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A housing co-operative is a legal entity that owns real estate, one or more residential buildings. ...
Building co-operatives are co-operative housing corporations where individuals or families work together to directly construct their own homes on a co-op basis. ...
A retailers cooperative or consumer cooperative is a business entity which employs economies of scale on behalf of its members to get discounts from manufacturers and to pool marketing. ...
A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity or telecommunications to its members. ...
A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and operated by its worker-owners. There are no outside, or consumer owners, in a workers cooperative - only the workers own shares of the business. ...
An Italian social cooperative is a particularly successful form of multi-stakeholder cooperative, of which some 7,000 exist. ...
Consumers Co-operation is a form of business that is oriented toward service rather than pecuniary profit. ...
A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) comprises a legal entity owned and democratically controlled by its members, with no passive shareholders. ...
A credit union is a not-for-profit co-operative financial institution that is owned and controlled by its members, through the election of a volunteer Board of Directors elected from the membership itself. ...
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A Co-operative Federation is a Co-operative society in which all members are, in turn, Co-operatives. ...
A Co-operative Union is Co-operative Federation (that is, a Co-operative in which all the members are Co-operatives). ...
A Co-operative Wholesale Society, or CWS, is a form of Co-operative Federation (that is, a Co-operative in which all the members are Co-operatives), in this case, the members are usually Consumers Co-operatives. ...
Mutual insurance is a type of insurance where those protected by the insurance (policyholders) also own the organization. ...
| | Rochdale Principles | | Voluntary and open membership
Democratic member control
Member economic participation
Autonomy and independence
Education, training, and information
Cooperation among cooperatives
Concern for community
The first of the Rochdale Principles states that Co-operative societies must have an open and voluntary membership. ...
Member economic participation is one of the defining features of [[Cooperatives|Co-operative Soceities], and constitutes the third Rochdale Principle in the ICAs Statement on the Co-operative Identity. ...
The purpose of Co-operative education and Co-operative studies, according to the ICAs Statement on the Co-operative Identity, is that Co-operative societies provide education and training for their members, elected representatives, managers, and employees so they can contribute effectively to the development of their co-operatives. ...
A Co-operative Federation is a Co-operative society in which all members are, in turn, Co-operatives. ...
| | Political and Economic Theories | | Cooperative federalism
Cooperative individualism
Owenism
Third way
Socialism
Socially responsible investing
Social enterprise Co-operative Federalism is a school of thought in the field of Co-operative economics. ...
Owenism is a term used to represent the Utopian socialist philosophy of Robert Owen, and deriviations thereof. ...
Third way can refer to: The Third Way, an economic and political idea that positions itself between democratic socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, combining the ordoliberal social market with neo-liberalism. ...
Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ...
The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ...
Social enterprises are organizations which trade in goods or services and link that trade to a social mission. ...
| | Key Theorists | | Robert Owen
William King
The Rochdale Pioneers
G.D.H. Cole
Charles Gide
Beatrice Webb
Friedrich Raiffeisen
David Griffiths
Robert Owen (May 14, 1771 – November 17, 1858) was a Welsh socialist and social reformer. ...
Dr. William King (1786-1865) was a British physician and philantropist from Brighton. ...
The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, founded in 1844, is usually considered the first successful co-operative enterprise, forming the basis for the modern co-operative movement. ...
George Douglas Howard Cole (September 25, 1889 - January 14, 1959) was an English journalist and economist, closely associated with the development of Fabianism. ...
Charles Gide (1847–1932) was a French economist and notable ideologue of the cooperative movement in the first third of the 20th century. ...
Beatrice Webb Martha Beatrice Potter Webb (January 2, 1858 - April 30, 1943) (also called Beatrice Webb) was a British socialist, economist and reformer, usually referred to in the same breath as her husband, Sidney Webb. ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (May 3, 1818, Hamm - May 11, 1888, Heddesdorf, currently known as Neuwied, Germany) was a German cooperative leader. ...
David Griffiths is a Co-operative economist, who has contributed a number of books and articles on the subject of unemployment,[1] the history of Victorias Co-operative movement,[2] and social care co-operatives[3] amongst other subjects. ...
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List of cooperative federations
International Co-operative Alliance
Co-operative Party List of co-operative enterprises: // Canada Accessible Technologies (Westmount, NS) [1] Baseline Type and Graphics (Vancouver, BC) [2] BeaDazzled Bead Shop (Guelph, ON) [3] The Big Carrot (Toronto, ON) [4] Calgary Alternative Transportation Co-operative [5] Canadian Travel Co-op (Burlington, ON. Regina, SK) CFRO-FM (Vancouver, BC) [6] Circle...
This is a list of Co-operative Federations. ...
The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) is a non-governmental association representing co-operatives and the co-operative movement worldwide. ...
This article is about the British political party. ...
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 The Entrance to the Cheese Board Collective, located on Shattuck Avenue The Cheese Board Collective in Berkeley, California, comprises two collectively owned and operated businesses: a cheese shop/bakery commonly referred to as "The Cheese Board," and a pizzeria known as "Cheese Board Pizza." The Cheese Board is located at 1504 Shattuck Ave and Cheese Board Pizza is located two doors down the street at 1512 Shattuck Ave in a neighborhood of Berkeley known as the Gourmet Ghetto for its high concentration of fine restaurants and food shops. Image File history File links Cheezebd. ...
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Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ...
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A note on the name: although townspeople, newspapers and even the Cheese Board website frequently spell the name of the business as a single word - "Cheeseboard" - the members of the collective chose to consistently refer to their business with two words in The Cheese Board: Collective Works, their cookbook/history published in 2003.
History
Founding and Collectivization The Cheese Board was founded as a privately owned cheese shop in 1967 by Elizabeth and Sahag Avedasian. In 1971, the owners and their six employees converted their business from a conventional privately owned firm to an egalitarian worker-owned collective by distributing shares in the business equally between themselves and their employees and equalizing the wages of all of the new worker/owners. The collective currently has about 30 members.
Bakery When founded, the shop primarily sold cheese, but by the early 1970s the Cheese Board began to experiment with baking bread. Bread was originally produced in small quantities as an informal, impromptu sideline. Although bread sales were initially minor they marked a shift from a purely mercantile business model of buying and selling cheese to a mixed model that combines on-site, artisanal hand-production with domestic and import retail. The sale of baked goods grew rapidly and now accounts for a significant portion of the store's business. As the sale of bakery products grew so did the variety of breads, pastries and other baked goods offered. The Cheese Board: Collective Works reports that "The varying bread schedule is complex enough that even the workers have difficulty remembering it."
Pizza In 1990, a second collective, Cheese Board Pizza, was formed to produce pizza (originally produced as an occasional lunch offering by the Cheese Board bakery) full time. The pizzeria has thrived since then and almost always has a line out the door during lunch and dinner. Cheese Board Pizza is unusual in that only one type of pizza (always vegetarian) is made each day and no substitutions are allowed. Because the same product is continually being produced, customers are always able to receive their pizza fresh from the oven without waiting. Once a new pizza is ready, any remaining slices from the previous pizza are cut in half and given away as extras with whole slices from the freshest pie. The Cheese Board staff tend to favor unconventional pizza toppings and use only fresh, seasonal produce. Despite the small size of the room - there are only two tables inside - the restaurant has a piano and reserves floor space for the small jazz groups that often perform during peak hours.
The Cheese Board and the "Gourmet Ghetto" The Cheese Board was one of the first gourmet establishments in north Berkeley (along with Peet's Coffee) and its success contributed greatly to the development of the area into the Gourmet Ghetto it has become. Alice Waters, the founder of Chez Panisse - one of the most famous restaurants in the United States - stated that she chose to locate her restaurant in North Berkeley "so the Cheese Board would be nearby, because I knew I would be among friends." Peets Coffee & Tea is a specialty coffee roaster and retailer. ...
Alice Louise Waters (born 28 April 1944 in Chatham, New Jersey) is a well-known American chef. ...
The front entrance to Chez Panisse on Berkeleys Shattuck Avenue Chez Panisse is a restaurant located in Berkeley, California, known as the first California cuisine restaurant, a style credited to restaurant founder Alice Waters. ...
References - The Cheese Board Collective website describes the history of the Cheese Board, lists the bakery offerings and provides directions to the shop.
- The Cheese Board Collective published The Cheese Board: Collective Works: Bread, Pastry, Cheese, Pizza that describes the history of the business and includes many recipes. The above quote from Alice Waters was taken from the foreword to this book.
- An article from the San Francisco Chronicle about the Cheese Board: Sweet Profits: Co-op bakeries raise the dough
External links - The official Cheeseboard website
- A review of The Cheeseboard Pizza Collective
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