Courtesy of Shareable.net. Shareable is the online magazine that tells the story of sharing and covers the people and projects bringing a shareable world to life. Cooperative Leaders Meet with White House While the current narrative of the American economy is far from hopeful, cooperatives are setting a more uplifting tone. According to the National Cooperative Business Association in Washington, D.C., 29,000 cooperatives operate in the nation’s economy, and these democratically ...

For the first time in US history, the White House held a national briefing for the widest range ever of US cooperative leaders. The trigger for this historical event was the United Nations declaring 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC). Clearly, the extensive IYC efforts of the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) and its members have had national impact on the White House. Seeing co-ops as a particularly bright spot in the US economy, the Obama Administration asked ...