Cooperatives play an important role in facilitating access to credit, procurement and storage distribution of input and marketing of products. They create employment opportunities particularly in the rural areas and allow disadvantaged groups to be organized for social and economic benefits. When we are talking about fact presentation and backing about how sustainable a cooperative […]
Víctor H. Pinzón Parra: una vida dedicada al cooperativismo
Uno de los dos líderes visionarios que junto con 27 médicos se unieron para conjugar propósitos y voluntades y fundaron el 4 de marzo de 1.964 la Cooperativa Médica del Valle y de profesionales de Colombia. Médico, especialista en Pediatría, tocado por el espíritu del cooperativismo, ha sido su maestro en diferentes espacios, dentro y […]
A Cooperative Leader in the Philippines
Antonio Cecilio ” Fr. Anton” Tuason Pascual A Cooperative Leader in the Philippines 30 years of humanitarian, servant leadership, and stewardship excellence in the fields of social development and cooperative social enterprise is how best to summarize his accomplishments. Rev. Fr. Antonio Cecilio Tuason Pascual more popularly known as Fr. Anton was ordained in 1987 in […]
Co-operative Councils’ Innovation Network
This is one of the most challenging periods in local government history. Public Sector funding continues to decline; councils are having to look for innovative ways of providing services with reducing budgets. The Network comprises 22 UK local authorities who are driving global municipal co-operative policy development with a common belief in the Values and […]
Sustainability: inbuilt in the cooperative model
In 2013 the global representative body for the global cooperative sector, the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), decided it was time to take action on sustainability. Oft used as a term to describe cooperatives, the ICA wanted to understand in great detail in fact how appropriate and accurate the term “sustainable” was to describe the cooperative […]
Participation: The Glue That Binds
Every week, the members of the Shallalà Honey Producers cooperative in southern Ethiopia must walk seven or eight kilometres to attend their regular meeting. The Italian consumers’ cooperative Coop Adriatica has 1.16 million members, making an Annual General Meeting for all an impossibility. All over the world, cooperatives face different challenges in ensuring that their members can have their […]
Co-cylce 2013 Tour
Co-cycle is now accepting applications for the 2013 Tour (deadline extended to April 15th). Join them today! Co-cycle will be traveling from Seattle to Boston from early June to Mid-August. Download the Co-cycle Rider Application here and please submit the application to info@co-cycle.coop no later than April 15th.
International Womens Day 2013
Today is International Womens Day, a time to celebrate womens achievements around the world. On March 8th every year the political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner. Since the beginning, the democratic and open form of cooperative businesses was particularly appealing and welcoming […]
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