After having its funeral home contracts cancelled twice in 18 months by a large mulinational corporation, Service Corporation International, the members of PEOPLES MEMORIAL Association voted at their annual meeting on April 12, 2007 to open their own cooperative funeral home in Seattle. This new funeral home would be owned by the members of PEOPLES […]
People’s Memorial Funeral Cooperative
PEOPLES MEMORIAL Funeral Cooperative is a member-owned funeral home founded to serve the communities of the Seattle-King County area. As a member-owned cooperative, our focus is on serving our members and their families rather than on meeting sales quotas.
How Fonus made funerals affordable
Men in black plundering estates was how newspapers depicted the Swedish funeral industry in 1944. So outrageous was the price of burying your dead that the debate reached as far as the Swedish parliament. Moving into action the Church of Sweden approached the Swedish Cooperative Union, the KF, hoping the popular movement could help. And […]
Fonus
Fonus economic association was founded in order to promote an ethical practice within funeral services and deliverance at moderate prices. With subsidiaries in Sweden and Norway, Fonus, besides certified funeral services, operates in family law and we are accordingly able to attend to our customers throughout their lives. The unique cooperative ownership gives members insight […]
Beyond Rural Electrification
A casual visit sometime in the summer of 2007 in Purok Cadanlaan, Dahican, a secluded and quiet village in the shoreline of the Pacific at the eastern part of the City of Mati was the start of a dream come true for the residents of the village and its neighboring ones. No more was this […]
Davao Oriental Electric Cooperative, Inc. (DORECO)
Since 1977 the DORECO has been not only a mere catalyst, but a strong pillar of progress and economic development both in the urban areas and in the countryside of the Province of Davao Oriental. With just a loan from the government as its sole capitalization, DORECO has grown to deliver electric service even to […]
N.Y. Co-op Helps Preserve Jobs
An electric cooperative in New York has helped state and local officials keep more than 1,000 jobs in an area ravaged by storms and flooding last fall. The co-op will use low-cost hydroelectric power to serve a new industrial account that will triple its overall commercial and industrial load. We were ground zero for Hurricane […]
Delaware County Electric Cooperative
Serving more than 5,200 consumer-members in four upstate New York counties, the small co-ops service territory primarily consists of the rural areas surrounding 21 towns. Organized in the months before the United States entered World War II, a lack of materials and power prevented it from beginning service until June 29, 1944, when just over […]
Keeping Water Flowing in Chile
Fresh, clean, affordable water. It is difficult to imagine anything more important. Throughout rural Chile small cooperatives manage regional sanitation. Driving through the countryside, one sees occasional lagoons and water tanks glinting in the distance. Dedicated community members maintain these reservoirs and the pipes and drainage systems that keep them functioning. However, groups often work […]
Federacion Nacional de Cooperativas de Servicios Sanitarios Ltda. FESAN
FESAN, the National Federation of Sanitary Services Cooperatives, is an organization representing small and medium organizations providing water and treatment services. Our mission is to contribute to professionalization; management, administrative and technical capacity building; and collaboration among cooperatives and other organizations in the sector. We aim to increase the capacity of these organizations to contribute […]