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The National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International (카지노 사이트) is the primary voice in the United States for people who use cooperatives to build a better world.

Mission:

Our mission is to develop, advance and protect cooperative enterprise.

Vision Statement:

카지노 사이트 works to build a better world and a more inclusive economy that empowers people to contribute to shared prosperity and well-being for themselves and future generations. By leveraging the shared resources of the cooperative movement, we seek to engage, partner with and empower people from all walks of life—particularly those left behind by a shifting economy and facing the greatest economic and societal barriers. We achieve this vision through collaborative partnerships in development, advocacy, public awareness and thought leadership.

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our history

More than a century of building an inclusive economy

1916

The Cooperative League of America is formally organized, the precursor organization to 카지노 사이트.

1921

The League forms a legal department and successfully lobbies for the passage of a cooperative federation statute in New York, then incorporates as the Cooperative League of the United States of America (CLUSA).

1935

9 out of 10 rural homes are without electric service. President Roosevelt established the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) to electrify rural America through the use of rural electric co-ops.

1944

CLUSA joins with other cooperative leaders to launch a public education campaign to defend the tax treatment of cooperatives in Congress.

The is formed, initially as the Freedom Fund of CLUSA, to help provide war relief through the development of cooperatives and other self-help initiatives in Europe. The first grant ($30,000) helps to launch Cooperative of American Remittances to Europe (CARE).

1953

The international arm of CLUSA is launched in response to a request from the Indian Cooperative Union. Through its first overseas office in New Delhi, CLUSA helped develop and strengthen dairy, fertilizer, farm machinery and other co-ops in the country.

1967

Working in southeastern U.S., CLUSA takes on a pilot project as part of the War on Poverty that leads to the formation of the .

1974

The is established. Inductees receive the cooperative community’s highest honor.

1985

CLUSA changes its name to the National Cooperative Business Association (카지노 사이트 뱅크카지노).

1986

The “CLUSA approach” to sustainable cooperative development is developed in Niger in the mid-1980s. The method is characterized by local decision-making and empowerment, and was developed by 카지노 사이트 veteran innovator Papa Sene.

1994

Cooperativa Café Timor is established with support from 카지노 사이트. Today, 카지노 사이트 추천 offers its 22,000 member-owners access to global markets—including Starbucks—better prices and healthcare through its network of health clinics.

2000

카지노 사이트 proposes and sponsors the .coop Top Level Domain. Many cooperatives and similar trade groups around the world, including the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), backed the proposal. The technical infrastructure for the .coop TLD was developed by the worker cooperative Poptel in the United Kingdom and became operational on January 30, 2002.

2010

카지노 사이트’s flagship Feed the Future project Yaajeende is launched in Senegal, based on a comprehensive approach built on the four pillars of food security—availability, access, utilization and governance.

2014

카지노 사이트 leads fight to successfully restore RCDG funding for co-ops. Credit union membership in the U.S. tops 100 million in June.

2015

카지노 사이트 receives its first grant from the Starbucks Foundation in April to support the livelihoods of coffee farmers in Indonesia.

The first meeting of the Interagency Working Group on Cooperative Development is held in October, a provision 카지노 사이트 worked hard to ensure the inclusion of in the Farm Bill.

카지노 사이트 works with legislators to create the long-awaited bipartisan Congressional Cooperative Business Caucus in December, co-chaired by Rep Ed Royce (R-CA) and Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI).