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General Resources about Cooperatives

Cooperatives - An Overview

Cooperatives Community of Practice (online)  UW Extension/US Cooperative Extension System
Co-ops 101 - An Introduction to Cooperatives  USDA Rural Development CIR 55
Cooperatives in Wisconsin: The Power of Cooperative Action  UW Center for Cooperatives
Cooperatives: Principles and Practices in the Twenty-First Century  UW Extension

Cooperative Associations

• National Cooperative Business Association
• National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
  
• National Cooperative Grocers Association
• US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
• National Association of Housing Cooperatives
• Senior Cooperative Housing Foundation
• Cooperative Network (WI and MN)
• North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO)

Cooperative Development Centers

2010 Listing

University Education and Research Centers

United States

• Arthur Capper Cooperative Center
  Dept. Of Agricultural Economics
  Kansas State University
  Manhattan, KS
• Cooperative Enterprise Program
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York
• Quentin N. Burdick Center for Cooperatives
  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND
• Rural Cooperatives Center
  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  University of California - Davis
• School of Community Economic Development
  Southern New Hampshire University
  Manchester, NH
• University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Madison, WI

Canada

• Centre for the Study of Cooperatives
  101 Diefenbaker Place
  University of Saskatchewan
  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Centre for Cooperative and Community-Based Economy
  University of Victoria
  Victoria, British Columbia Canada
• Master of Management - Co-operatives and Credit Unions
  St. Marys University
  Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2L2, Canada