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January 5, 2022 Four outstanding cooperative leaders will receive the cooperative community’s most prestigious honor on October 6, 2022,...

John Holdsclaw IV, Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, National Cooperative Bank, joined the Cooperative Development...

Colmenar Cooperative Consulting LLC, a bilingual (Spanish/English) worker cooperative that offers education and resources for the...

CDF was awarded two grants from USDA to support the Foundation's work coordinating the Home Care Cooperative Initiative. The grants also...

The North Dakota State University Foundation was awarded a $250,000 multi-year grant from the CDF administered CoBank Donor Advised Fund...

Supported by contributions of over $340,000 from more than 450 donors, and nearly $500,000 in programmatic funding, CDF in 2021 expanded...

CDF celebrated the hard work and commitment of 25 caregivers from worker-owned cooperatives for National Caregiver Month. These...

Cooperative champion and 2012 Hall of Fame Inductee Chuck Snyder died Saturday, November 6 from an aortic aneurysm.  Since 1992, Chuck...

The cooperative community’s continued support of the Cooperative Development Foundation has allowed us to make grants, loans, and...

The recently released Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Trends in the Cooperative Community report provides a look at how cooperatives...

Julia Selig joined the staff of the Cooperative Development Foundation as Communications and Operations Associate in November. Julia,...

Clark Arrington, Senior Fellow at Seed Commons; Vern Dosch, retired National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) President and CEO;...

Learn more about the lives and careers of the 2021 Cooperative Hall of Fame inductees on previously taped episodes of Everything Co-op...

The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives released the results of its multi- year research and outreach project, Collective...

California Cooperatives: Today’s Landscape of Worker, Housing and Childcare Cooperatives, authored by Hilary Abell, E. Kim Coontz, and...

FCI Live Food Co-op Initiative's FCI Live, is a free, three week series of live video events that connects cooperative leaders and start...

Food cooperatives looking for support to fund board and staff training are encouraged to apply for funding from CDF's Cooperative...

Home care cooperatives pay their caregivers more and have a significantly lower turnover rate than their non-cooperative competitors...

The 2021 Cooperative Hall of Fame inductees will reveal the untold, behind-the-scenes stories of their lives and careers in cooperatives....

Meet 2021 Inductees on Heroes.coop With less than a month away from the 2021 Cooperative Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, the Cooperative...