ANNOUNCEMENTS
Livestock Gross Margin-Dairy insurance will be introduced to California through a set of educational workshops across the state August 11th - 13th. To learn more and register, visit www.cccd.coop/events/LGMDairy or contact the California Center for Cooperative Development at (530) 297-1032 or info@cccd.coop.
The 2010 Nuts and Bolts of Cooperative Housing Conference will be held September 23, 2010 at the Casa Garden Center in Sacramento. Registration will be open for this event on July 29.
Radio broadcast stories highlight two cooperative development projects are available for download on CCCD's website. These stories feature interviews with Knight's Landing Cooperative Preschool and the Northern California Meat Goat Grower's Cooperative, and address how the cooperative model is being used in these businesses. Video versions of the stories is also available at www.cccd.coop/startup.
Additionally, a tutorial for the start up and operation of a variety of cooperative businesses is available.
CCCD is moving effective July 24, 2010 to 979 F Street, Suite A, Davis, CA 95616. Our office phone number will remain the same -- 530-297-1032 -- as will our fax line at 530-297-1033.
We're pretty excited about the tripling of our office space. If you are ever in Davis, feel free to drop in and visit!
The United Nations passed a resolution Friday, December 18, 2009 declaring 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives, the first time this international body has made such a declaration.
The resolution comes at a time of great fragility for the world’s economy.
“Co-ops help people of all means, from all walks of life, work together for a common good,” said Paul Hazen, National Cooperative Business Association’s (NCBA) president and chief executive officer. “That’s why they’re not only so attractive in the U.S., but in countries around the world.”
While Hazen and several co-ops in the U.S. advocated domestic support, much of the work was done by members of the International Co-operative Alliance, as well as other international cooperatives. Together, the worldwide cooperative movement drew up more than enough U.N. support to pass the resolution.
“We at NCBA want to thank all the co-ops that helped lobby for the resolution. This never would have happened without so many co-ops working together,” Hazen said.
Previous U.N. observances have included the International Year of Microcredit in 2005, an event which preceded by one year Muhammad Yunus’ and the Grameen Bank’s reception of the Nobel Peace Prize, which they received for their work in microcredit lending.