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Cooperative Development

• 10 national programs
• National cooperative development priorities
• Seamless cooperative development system

This explosion of cooperative development has occurred as a reaction to the continued concentration of wealth and our global economy. We believe that to be reactive to these economic forces is not in the best interest of our cooperative membership. To achieve our goal of becoming a strong fourth sector of the economy and to organize even more cooperatives, ten cooperative development organizations in the US, have restructured their programs into CooperationWorks. CooperationWorks is a unified system of cooperative development centers and development partners, cultivating cooperation as a cornerstone of prosperous, sustainable communities. CooperationWorks has established national economic development priorities that will focus our resources into building partnerships with the public and private sector to establish joint ventures for creating cooperatives. Our goal is to create a seamless national cooperative development system that will encourage a new wave of cooperation that will, in turn, create jobs that pay a living wage and give people power and voice.

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