Co-Op Federation
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, coöperative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise". Cooperatives are democratically controlled by their members, with each member having one vote in electing the board of directors. They differ from collectives in that they are generally built from the bottom-up, rather than the top-down. Cooperatives may include: * Worker cooperatives: businesses owned and managed by the people who work there * Consumer cooperatives: businesses owned and managed by the people who consume goods and/or services provided by the cooperative * Producer cooperatives: businesses where producers pool their output for their common benefit ** e.g. Agricultural cooperatives * Purchasing cooperatives where members pool their purchasing power * Multi-stakeholder or hybrid cooperatives tha ...
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OSG Co-op AGM 20050423
OSG may refer to: * Office of the Solicitor General of the Philippines * Office of the Solicitor General of the United States * Office of the Surgeon General of the United States * Oklahoma State Guard, active during World War II * On-site generation of electrical power * One Scotland Gazetteer, the definitive national land, property and address dataset for Scotland * Open Science Grid, a worldwide collection of technological resources * OpenSceneGraph, a 3D graphics programming interface * Operational Studies Group, a publisher of wargames related primarily to the Napoleonic Wars * Overseas Shipholding Group {{disambiguation ...
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