FORMING A COOPERATIVE File Articles of Incorporation. Create Bylaws. Create a Membership Application. Conduct a Charter Member Meeting and Elect Directors. Obtain Licenses and Permits. Hiring Employees.
Cooperatives provide services in areas where private for-profit businesses don't see sufficient profit potential. Common examples of cooperatives include agricultural cooperatives, electric cooperatives, retail cooperatives, housing cooperatives and credit unions.
Unions and guilds organize against a business, but a cooperative is a business itself, designed to work for its members. Members own, self-manage, and profit from a cooperative business.
The structure of a co-op means that it can transfer shares from one owner to another. If a member moves out of the area, dies or no longer wants to be part of a cooperative, they can sell their stake or membership in the co-op to someone else.
A cooperative is an association of persons (organization) that is owned and controlled by the people to meet their common economic, social, and/or cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled business (enterprise).
Cooperatives are businesses owned by “member-owners”. Co-ops are democratically controlled by their member-owners, and unlike a traditional business each member gets a voice in how the business is run. Services or goods provided by the co-op benefit and serve the member owners.
The International Co-Operative Alliance defines a cooperative, or co-op, as “an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled enterprise.” In other words, cooperatives are created by ...
Co-op is the short form for co-operative. Co-op (or Co-operative) housing is very popular in Sydney. Ian shops at a food co-op where he earns a membership dividend.
In this use, the word is often shortened to co-op.
1. A cooperative name must contain the word “cooperative”, “coop”, or the abbreviation “CP”.