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- Wikipedia: Cooperative - Online encyclopedia article about cooperative businesses and the cooperative movement. Includes cross-references to related articles.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Business-Cooperative Service - Mission is to promote understanding and use of the cooperative form of business as a viable organizational option for marketing and distributing agricultural products. Includes USDA eForms, a library of publications, industry regulations, and a directory of field offices.
- Stelnet Italy Business Services - Italian Small Business Network: contact 50 resident business partners, 5,000 selected italian companies, market research, resident services for your business and trade with Italy. Official European Commission Correspondent for business cooperation.
- National Cooperative Business Association - Contains general information on American cooperative businesses, a co-op events calendar, and NCBA membership information.
- U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council - Cooperative Development Center - Created to help practitioners, donors or others interested in cooperative development. Offers basic cooperative methodologies and information.
- Cooperative Hall of Fame - Honors those distinguished individuals whose contributions to cooperative business have been genuinely heroic. Includes biographies of inductees and general information on the organization.
- Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives - COPAC joins businesses of the cooperative movement with the United Nations, and farmers' and workers' organizations. General info on COPAC and its member organizations.
- The Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative, LLC - Cooperative of private landowners, who stand for sustainable forestry and the preservation of working forest landscapes in Western Massachusetts.
- Cooperative Development Services (CDS) - Nonprofit organization created and governed by the cooperative community of the Upper Midwest for the purpose of developing related businesses in all sectors of the economy.
- Center for Cooperatives - General information, directory of US West Coast co-ops, and information on planning and running cooperatives, from the University of California at Davis.
Wikipedia Articles
- National Cooperative Business Association - Founded in 1916 as the Cooperative League of America, the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) is a United States membership organization for cooperatives, businesses that are jointly-owned and democratically-controlled.
- Einar Enger - Einar Enger is a Norwegian business executive currently Chief Executive Officer of Norges Statsbaner. He was educated as an agrarian economist from the Agricultural University of Norway and worked entirely for the agricultural cooperatives in Norway until appointed CEO of the Norwegian State Railways in 2001.
- History of the cooperative movement - The history of the cooperative movement concerns the origins and history of cooperatives. Although cooperative arrangements, such as mutual insurance, and principles of cooperation existed long before, the cooperative movement began with the application of cooperative principles to business organization.
- Vladimir Matijević - Vladimir Matijevic (1854-1929) was the founder of the Serbian Business Society Privrednik, the biggest Serbian humanitarian society, in 1897 in Zagreb,Serbian bank and Union of agricultural cooperatives.
- Social economy - Social economy refers to a third sector in economies between the private sector and business or, the public sector and government. It includes organisations such as cooperatives, non-governmental organisations and charities.