"Co-operatives are good public policy."

 

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."

W. Edwards Deming

Making Co-operation Powerful

 

If you ever wished?

• That being a co-operative would be an asset when it comes to business success?

• That the management and staff of your co-op understood co-operative values and principles and acted as if they were important to success?

• That the board was as focused on not having the capital to keep up with technology and globalization, as they were about patronage dividends?

• That you could hire a manager or bring in a consultant who saw the challenges of co-operation as an exciting opportunity rather than a handicap?

• That there was not a constant tension between being a co-operative and being successful as a business?

• That you could draw on the best co-operative experiences and solutions from around the world?

  We can be part of your solution! "Co-opportunities"

Co-operatives are the most successful community-based economic democracies in the world. More than 725 million people around the world, in every nation and culture, use co-operatives to meet their economic and social needs. Co-operatives operate successfully in every area of business activity.
The global economy and society are characterized by rapidly growing investor based corporations, worsening distribution of wealth, the erosion of meaningful democracy and increasing ecological stress. Economic democracy, the co-operative way of doing business, offers growing opportunities and increased hope to slow and reverse these trends.
Attitudes toward co-operatives are generally positive. Co-operatives are good public policy! Co-operatives can offer people worried about quality, value, work standards, pollution, product safety and a fulfilling work place, an alternative they can trust. In an increasingly complex world people need to be able to trust businesses they rely upon. They need more real influence. Co-operation offers exciting solutions.