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=Considering the cooperative form of ownership=


==From Merriam-Webster dictionary.com==

co·op·er·a·tive   Pronunciation Key  (k-pr--tv, --rtv, -pr-)
adj. Done in cooperation with others: a cooperative effort. 

Marked by willingness to cooperate; compliant: a cooperative patient. 

Of, relating to, or formed as an enterprise or organization jointly owned
or managed by those who use its facilities or services: a cooperative
department store; cooperative apartment buildings. 

n. 
An enterprise or organization that is owned or managed jointly by those who
use its facilities or services.

co·oper·a·tive·ly adv. 
co·oper·a·tive·ness n. 

\Co*["o]p"er*a*tive\, a. Operating jointly to the same end. 

Co[\"o]perative society, a society established on the principle of a
joint-stock association, for the production of commodities, or their
purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending
of capital among its members. 

Co[\"o]perative store, a store established by a co["o]perative society,
where the members make their purchases and share in the profits or losses. 
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. 


==Home page of International Cooperative Information Center==
(University of Wisconsin) 
UWCC
230 Taylor Hall, 427 Lorch Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-3981 Fax:(608) 262-3251
Email: grinnell@aae.wisc.edu 
http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/icic/def-hist/def/community.html
LIBRARY: 608-262-9988

The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives (UWCC) was established
in 1962 as the International Cooperative Training Center. Funds to
establish the UWCC were provided by a grant from USAID. Although
international cooperative education remains a responsibility of UWCC, our
programs now touch all types of domestic cooperatives. 


The UWCC is housed within the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and
the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension, Madison, Wisconsin.


==CAlling the Hyde Park (Chicago neighborhood) Cooperative Society==

Julius Draznin, former board member 
of Hyde Park Cooperative Society, 
773-684-0895 
Atty Leon Depres: try him too. 

==Government publication on how to start a cooperative== 
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/cir7/cir7.pdf


==News coop -- The Associated Press==

Founded in 1848 by six New York newspapers to cut costs and get the news
more efficiently and quickly. It is owned by its U.S. newspaper and
broadcast members and serves more than 1,700 newspapers and 6,000 TV and
radio stations in the U.S. 

==Home page of the International Cooperative Alliance==
http://www.ica.coop/al-ica/=


==Rural Nebraska farmer-coop owned radio station KRVN==
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/may01/allag.htm


==Cooperatively owned newspaper in Greenbeld, Md.==

Greenbelt News Review
15 Crescent Road, Suite 100
Greenbelt, MD 20770
Tel: (301) 474-4131
http://www.greenbelt.com/newsreview/

The Greenbelt News Review is a community newspaper which is coooperatively
owned. It was established in 1937 by the residents of the "Green Town" one
month after they moved to the new town. The paper is owned by the
reporters, editors, and other staff who put out the community's news on a
weekly basis. The president emeritus, Elaine Skolnik, received the Co-op
Month communications award this year for her work on the paper. In addition
to spreading the word about Greenbelt's many cooperatives, she was a
central figure in a lawsuit against the News Review which went all the way
to the U.S. Supreme Court and helped establish Freedom of the Press. 


The paper, published by the Greenbelt Co-operative Publishing Association
Inc., was established in 1937 as a volunteer organization shortly after the
construction of Greenbelt, one of The New Deal green towns. It has been
published without interruption since that time and is currently delivered
free to all Greenbelt residents.  Our office is in the Community Center
next to the City Office.

==Home page of the National Cooperative Business Association==
http://ncba.coop/ 

NCBA
1401 New York Ave. NW
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
Ph: (202) 638-6222
Fx: (202) 638-1374
E-mail: ncba@ncba.coop
Paul Hazen
President and CEO 

From the NCBA site: 

Cooperatives may be organized to provide just about any good or service
such as: 

*Business services 
*Child care 
*Credit and personal financial services 
*Employment 
*Equipment, hardware and farm supplies 
*Utilities and cable T.V. services 
*Food and food services 
*Funeral planning 
*Health care 
*Housing 
*Insurance 
*Legal and professional services 
*Marketing of agricultural and other products 
 
Over 120 million people are members of 48,000 U.S. cooperatives. These
people have organized to provide themselves with goods and services in
nearly every sector of our economy. Their cooperatives may be organized in
a number of ways and for many purposes. 

==Selected legal issues==

*Formation, voting rights and governance 
*Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and securities 
*Antitrust/Capper-Volstead Act 
*Tax issues 
*Financing 
*Labor, employment and employee benefits 
*Environmental, land use, and permits 
*Litigation 
*International and trade regulations 
*Intellectual property and licensing 
*FCC, telecommunications regulation

==Minneapolis attorney specialist in agriculture cooperatives==

http://www.lindquist.com/
Michael L. Weaver
Direct Dial: (612) 371-3987
Fax: (612) 371-3207
E-mail: mweaver@lindquist.com
Service group: [http://www.lindquist.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={79945FCA-CC73-47E0-B4AA-CFE5557D6517} Agribusiness and Cooperatives]

Michael Weaver provides general business representation to farmer-owned
associations on start-up, capital structure, debt and equity financing,
governance, mergers and consolidations, acquisitions and joint ventures.
He specializes in cooperative law and choice of entity matters. He helps
his clients achieve their business objectives with extensive experience in: partnership, limited-liability companies and tax and security law. He is a frequent presenter on agribusiness and cooperative law
topics. Michael heads up the agribusiness and cooperatives’ ethanol industry
specialty.