Posted in Blog, Sound ConneXions on May 21st, 2010
Where your passion to make a difference can come alive! Do you feel that connecting with a group of like-minded people would help you to leverage your social enterprise effort and be more effective? Are you passionate about making the world a better place and not sure where to start? Sound ConneXions is an organization [...]
Posted in Blog, Sound ConneXions on May 21st, 2010
Where your passion to make a difference can come alive! You are invited to participate in the BIG SHIFT. Sound ConneXions Chicago presents a full-day forum to encourage, support and bring to light the meaningful work that so many are passionately engaged in to create the world in which we want to live in. We [...]
Posted in Events Calendar, Housing Resources - national, Resources on Sep 24th, 2008
This November, over 400 housing co-op members, cooperative educators, and representatives of democratic organizations from all over the U.S., Canada, and beyond will converge in Ann Arbor, MI for NASCO’s Cooperative Education and Training Institute. We will exchange ideas, learn new skills, and examine the connections between land use, human rights, economic development, and the [...]
Posted in Resources on Aug 31st, 2008
Co-op America (co-opamerica.org) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. Our Vision We work for a world where all people have enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where [...]
Posted in Resources on Aug 31st, 2008
The National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) www.ncba.coop is the lead national membership association representing cooperatives of all types and in all industries. We are democratically organized and operate according to internationally recognized cooperative principles. Through our comprehensive education, co-op development, communications, public policy, member services, and international development programs, NCBA helps co-ops strengthen their businesses [...]
Posted in Resources on Aug 27th, 2008
The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives (UWCC), (http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu/welc.html) established in 1962, “strives to study, promote and research cooperative action as a means of meeting the economic and social needs of people.” … “The Center organizes various extension/outreach programs directed at all aspects of cooperative business principles, organizing cooperatives, cooperative financing, cooperative structure, cooperative management, [...]
Posted in Housing, Housing Resources - national, Resources on Aug 25th, 2008
The National Association of Housing Cooperatives (www.nahc.coop) is a nonprofit national federation of housing cooperatives, mutual housing associations, member associations, other commonly owned resident-owned or controlled housing, professionals, organizations, and individuals interested in promoting the interests of cooperative housing communities. Organized in 1950 and incorporated in 1960, NAHC is the only national cooperative housing organization. [...]