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These articles are texts on cooperatives - anywhere from co-op philosophies to co-op practices, co-op information, specific co-ops and co-op organizations, and more. This is an effort to collect and make freely accessible information on co-op subjects and how-to-do co-op topics.

Note: These are separate from the Learning Cooperatives and Teaching Cooperatives tools in the Educational Resources section of Cultivate.Coop.

The articles are organized below into three sections:

  1. Portals: These are articles in Cultivate.Coop organized into larger categories. This will allow you to sort through every article that is relevant to a specific category that you are interested in. These may include: Conflict Resolution, Worker Cooperatives, Cooperative Start-Up, Co-op 101, Meeting Facilitation, and more. (Coming soon).
  2. Guided Tour: A specific selection of articles that helps individuals read about cooperative subjects in a linear, start-to-finish fashion. It is like a table of contents. Please check back often as we'll update this continuously as more pages are added and modified.
  3. Collection of every article: (not Educational Resources) All the articles in Cultivate.Coop, listed in alphabetical order.

These three methods of content organization are meant to help you sort through the repository of articles on Cultivate.Coop in the manner that best suits your needs.

Contents

Guided Tour

Co-op 101

  1. Cooperatives
  2. Types of Cooperatives (Brief overview of each type)
    1. Worker Cooperatives
    2. Consumer cooperative
      1. Buying club
    3. Food cooperative
    4. Multi-stakeholder cooperatives
    5. Building cooperative
    6. Note: There are more types of co-ops than the five above. See the full list for a full overview.

Cooperative Philosophy

  1. Seven Cooperative Principles
  2. Cooperative Values
  3. Cooperative Economics

Cooperative Start-Up

  1. Starting a cooperative The below are sub-sections and extra points. See the full "starting a cooperative" article above for a whole overview.
    1. Steps to starting a cooperative
    2. Forms of incorporation
    3. Reasons to start a cooperative
  2. Conversions to cooperatives (Existing organizations that become co-ops)
  3. Creating a shared vision
  4. Mission statements
    1. Case Studies: Cooperative Mission Statements
  5. Budget sources for a start-up cooperative
  6. Foundations and Grantors for Co-op Development

Cooperative Governance and Management

Governance

  1. Committee charters
  2. Organization structure

Meetings

  1. Meeting Facilitation
    1. Roles of a Meeting Facilitator
  2. Agenda Planning
  3. Meeting Minutes
  4. Holding effective meetings
  5. Methods for assessing level of agreement

Decision Making

  1. Deciding how to decide
  2. Consensus decision making

Membership

  1. Shares
  2. Buy-Ins
  3. Membership Rights and Responsibilities in Worker Cooperatives (Worker co-op specific).
  4. Education in Cooperatives

Cooperative Finances

  1. Business plan
    1. S.W.O.T. analysis

Conflict Resolution

  1. Conflict resolution in co-operatives
    1. Questions to Consider during a Group Conflict

Getting help with a co-op

  1. Cooperative Developers

Cooperatives and Social/Economic Change

  1. Cooperatives in low-income communities
    1. Community Economic Development and Cooperatives
  2. Anti-Oppression Resources for Cooperatives
    1. Starting a diversity committee in cooperatives
  3. Cooperatives and Sustainable Communities

Cooperative History and Movement

  1. Cooperative Alliances, Federations, and Networks
  2. History of Cooperatives
    1. History of Cooperatives in the United States
  3. International Cooperative Alliance

Resources for Cooperatives

  1. Films and Videos on Cooperatives (A list of films and videos, including many free ones.)

Software and Data Management

  1. Software
  2. Membership Database Schemas


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