CDF News

In normal times the Association of Cooperative Educators' (ACE) annual summer institute convenes youth and cooperative educators to...

A $60,000 forgivable loan from the Cooperative Development Foundation to fund 60 senior housing units is seeding the development of 600...

CDF is accepting nominations for the 2020 Cooperative Hall of Fame! Nominate a cooperator who has proven: Statesmanship: Demonstrated...

Thanks to a grant from CDF's Howard Bowers Fund, Spanish speaking communities will have access in their native language to Food Co-op...

With nearly $1,200,000 in grantmaking and spending on programmatic work, an updated website, successful events, and increased...

The legacy of cooperative developer and Hall of Fame member Bill Gessner lives on with a grant to Cooperative Development Services to...

When the Howard Bowers Fund was established at the Cooperative Development Foundation in 1994, it had two objectives: support the...

Thanks to a grant from the CHS Foundation cooperators aged 18 to 35 and post-secondary students studying cooperatives will have a chance...

When the worker-owners at Isthmus Engineering & Manufacturing learned about the shortage of personal protective equipment for workers...

Donations to the Cooperative Development Foundation’s Disaster Recovery Fund are being put to work to help cooperatives and their...

The Nationwide Foundation, a private foundation supported by donations from Nationwide companies, showed its continued commitment to...

The University of Colorado's hospital system is anticipated to care for more than 50% of COVID-19 patients needing hospitalization in the...

Advocate – Effective defender of credit unions at the state and national level, credited with securing key Congressional support for...

The Cooperative Leaders and Scholars Institute (CLSI) is an opportunity for co-op employees, board members, or post-secondary students to...

Visionary – Recognizing the need for quality professional expertise, she founded a legal clinic to train a cadre of lawyers to advise...

Donations to the Cooperative Development Foundation’s Disaster Recovery Fund help cooperatives and their employees weather the impact of...

With support from the Cooperative Development Foundation's Cooperative Education Fund, Detroit Community Wealth Fund (DCWF) launched a...

Now that Women's History Month is over, CDF wants to draw attention to five female cooperators recognized during the month of March whose...

Advocate – Vocal champion of cooperatives before state and federal legislatures advocating on cooperative taxation, retail wheeling and...

The 40,000 cooperatives that flourished in the US in 1960 showed the potential of the model to meet the economic and social needs of...