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Organic Valley invites small family farms into co-op to save their businesses

The US co-op has offered the lifeline to 80 farms in the northeast after they lost…

Brazos Electric goes to mediation in court row over $2bn storm power bill

The co-op is disputing a bill from the state grid operator after the storms of February…

Federation of Southern Co-ops heads for court to fight for Black farmers’ debt relief

Legal actions are blocking a $4bn package aimed at tackling 100 years of economic racial injustice

REI workers win vote to unionise in Manhattan

An REI store in Manhattan has become the co-op retailer’s first unionised branch, following an in-person…

US credit union tech platform CFS rebrands as Co-op Solutions

'Over the last few years we have aggressively invested in the company to produce a payments…

REI relaunches membership programme

The outdoor retail co-op plans to grow its membership from 20 million to 50 million by…

New US loan fund to support co-ops in underserved communities

Rochdale Capital, launched by the National Cooperative Bank, will 'advance the development of community ownership and…

Testing times for Texas electric co-ops a year on from knockout storm

After last year's freeze almost collapsed the grid, new measures have been put in place –…

Co-ops in rural America to benefit from USDA funding

The funds aim to move rural America from an extraction economy to a circular economy

The co-op identity should express how inclusive co-ops are, says Doug O’Brien

We caught up with him at the World Cooperative Congress in Seoul, the Republic of Korea

US National Cooperative Bank reports $1.65bn in new loan originations for 2021

Some of the funding provided went to co-operatives

Credit unions prepare to celebrate Credit Union Youth Month in the US

CUNA has developed a range of youth month promotional materials for the use of credit unions