Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) recently released a case study of two long-standing producer marketing cooperatives. Over the course of more than two years as part of Northeast SARE Partnership Project ONE19-332, CISA provided in-depth support to Our Family Farms (OFF) and The Pioneer Valley Grower’s Association (PVGA), two cooperatives serving dozens of farms in western Massachusetts.
Co-operatives UK also delivers the Community Shares Booster Programme, which supports groups in England looking at community share offers with development grants and matched funding. Community shares is a form of equity only available to co-operative and community benefit societies.
Join us on Saturday, April 9, 2PM EDT (US) for our next reading group! This session is part of our comparative series on the Zapatistas and the Kurdish Liberation Movement. We will discuss the cooperative economy developed by both movements as well as their vision of achieving an ecologically sustainable society. We will also look at the participation of women in developing cooperative economy in both regions.
Feel free to join even if you don’t get a chance to do the readings!
Millions of Americans—many of them in rural areas—lack access to broadband service. To address this challenge, some electric cooperatives are offering customers high-speed internet in addition to their electric services. Electrical cooperatives are private, nonprofit organizations that provide electricity to customers in their service areas.
Some of your favourite games may have been made by a co-op without you even knowing. In recent years, co-ops have been making themselves known in the indie game space. 2018’s critically-acclaimed Dead Cells was developed by the worker cooperative Motion Twin, which has been operating since 2001. From their website, “We don’t have a boss. We’re all equal and we wanted that to show, both in the way our games are made and in the way we organise ourselves.”
This work draws substantially upon Tarinski’s two main influences, the social theorists and critics Cornelius Castoriadis and Murray Bookchin, and also synthesizes ideas from such well-known thinkers as Hannah Arendt, David Graeber, Elinor Ostrom, David Harvey, and a host of other European and international sources.
In 1984, an unheralded transaction took place in Meredith, New Hampshire: 14 families got together to buy the park. Every bank in the county turned them down but they persevered – first trying their luck with the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund (NHCLF), but at just a few months into its existence it had no money to lend.
- Policy & Advocacy Member Council – This month, members discussed statewide advocacy initiatives to share experiences and best practices, as well as regional updates. Check out our last Policy Pulse for the latest advocacy updates and register for the next Policy & Advocacy member call on April 7th
The Labour-led Islington Council...has taken the bold step of launching Cooperate Islington (CI), a development agency assigned the task of nurturing and investing in the development of new local co-operatives with the goal of kickstarting a co-operative economy in the borough.
Equal Exchange is a worker owned co-operative in the UK and USA. We focus on working in long partnerships with farmer co-ops around the world something we have done for over 40 years now.
