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1933 Wisconsin milk strike

The cooperative milk pool attempted to coordinate their efforts with larger farm groups, specifically the National Farm Holiday Association and Wisconsin Farmers' Holiday Association.

Albert Frederick Mutti

From there he moved to Savannah becoming the Founding Pastor of the Crossroads Ecumenical Cooperative Parish.

Alfalfa House

Alfalfa House Community Food Cooperative Ltd is a not-for-profit food cooperative based in Enmore, Sydney, Australia.

Australo-Papuan babbler

This is similar to the cooperative breeding system used by the fish species Neolamprologus pulcher with the difference being that N. pulcher are polygynous instead of monogamous.

Bruce Gilchrist

Having moved to Chappaqua, New York in 1959, he continued to be active in civic affairs, holding various positions, such as being on the Chappaqua School Board, and the Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services, among others.

C. K. Janu

Since then the movement has been in the news less and has concentrated on occupying land at Aralam farm, a huge cooperative farm that the government had promised to distribute amongst landless adivasis.

Ceres Connection

The Ceres Connection is a cooperative program between MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the Society for Science and the Public dedicated to promoting science education.

Chris Eatough

He currently rides for the Trek Racing Cooperative Team, formerly the Trek VW team with Jeremiah Bishop, Travis Brown, Sue Haywood, Lea Davison and Ross Schnell.

Comilla Model

In the early years of BRAC (NGO) and Grameen Bank in the 1970s, both Dr. Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Hasan Abed tested cooperative approaches to delivering credit to poor people.

Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies

The Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) is a research institute of the University of Miami located in the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS).

Cooperative Music

Through their partner labels Cooperative music work with artists like Phoenix, Bloc Party, The Knife, Fleet Foxes, iamamiwhoami, Citizens!, Interpol, The Black Keys and Mumford & Sons.

Cooperative Wheat Pool of Western Australia

Cooperative Wheat Pool of Western Australia, commonly known as the Wheat Pool of Western Australia, is a cooperative of wheat growers in Western Australia.

Current Gallery

The cooperative has played host to multiple up-and-coming indie rock performers, such as Beach House and Dan Deacon.

Dairylea

Dairylea Cooperative Inc. a large, regional milk cooperative located in Syracuse NY, USA.

David C. Johnson

In the early 1970s, Johnson joined the Oeldorf Group, a musicians' cooperative, with Peter Eötvös, Mesías Maiguashca, Gaby Schumacher (cello) and Joachim Krist (viola), who organized a Summer Night Music series.

Economic history of Somalia

In Galole near Hargeysa, for example, a government team established a cooperative in 1973, and government funds helped purchase a tractor, a cooperative center, and a grain storage tank.

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery

Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery is a producer of cheese curds located in Ellsworth, Wisconsin.

Foreign policy of the Hugo Chávez government

Exemplars of this prioritization have come in the cooperative multinational institutions Chávez helped found: PetroCaribe, Petrosur, and Telesur.

Henri Zisly

In 1902, he was one of the main initiators, alongside Georges Butaud and Sophie Zaïkowska, of the cooperative Colonie de Vaux established in Essômes-sur-Marne, in l'Aisne.

Henry Masauko Blasius Chipembere

She also served in the Ministry of Culture and Education before retiring to Mangochi, where she works with AIDS orphans and a women's knitting cooperative.

Interhelpo

The Interhelpo was an industrial cooperative of workers and farmers (esperantists and idists) between 1923 and 1943, established for the special purpose of helping to build up socialism in Soviet Kyrgyzstan.

Legacoop

The Federazione Nazionale delle Cooperative was founded in 1886 in Milan by delegates representing cooperative enterprises.

Leland Olds

In 1930/’31 he served as the “manager” of the American lecture tour of the famed Irish poet and cooperative propagandist Æ (George Russell).

Lhakar

Another case of non violent and non cooperative action happened in Markham (in eastern Tibet), where Tibetans consider to have won an unprecedented victory in their fight for civil rights.

Mennonite Quarterly Review

Published continuously since its conception in 1927 by Harold S. Bender and the Mennonite Historical Society, the journal is now a cooperative publication along with Goshen College and the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary.

Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary

The sanctuary was formed in the early 1990s as a cooperative project between the people of the surrounding Mwaluganje community, United States Agency for International Development, and the Born Free Foundation and the Eden Wildlife Trust.

Northwestern Bell

In 1976, Northwestern Bell sold access lines in the Midland, Philip, Martin, White River, Milesville, and Hayes exchanges to Golden West Telephone, a small telephone cooperative in South Dakota.

Nuhu Ribadu

Ribadu’s achievements in the EFCC included the de-listing of Nigeria from the FATF List of Non-Cooperative Countries & Territories, admission into the prestigious Egmont Group and the withdrawal of the US Treasury FINCEN Advisory on Nigeria.

OCBC

Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative, a medical marijuana cooperative based in Oakland, California

Oyster River Cooperative School District

Oyster River Cooperative School District (ORCSD) is a public school district in Durham, New Hampshire, United States, serving the towns of Durham, Lee, and Madbury, Durham is home to the main campus of the University of New Hampshire.

Penn South

The 10-building 2,820-unit complex was built in 1962, and was sponsored by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union based on the cooperative model promoted by the United Housing Foundation.

Production for use

Cooperative economist Jaroslav Vanek suggests that worker self-management and cooperative ownership of enterprises operating in a free-market would allow for a genuine free-market economy free of the market-distorting, monopolistic tendencies and antagonistic interests that emerge from private ownership over production.

Project Management Institute

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Prudence Bushnell

At the time of the bombing, Bushnell was attending a meeting with the Kenyan Trade Minister, Joseph J.Kamotho in the Cooperative Bank Building next to the embassy.

Rockingham County Botanical Garden

Currently the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in Rockingham County are working with schools to create youth gardens.

San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex

In the mid-1990s, the system was expanded to protect larger areas of coastal and inland open space under the Multiple Species Conservation Program, a cooperative project involving city, state, and federal authorities.

Shivajirao Girdhar Patil

In 1981, he helped in starting of the cooperative sugar factory "Shirpur Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana" in Shirpur, Dhule district.

Social entrepreneurship

A list of a few historically noteworthy people whose work exemplifies classic "social entrepreneurship" might include Florence Nightingale, founder of the first nursing school and developer of modern nursing practices; Robert Owen, founder of the cooperative movement; and Vinoba Bhave, founder of India's Land Gift Movement.

Stefan Inglot

Stefan Inglot (b. March 10, 1902 in Albigowa near Łańcut - January 11, 1994 in Wrocław, Poland) was a Polish historian and a cooperative activist.

Taxation of cooperative corporations in the United States

The taxation of cooperative corporations in the United States is subject to special rules under subchapter T of the Internal Revenue Code, different from both subchapter C and subchapter S corporations.

Tennis Channel

On September 4, 2011 during the US Open, the Tennis Channel pulled its signal from Verizon FiOS, Cablevision, Suddenlink Communications, Mediacom, WOW!, Knology and GCI after the providers declined to accept a new agreement that the Tennis Channel made with the National Cable Television Cooperative of which they are members.

Toques et Clochers

Toques et Clochers is an annual gastronomy festival in Aude, France sponsored by the Sieur d'Arques wine cooperative.

Universal Cooperatives

Universal Cooperatives, based in Eagan, Minnesota, is a cooperative controlled by 17 regional agricultural marketing and agricultural supply cooperatives.

Valentyn Rechmedin

After studies at Uman Cooperative Technicum (Уманський кооперативний технікум) he started his career as a journalist in 1934 at Molodyi Bilshovyk (Молодий Бiльшовик) in Vinnytsia.

Vermont Creamery

Cows' milk is sourced from the St. Albans Cooperative Creamery in St. Albans, Vermont, while goats' milk is sourced from approximately 20 Vermont farms and and Hewitt's Dairy in Hagersville, Ontario, Canada.

William Adams Delano

In 1922, Delano designed the interiors of the Grand Central Art Galleries, an artists' cooperative established that year by John Singer Sargent, Edmund Greacen, Walter Leighton Clark, and others.

WNED-TV

The transmitters and towers belonged to the Chautauqua Board of Cooperative Educational Services, the experimental Appalachian Television Project, and Cattaraugus Area Television System (CATS) group and were scattered across numerous small towns in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties.


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