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Wireless Nomad was a non-profit cooperative based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada providing subscriber-owned home and business internet along with free Wi-Fi wireless Internet access the 70+ nodes, making it one of the largest free Wi-Fi networks in the country at the time.
The co-operative model has a long history in the U.S., including a factory in the 1790s, the Knights of Labor, and the Grange. [17] In Colorado, the Meadowlark cooperative administered the only private free land program in the United States, providing many services to its members who buy and sell together.
There are generally five major types of cooperative organizations: Consumers' cooperatives, in which the consumers of a co-operative's goods and services are defined as its members (including retail food co-operatives and grocery stores, credit unions, mutual insurance companies, etc.) (Example: REI, federal credit unions, etc.)
At the outset, the Pioneers had a clear set of objects, as set out in "Law the First" of its rules: The objects and plans of the Society are to form arrangements for the pecuniary benefit, and improvement of the social and domestic condition of its members, by raising a sufficient amount of capital in shares of £1 each, to bring into operation the following plans and arrangements:
The Danish cooperative movement (Danish: Andelsbevægelsen) was a cooperative movement with profound influence on the economic, organizational and industrial development of Denmark from the 1790s. The movement originally emerged in rural communities and was used widely in farming and the industrial development of the agricultural industry.
The best historical examples of this are the English CWS and the Scottish SCWS, which are the predecessors of the 21st century Co-operative Group. Indeed, in Britain, the terms Co-operative Wholesale Society and CWS are used to refer to this specific organisation rather than the organisational form.
National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) (formerly the Cooperative League of America) National Co+op Grocers (NCG) National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC) Northern States Co-operative League (NSCL, established 1921) Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance (PACA)
The merger took two years to complete and the launch of the newly combined business, named The Co-operative Group, was timed with the release of the 2001 Co-operative Commission report, chaired by John Monks, which proposed a strategy of modernisation which focused on improving store design and building a consistent branding whilst also driving ...