Articles in Social Enterprise

By Dr Daman Prakash The One village one product movement  is a Japanese regional development program. It began in Japan’s Oita Prefecture in 1979 when the then-governor Morihiko Hiramatsu advocated the program. Implementation started...

By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Feb 3 (IPS) - With a steady growth in production and exports, fair trade in Argentina is proving that socially and environmentally sustainable practices can be much more than a refuge from external crises. 'One...

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...

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...

When the Ecological Farmers of the Sierra Madres of Chiapas (CESMACH) found an important buyer to purchase their coffee, they were elated. “It was a dream come true,” Sixto Bonilla, export manager, says. “For a small-scale farmer organization to...

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...

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....

The Co-operative Group has hit the big time as one of its stores is featured in “Arthur Christmas”, the 3-D animated children’s comedy film produced by Aardman Animations and Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Columbia...

The following Action Alert was written by our friends at Fair World Project on November 28, 2011. Take Action! Send a letter to Fair Trade USA, Fairtrade International and IMO and urge them to continue supporting small coffee farmers by not...

For over sixteen years, a nonprofit called Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security has incubated and supported worker cooperatives to advance a vision of economic empowerment and opportunity for immigrant women. Today, the four worker-owned...

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...