CO-OPERATIVE ENTERPRISE -  BUILDING A BETTER WORLD  

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Co-operative Solving World Problems

The is no better time than the present to consider what co-operative organizations around the world might do to help mitigate the social and economic consequences resulting from the spread of the corona virus, as well as other conflicts that are occurring.  Here are some examples.

       Key Resources on Cooperative and SSE Responses to COVID-19

       Building Back Better - Europe and Around the World

        Electric Co-operatives in the USA 

As strange as it may seem, co-operative organizations tend to do better overall than both public sector and private sector organizations in times of crisis.  

    Global Co-operative Development Group Switches to Network

 

The Global Co-operative Development Group Inc has changed from being a traditional co-operative organization into an online development network. Our new name is now the Global Co-operative Development Network.  Our Co-operative Enterprise brand remains unchanged. We continue to have the same purposes and objectives which are to:

1. Provide a space for co-operative practitioners, researchers, developers, and educators to contribute their experience and expertise to support the development of co-operative enterprises globally.
2. Help promote awareness, understanding and appreciation of the unique aspects of the co-operative enterprise business model.
3. Stimulate positive growth in and across co-operative systems of enterprises through research and development, evaluation, and strategic intelligence activities and initiatives.
4. Acquire or create and deliver information technologies which help to empower, inform, involve, educate and connect co-operatives and their members.
   

 

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Did you know.....

Co-operatives employ 20% more people globally than multinationals employ.

 

Co-operatives are the largest social movement in the world.

 

 

Co-operatives Enterprise - US$1.1 trillion in annual turnover by the 300 largest co-operatives.

 

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 We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used

when we created them.        Albert Einstein