Sample Board Manual
A sample board training manual, including basic board roles and responsibilities, interactions with staff, and an overview of operations.
Newest Resources
Solara: Hidden Class Assumptions in a Low-income Housing Cooperative
This paper explores causes for the partial organizational failure of a co-operative in Northern California.
Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies
Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies
Adapted from Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice
Paul Kivel, social justice educator, activist, and writer, has been an innovative leader in violence prevention for more than 35 years.
Understanding White Supremacy: Challenging White Privilege and Working for Social Justice
Understanding White Supremacy: Challenging White Privilege and Working for Social Justice
(A speech given at the White Privilege Conference in Memphis, TN in April, 2009)
Paul Kivel, social justice educator, activist, and writer, has been an innovative leader in violence prevention for more than 35 years.
Six successful 501(c)3 applications (Form 1023)
This archive contains the Form 1023s and supporting documentation for the following six cooperatives that have successfully become not-for-profit organizations:
- Bloomington Cooperative Living (Indiana, 2011)
- CHÜVA - Cooperative Housing at the University of Virginia (Virginia, 2005)
- Cooperative Roots (California, 2006)
- Kalamazoo Collective Housing (
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
"The Tyranny of Structurelessness" by Jo Freeman (1970)
Introduction:
During the years in which the women’s liberation movement has been taking shape, a great emphasis has been placed on what are called leaderless, structureless groups as the main form of the movement.
MSU Student Housing Cooperative Promo - Video
The Michigan State University Student Housing Cooperative is a student-run housing organization for affordable and cooperative living in MSU's backyard. For information about the SHC and its houses, go to: http://www.msu.coop/
Directed // Filmed // Edited: Colin Marshall
© 2013
All 4 Each: Co-ops in the Classroom
The Ontario Co-operative Association has successfully re-introduced education about co-operatives into classrooms in a unique and fun way.
Cooperatives in the African American Experience
Prepared for the Babson-Equal Exchange Cooperative Curriculum
By Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ph.D.
Cooperatives: Principles and practices in the 21st century
Written by Kimberly A. Zueli and Robert Cropp, published by the University of Wisconsin, 2004.
This publication is the fourth and most extensive revision of the Marvin A. Schaars' text Cooperatives, Principles and Practices, University of Wisconsin Extension-Madison, Publication A1457, July 1980. What has come to be known simply as "the Schaars book. "was originally written in 1936 by Chris L. Christensen, Asher Hobson, Henry Bakken, R.K.