[P2P-F] A better franchise in education?

Sun Oct 23 17:57:45 CEST 2011

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 <droujkova at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:00 AM, <ideasinc at ee.net> 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.