de Negocios Cooperativos (NCBA) con base en Washington DC; la organización cooperativa más antigua de los Estados Unidos. Durante el período liderado por Hazen, el...

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Joe Marraffino

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Another great article is up on the blog of Shift Change, a documentary film in progress telling the little known stories of employee owned businesses that compete successfully in today’s economy while providing secure, dignified jobs in democratic...

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Joe Marraffino

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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...

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Anthony Acia

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El informe, que presenta las contribuciones de todas las cooperativas para el desarrollo sostenible de las comunidades, también examina el impacto de las cooperativas financieras en todo el mundo. Según el informe, las cooperativas están presentes...

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Paul Hazen

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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...

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Co-operative News

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Supporters of the National Cooperative Development Act can encourage their political Representative to show a committment towards the legislation by filling in this form, powered by PopVox. The National Cooperative Business Association, which...

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Joe Marraffino

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"In the age of unemployment, downsizing, and outsourcing, where can a poor soul find a job? Well, maybe it’s time we create our own. Self-employment is an option and can seem freeing, but it’s hard to do everything yourself and find time for a non-...

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Joe Marraffino

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Call for Papers – Special Issue of Organization Deadline 28th February 2013 Worker' Cooperatives as an organizational alternative: Challenges, achievements and promise in organizational governance and ownership Guest Editors Iñaki Santa Cruz....

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Anthony Acia

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Invitó al movimiento cooperativo a darle una mayor importancia a la utilización de los medios de comunicación social para promover las cooperativas y el Año Internacional. El desafío para 2012 sería volver “viral” el mensaje cooperativo. El...

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Anthony Acia

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La importancia de las cooperativas agrícolas para mejorar las vidas de pequeños campesinos y sus familias no debe menospreciarse, según los organismos de Naciones Unidas con sede en Roma.

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Joe Marraffino

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"This course provides an introduction to the modern cooperative movement. (More than 800 million people around the world are members of co-operatives, including an estimated 1 in 4 Americans) Our goal is to acquaint students with the historical...