The CCRN-RCRC is your gateway to research on co-operatives in Canada. The goal of this site is to create an online network of co-operative researchers and practitioners that allows for idea exchange, research-sharing, collaboration, determining research priorities and creating a link between researchers, students, practitioners and existing co-op networks year-round.
This presentation was given at the 2009 NASCO Cooperative Education and Training Institute
This is a brief descriptions of what a co-op is, as well as the different types of co-ops that exist.
Statement of Co-op Identity: The Rochdale Principles. Adopted by the International Cooperative Alliance in 1995.
The first installment of a book on student co-op history by NASCO's former Executive Director, Jim Jones.
A history of NASCO from inception to the present.
This is a 2007 study of housing cooperatives in the upper Midwest (in Madison, Chicago and Iowa City) entitled 'Housing Cooperatives and Health'. It aims to investigate the relationships between living in a housing cooperatives and tenant-shareholders' physical and emotional health. Questions and comments welcome. Contact Jeff Bessmer (jeffbessmer@gmail.com).
This is a PowerPoint presentation from a workshop presented at NASCO Institute 2010 by Kim Penna from College Houses and Erin Hancock of the Canadian Cooperative Association.
This presentation was given by Steve Dubb of the Democracy Collaborative at NASCO's 2008 Cooperative Education and Training Institute.
An introduction to Brotherhood Economics (Toyohiko Kagawa) and the overlap between cooperative principles and Christianity. This essay was written by Rev. William Alfred Clint (1906-1980).
