By Steve Dubb So, I want to encourage ACE members and supporters to mark their calendars and join us in San Juan, Puerto Rico from August 7th to 10th. Last year, ACE held a hybrid conference in Vancouver. But this year marks the first full-scale cooperative education Institute in four years. You won’t want to

By Audra Krueger from Co-operatives First Co-operatives are a way for people to work together to better their community and reach their common economic, social, and cultural goals. Indigenous people have practiced this community approach to economic development from time immemorial. But colonialization has impacted every aspect of Indigenous society, including historic economic development practices.

By Todd Leverette This article was originally published by Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) on October 5, 2022, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/how-employee-ownership-can-address-the-racial-wealth-gap. We publish it with their kind permission In the United States, worker-owned models of commercial enterprise have been practiced for centuries—and have been codified into law over the last several decades. From the many worker cooperatives documented by

By Steve Dubb October is Co-op Month. In the United States, it also marks the time that Cooperative Development Foundation hosts its annual co-op hall of fame induction ceremony. This year’s class included Allan Gallant, Paul Hazen, Gary Oakland, and Dan Waddle, as well as the posthumous induction of civil rights leader Ella Josephine (“Ella

During these extraordinary times, American college students have had to adapt to online learning formats and a more difficult networking environment. Whereas coffee chats and fireside chats were common on American campuses, the environment in which we live is no longer conducive to these events. Youth unemployment continues to rise in relation to adult unemployment,

Kristi is the Assistant Director of the Quentin Burdick Center for Cooperatives at North Dakota State University, so she happens to serve a lot of farmers. And she’s also experienced the opportunity – and the tension – of an ag-centric career in a field strongly associated with male leadership. It becomes clear, then, that this article will have

We are excited to share this new campaign with you, highlighting the hard work of co-op educators and researchers across the Americas. This month, we are travelling to South Dakota, where we will learn about the South Dakota State University Extension (SDSU) and it’s work in Ag Business and Ag Co-op research. The SDSU Extension fosters a