18 August
NCBA’s President and CEO Paul Hazen took advantage of a trio of outreach opportunities during the month of July to promote the cooperative model.
18 August
Government policy makers last week committed to developing economic policy and payments system support for credit unions and financial cooperatives in El Salvador, enabling them to help boost sagging loan support for the small and micro-business sector. The commitment was made in response to a joint visit by officials from the Federation of Savings and Credit Cooperatives of El Salvador (FEDECACES) and World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU).
18 August
Dennis Deters, executive vice-president of The Co-operators (Canada), has had his contribution and commitment to the cooperative sector acknowledged by the Canadian Co-operative Association.
18 August
Inspired by ICMIF CEO Shaun Tarbuck's presentation The Future is Cooperative on the occasion of La Equidad's 40th anniversary, María de Valdivia Angeles, corporate communications manager for Uruguay member Surco, reflects on the significance of the cooperative brand.
18 August
The decision by the UN General Assembly to celebrate 2012 as International Year of Cooperatives is already being seized on in Canada, where plans are being drawn up to maximise the potential of the year.
13 August
With the final approval of a $33.9 million matching grant to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association from the Department of Energy, nineteen electric cooperatives now embark on a unique, nationwide demonstration project deploying more than 153,000 smart grid components across the country to test the value of the new technologies for cooperative consumer members.
13 August
Congress should raise the lending limits for credit unions because it would help small businesses and create jobs, said Bill Cheney, president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association.
13 August
Credit unions in nearly all regions worldwide saw an increase in member savings and loan activity during 2009, according to World Council of Credit Unions' (WOCCU) newly released 2009 Statistical Report. The trend illustrates the increasingly more important roles that credit unions and other financial cooperatives worldwide played in their members' lives during last year's global recession.
13 August
In the spring of 2010, CCA commissioned Ipsos Reid to conduct a national survey measuring Canadians' perceptions and awareness of co-operatives. The survey was commissioned in preparation for the International Year of Co-operatives, which will take place in 2012. CCA will consider the survey results when preparing key messages and planning activities to take place during the International Year.
27 July
The Canadian Worker Coop Federation (CWCF) has recently completed two research papers, each on success factors for growing the worker co-op movement. One focused on the movements in each of Italy, Spain (Mondragon) and France which have the largest and most dynamic worker co-op sectors in the world; the other on the movement in Canada.
