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Good Practices

Producer Organizations Best Practices
By Land O'Lakes
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Cooperative Development Stages
By Land O'Lakes, Uganda
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Success Story of the Polish Credit Union Movement: How to Reach 1 million Members in 12 Years
by Grzegorz Bierecki, National Association of Cooperatives and Credit Unions
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The Circle of Responsibilities for Co-op Boards Management Tip Series By James Baarda, Februray 2003
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Successful Models in Cooperative Development in East and Central Europe
Report of the COPAC Open Forum: Berlin, 1999 (PDF Format)
http://www.copacgva.org/berlin.pdf

Factors in Co-op Success
A list of reasons why co-ops succeed and fail.
http://www.ncba.coop/abcoop_ab_success.cfm

Guidlines for Co-op Success
Guidelines for new co-ops with what to do and what to avoid.
http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/manual/chap_9.html

What We Can Learn from Other Co-ops' Mistakes
http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/info/coopdev/learn_others.html

Savings Best Practices
by World Council of Credit Unions
http://www.woccu.org/development/msb/msb.php

For Argentines A Sweet Resolve: Cooperatives Step in When Factories Fail
By Jon Jeter, Washington Post Foreign Service. February 24th, 2003.
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WORLD COUNCIL OF CREDIT UNION TOOLKIT SERIES Number 4 PEARLS MONITORING SYSTEM
by: David C. Richardson World Council of Credit Unions
Many different financial ratios and “rules of thumb” have been promoted for financial institutions worldwide, but few have been consolidated into an evaluation program that is capable of measuring both the individual components and the system as a whole. Since 1990, the World Council of Credit Unions, Inc. has been using a set of financial ratios known as “PEARLS.” Each letter of the word PEARLS measures key areas of CU operations: Protection, Effective financial structure, Asset quality, Rates of return and cost, Liquidity and Signs of growth.
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Best Practices in International Cooperative Development
Conference explored impact on community, governance and local ownership, and sustainability. By CCA, DID, and SOCODEVI.
Click here to view the presentations in French or English.

Tool for Social Audits
This 131-page Social Audit Manual is a step-by-step tool for evaluating the broader impact of business decisions to people and communities. It allows cooperatives to analyze how they follow cooperative principles and how to use these principles in improving their social impact.

Produced by the Canadian Co-operative Association and NATTCO Network - Visayas (VICTO).
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