ACE Board – Call for Nominations
Deadline for application: Friday, June 30, 2023 The Nominating Committee of the ACE Board of Directors is currently seeking candidates for the ACE Board of Directors. If you are interested in running for the ACE Board of Directors, please send the following information to info@ace.coop for consideration by the ACE Board Nominating Committee. The deadline […]
Introducing our keynote speaker: Jose Julian Ramirez Ruiz, Executive Director of FIDECOOP!
Introducing our keynote speaker: Jose Julian Ramirez Ruiz, Executive Director of FIDECOOP! José Julián Ramírez Ruiz, M.A., is an experienced leader and advocate in the co-operative development field. He is currently the Executive Director of Fondo de Inversión y Desarrollo Cooperativo (FIDECOOP), a cooperative investment and development fund based in Puerto Rico. FIDECOOP plays a […]
Call for ACE Hall of Fame Nominations Is Open—Please Submit Them Now!
By Steve Dubb Every year, the Association of Cooperative Educators acknowledges the outstanding work of co-operative educators. We have five categories. It is not required to give an award in each category every year, but we want to make sure to recognize people in our field of cooperative education and development who merit recognition. Please […]
Introducing AJANI Group: A Champion for Sustainable Community Development
By Gary Hampton The AJANI Group is a cooperative organization established in 2021 to combat structural systemic inequities and is committed to promoting sustainable community development. The group aims to make a positive impact on local communities by advancing economic growth, social justice, and environmental justice. The cooperative is built around the principles of cooperation, […]
Remembering Louie
May 2, 2023On the passing of Louis G. Doering on March 13, 2023 In the cooperative community, we have principles. One of them is the commitment to education about the cooperative business model. When thinking and talking about cooperative education, a few questions that always surface include:How did you first learn about cooperative education?How did […]
Board Chair Reflections on ACE Institute
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 […]
Co-operative Development Training through an Indigenous lens
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. […]
How Employee Ownership Can Address the Racial Wealth Gap
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 […]
US Co-operative Hall of Fame Inducts Class of ‘22
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 […]
Future of Cooperative Education
At ACE’s Institute in Vancouver, participants challenged the co-op education field to expand and refine the co-op education toolkit to meet the growing co-op hunger and co-op development needs of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities. At ACE, Co-op Leaders Call on Movement to Expand the Co-op Education Toolkit By Steve Dubb Last […]