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Mike Beall, president and CEO of the National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International, will testify on behalf of NCBA CLUSA members and supporters during a U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on the oppportunities and challenges surrounding... Read more >
La Casona Cooperative was once operated by the Ministry of Tourism. The workers made the decision to become a cooperative seven months ago. Cooperatives have operated in Cuba's agricultural sector since the start of the revolution in 1959. New economic and social guidelines adopted in 2011 after a nationwide discussion provide the blueprint for the far-reaching restructuring going on in Cuba.... Read more >
National Cooperative Bank (NCB), a leading financial institution which provides banking products and services to southern Ohio and the nation's cooperatives announced today that in celebration of Financial Literacy Month, that its schools-based financial education program has now reached more than 700 students.... Read more >
In 1994, from April to July, Rwanda was devastated by a brutal genocide. This war-ravaged nation was left with 70 percent women who had to rebuild the country. In an attempt to rehabilitate, the government encouraged women, especially artisans, to form cooperatives and be entrepreneurial.
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“Our members have invested nearly $100 million in the last five years in dairy processing that has brought increased capacity to our plants, added value to our members’ milk and created jobs for the community,” Nobis (MMPA President) said. “However, we are not finished with expansion as we move forward into 2015, because we see continued production growth by our members and growing global... Read more >
Some parts of Co-op Nation require a passport to visit—such as Costa Rica, where NRECA International helped get two electric cooperatives started half a century ago. In 1965, the co-ops barely had 600 members combined. Today that number is well past 144,000.
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THE Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) emphasized on Tuesday that joining cooperatives will help Filipinos fight poverty.
CDA chairman Orlando R. Ravanera said the cause of poverty is not the lack of resources but powerlessness of the people to have access on and control of resources.
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Exciting news from Common Ground Food Co-op in Champaign! After two years of feasibility study and a one year site search, that Common Ground Food Co-op has just signed a lease, with contingencies, for a 2nd store in downtown Champaign at 500 N. Walnut Street.
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On March 18, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio continued his public support of worker cooperatives as a tool to address economic inequality, signing into law the first ever piece of city legislation to require a city's economic development arm to track municipal support of worker cooperatives.
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A new startup called Bankjoy wants to bring a modern-day web and mobile banking experience smaller banks with a white-labelled product and accompanying API platform that’s initially being aimed at credit unions.
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