Organizational Examples to Research for existing cooperative business models
1. People’s Community is expanding as our friends, families and neighbors build their awareness and commitment to the benefits of the cooperative business model: http://www.peoples.coop/idea/Vision/vision and http://www.peoples.coop/development
Mission Statement People’s Food Cooperative cultivates a thriving local economy by integrating ecological responsibility, local food systems and cooperative ownership with equitable business practices in a lively community marketplace. The following sentence caught my eye on their webpage by accident: “100-YEAR VISIONING CIRCLES: We will be holding a series of 100-year vision circles, this spring in the courtyard. This will give you the chance to weigh-in on options and visualize them on a timeline. We will be looking out to the year 2110 and in greater detail to 2025.”
2. The dotCoop Global Awars for Cooperative Excellence Announced
From Example 1 I noticed that there was this new TLD “.coop”. I googled it and found this page and company dotCooperation LLC behind it http://www.nic.coop/news/latest_news.asp?id=124. Archived