THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY

2019’s Theme: Power in Purpose

Our 2019 Request for Proposals season is open! Submit a session to the 2019 Co-op IMPACT Conference.

“Nowhere but NCBA [CLUSA] and IMPACT Conference do you get to make those cross-sectoral connections with people about how to live out that P6 cooperation among cooperatives principle and work together to make this co-op economy really grow and thrive and get to scale.”

— Camille Kerr, The ICA Group

Approach Highlight

LAST YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS

IMPACT 2017 provides unprecedented opportunity to advance shared interests of co-op ecosystem
New “State of the Co-op Economy” report counts 40,000 co-ops in U.S.
From local food systems to innovation, Legislative Breakfast elevates co-ops in public policy discussions

How U.S. cooperatives impact global development
In push for sustainable economic development, co-ops are “engines of equity”
How co-op financers leverage resources to maximize community impact

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