Maria, I know of one such cooperative, and that is the Cooperative Development Services cooperative which is a collective of training consultants which operate as a coooperative and they primarily provide educational services for cooperatives. There is a contact email there, to which they respond fairly quickly in my experience. Use this general url http://www.cdsus.coop/ and the contact us page is here http://www.cdsus.coop/about/contact The ACEnet group in Athens, Ohio is fairly central among the practitioners of small business incubation in economically underdeveloped areas. Much of their practice is about education and facilitation among their various clients, alumni, and the public. http://www.acenetworks.org/ This is not as good a fit to your situation, and they also manage major assets and programs in their region at this point. Tadit On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:26:10 -0400, Maria Droujkova <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
There are cooperatives I am aware of that use the LLC form to support a cooperative process. Think in terms of an educational cooperative, which allows the association to levy fees for services and for membership, and to shift credits and member "capital" within the association.
Thank you! LLC is what we are currently registering... Do you know of any educational cooperatives I can look at? The only models I know are family educator coops (I wrote about them for the p2p blog http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/family-educator-commons/2010/08/09) - but they don't generate income for their founders.
It is has an economy by organizing within a different format and "math.".
What sort of math? I am not sure I understand this part of it.