promote cooperatives:
CFNE, NCBA, NCB,
NASCO, USDA Rural
Development
supportive. They may be sources of
funding, advice, expertise,
dissemination, and information
gathering from their membership.
Also, I am hoping that this project
would eventually lead to incentives to
create new, small cooperatives and I
would count on these organizations to
help create and support coop-
development materials.
much better with their support,
but could possibly take place
without it.
representing these
organizations and ask them
what is the best way to engage
the organizations and enlist
their support.
cooperatives and their
affiliated members
(ECWD, CGANE, state
RDCs, NECC, ARCH,
FNYHC, NAHC, CHC,
state CULs, NEPPA, &
NYSRECA.
representing the interests of their
membership. Some of them were also
originally part of the movement to
create Coop Life, so are already
interested in inter-coop cooperation.
They can provide expertise, advice,
dissemination to and information
gathering from their membership, and
generally help shape the program into
something beneficial to their
membership and in line with their
missions.
helpful to have as many of these
organizations on board as
possible, but realistically they
are not all going to have the
capacity or the interest to be
involved, and the project can
probably survive without the
participation of all of them.
representing these
organizations and ask them
what is the best way to engage
the organizations and enlist
their support.