The Cooperative Foundation Awards $26,500 in Education and Development Grants
The Cooperative Foundation funded five cooperative education and development grants totaling $26,500 during the spring meeting of the foundation’s trustees.  The Cooperative Communicators Association, Cooperative Development Foundation, North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO), Ralph K. Morris Foundation, and US Workers Cooperative Federation received funding for their projects.

    Cooperative Communicators Association was awarded $3000 to fund the fellowships and grants program that provides support for students and CCA members to attend the organization’s annual Institute.

 

    Cooperative Development Foundation received a grant of $5000 to support Research on the Economic Impact of Cooperatives, a research project being conducted by the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Madison.

    NASCO received $4500 in support of the Emerging Cooperative Leaders program.  The program brings together emerging leaders from all cooperative sectors for cooperative and leadership training.

 

    Ralph K. Morris Foundation was granted     $7500 to the Foundation’s scholarship fund.  In 2009 The Cooperative Foundation will stop providing scholarship support directly to individual grantees and instead support cooperative education scholarships through support of the Morris Foundation scholarship fund.

    US Workers Cooperative Federation was awarded $6500 to support cooperative education speakers at its biannual institute in New Orleans and development of a technical assistance network for worker cooperatives developers.