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22 February '12

Articles in Education

News Article

Anthony Acia

+ Co-operatives, Global Affairs, ICA, Education, Environment, Regional Organisations, Social Enterprise, Global News, Society

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...

News Article

Anthony Acia

+ Co-operatives, Global Affairs, ICA, Education, Environment, Regional Organisations, Social Enterprise, Global News, Society

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...

News Article

Lisa Stolarski

+ Co-operatives, Community, Consumer, Democracy, Energy, Education, Politics, Health, Housing, Social Enterprise

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...

News Article

Lyne Gagnon

+ Co-operatives, Business, Consumer, Development, ICA, Credit Unions, Democracy, Education, Financial, Mutuals, Producer or Worker, Housing, Social Enterprise, Global News, Society

In a recent report to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlighted the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development. The report, which illustrates the contributions of all cooperatives to the...

News Article

Alexandra Armenta

+ Co-operatives, Consumer, Democracy, Education, Financial, Mutuals, Producer or Worker, Housing, Social Enterprise

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...

News Article

Anthony Acia

+ Co-operatives, Global Affairs, ICA, Education, Environment, Regional Organisations, Social Enterprise, Global News, Society

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...

News Article

Anthony Acia

+ Co-operatives, Global Affairs, ICA, Education, Environment, Regional Organisations, Social Enterprise, Global News, Society

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.

News Article

IPS News

+ Democracy, Education, Politics, Health, Social Enterprise

Analysis by Ben Case NEW YORK, Oct 24 (IPS) - The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has withstood political pressure, bad weather, police violence, and over a thousand arrests, and is continuing to grow in New York City a month...

News Article

Anthony Acia

+ Co-operatives, Global Affairs, ICA, Education, Environment, Regional Organisations, Social Enterprise, Global News, Society

El próximo 15 de noviembre se realizará la Asamblea Constitutiva de CICOPA-Américas, en el marco de la Asamblea General de la Alianza Cooperativa Internacional, que se llevará a cabo en Cancún, México.

Blog Entry

Joe Marraffino

+ Co-operatives, Global Affairs, Business, Consumer, Development, Democracy, Education, Financial, Mutuals, Fairtrade, Politics, Health, Producer or Worker, Regional Organisations, Social Enterprise, Economy, Global News, Society

Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet is a book of papers and reports from the 2007 U.S. Social Forum. "The emergence of the global grassroots economic structural reform movement known as the Solidarity Economy. This book...

News Article

Anthony Acia

+ Co-operatives, Global Affairs, ICA, Education, Environment, Regional Organisations, Social Enterprise, Global News, Society

NCGA es una organización cooperativa de compra y comercio para cooperativas de alimentos al por menor en los Estados Unidos. Se trata de una cooperativa de servicios empresariales para cooperativas de alimentos naturales.

News Article

Lyne Gagnon

+ Co-operatives, Development, ICA, Education, Global News, Society

The July 14th press release announcing the 2012 International Summit of Cooperatives has received worldwide media coverage. News of the Summit caught the attention of journalists in Canada, the United States, France, Spain and other countries....