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The ICA CCR Global Research Conference 2025 will bring together numerous stakeholders from the international cooperative ecosystem, including practicioners and policymakers. In addition to discussing the role of cooperatives in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, the conference will also be a great opportunity to explore topics related to cooperation, including cooperative governance, business models, and education.

Abstract and panel proposals submission due : January 15, 2025

Notification of decision on submissions : February 15, 2025

Ji said scaling the cooperative has proven challenging. The Colorado branch launched with about $500,000 donated from local foundations. However, Ji explained that growing that war chest requires carefully seeking out socially responsible investors. She said that if a bank like Wells Fargo approached them and asked to invest, the cooperative would likely reject the offer because the bank is not aligned with its social mission.

Mandela Grocery Cooperative has proudly served our West Oakland community for years, providing access to fresh, healthy food and creating business ownership opportunities for those of us marginalized from traditional small business models. Now, we need your help to secure our future.   

The idea for the country’s first cooperative rail service came to Alex Lawrie in 2004 after another frustrating trip across Somerset.

Having moved to Yeovil four years earlier with his young family, his job as a cooperative development manager involved daily trips across the south-west trying to set up member-owned businesses.

A reluctant motorist, he quickly became frustrated with the rail service he was depending on to get around.

Feelings are still running high over the scandal that has engulfed Nepal’s co-op finance sector, with police and demonstrators clashing in capital Kathmandu yesterday (20 November).

Registration is open for the 9th annual National Home Care Cooperative Conference, scheduled for March 11-14, 2025 in Dulles, Virginia.

When staff at the Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal decided to unionize in March, they were almost immediately hit with layoffs.

The workers who join AlliedUP are not only prepared but empowered to an extent that’s highly unusual in healthcare staffing — AlliedUP is a cooperative, co-owned by its worker members who are each entitled to a share of the 80% of the firm’s profits reserved for employees, the opportunity to run for election to one of the worker slots on the company’s board of directors, as well as a vote on major firm decisions.

Paleri Remeshan, Chairman of the Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society (ULCCS Ltd), traces its origin to the visionary teachings of Vagbhatananda Guru, a prominent figure of the Kerala Renaissance. In the early 20th century, Uralungal in Kozhikode faced extreme poverty, with no employment opportunities for its people.

Inspired by the Guru’s discourse at the Puthalath temple in Mahe in 1917, a group of villagers invited him to their homeland.