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Co-op innovation summit looks at leadership, millennials and good bosses

One of the biggest challenges in attracting millennials to the sector is a general lack of…

The 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…