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edit   The Cooperatives Portal Shortcut: P:COOP See also: WikiProject Cooperatives. Though cooperation and cooperative endeavors have existed throughout history, the modern cooperative movement can be said to have started in 1844, with the creation of the Rochdale Principles. These principles define an ethical business model that brings economic and social benefits to people around the world. ...More about cooperatives More about the Rochdale Principles... edit   Selected article Credit unions are called caisses populaires in French-speaking communities of Canada. This one is located in Shediac, New Brunswick A credit union is a cooperative financial institution that is owned and controlled by its members, and operated for the purpose of promoting thrift, providing credit at reasonable rates, and providing other financial services to its members.[1][2][3] Many credit unions exist to further community development[4] or sustainable international development on a local level.[5] Worldwide, credit union systems vary significantly in terms of total system assets and average institution asset size[6], ranging from volunteer operations with a handful of members to institutions with several billion dollars in assets and hundreds of thousands of members. Yet credit unions are typically smaller than banks; for example, the average U.S. credit union has $93 million in assets, while the average U.S. bank has $1.53 billion, as of 2007.[7] The World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) defines credit unions as "not-for-profit cooperative institutions".[8] In practice however, legal arrangements vary by jurisdiction. For example in Canada credit unions are regulated as for-profit institutions, and view their mandate as earning a reasonable profit to enhance services to members and ensure stable growth.[9] This difference in viewpoints reflects credit unions' unusual organizational structure, which attempts to solve the principal-agent problem by ensuring that the owners and the users of the institution are the same people. In any case, credit unions generally cannot accept donations and must be able to prosper in a competitive market economy. Read more... edit   Selected picture A Farmers' grain Co-op in Crowell, Texas. edit   Did you know... Co-op City, located in the Baychester section of the Borough of the Bronx in northeast New York City, is the largest cooperative housing development in the world.[10]. A housing cooperative (not to be confused with a building cooperative) is a legal entity—usually a corporation—that owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings. Each shareholder in the legal entity is granted the right to occupy one housing unit, sometimes subject to an occupancy agreement, which is similar to a lease. The occupancy agreement specifies the co-op's rules. Cooperative is also used to describe a non-share capital co-op model in which fee-paying members obtain the right to occupy a bedroom and share the communal resources of a house that is owned by a cooperative organization. Such is the case with student cooperatives in some college neighborhoods in the United States. edit   Selected quote “ Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police. ” - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) [1]. edit   News Portal:Cooperatives/News Archive edit   Categories Cooperatives: Agent-owned companies · Agricultural marketing cooperatives · Agricultural supply cooperatives · American cooperatives · Artist cooperatives · Canadian cooperatives · Consumers' cooperatives · Cooperative activists · Cooperative federations · Credit unions · Crédit Agricole · Employee-owned companies · Farm Credit System · Food cooperatives · Former cooperatives · Housing cooperatives · Cooperatives in India · Mutual insurance companies · Mutual organizations · Rail cooperatives · Retailers' cooperatives · Social centres · Co-operatives of the United Kingdom · Utility cooperatives · Volunteer cooperatives · Worker cooperatives edit   Things you can do WikiProject: Cooperatives Here are some cooperative related tasks you can do: Requests: Caja Popular Mexicana, New South Wales Co-operative Wholesale Society, Cooperative Individualism, Cooperative Corporations Law, SANASA, ICA Global 300 More... 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