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Show filtersThe cost of borrowing – credit unions as an alternative to unethical sources of finance
As the hard times get harder, action is being taken to keep financially vulnerable people out…
Florida electric co-op building rail line to serve its new industrial estate
Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative is building the rail spur to serve a proposed industrial development
Energy co-ops weigh the costs of the world’s power supply crisis
Suppliers in the sector are struggling with rising costs – but there is also hope that the…
Filene Research Institute and Woccu will share premises to boost credit union work
The two organisations say they have come together in Madison, WI, to allow for new collaborations…
Electric co-op leader appointed to US energy committee
Louis Finkel will bring the voice of America's electric co-ops to the committee, which is looking…
NCBA CLUSA launches co-op development scheme for underserved US farmers
The apex wants to 'cultivate a community-led co-operative development ecosystem to invest in agricultural communities'
Politics Rewired: A tech co-op offering a new way of organising
We chat to Priya Chatwani, a worker-owner at the US co-op
Cooperation Jackson fights for a solution to the US city’s water crisis
'We must be clear about building and fighting for the practical community-based solutions to the water…
US electric co-ops plan to build rural broadband infrastructure
Federal funding has incentivised rural electric co-ops across the USA to work together to provide broadband…
Co-ops represented on US government’s new committee on equity in rural development
Two co-operators sit on the new body – Doug O'Brien from NCBA CLUSA and Curtis Wynn…
South Dakota Hutterian Co-operative in dispute with authorities
The co-op has obtained a 90-day temporary exemption to enable it to cope with the busy…