their lives. Many organizations have taken the initiative to create opportunities for women with the goal to alleviate poverty. One strategy to alleviate poverty is through the promotion of employment to women. Two great examples of this are women cooperatives that were founded in Guatemala and Costa…
world would not be nearly as advanced and sophisticated. This engagement has always naturally been present in schools. Despite efforts to change competitive tendencies of schools, it is still present and proving better than cooperative learning in many areas. Competitive learning is the most beneficial for students because it encourages full…
What matters most to me is creating far-reaching, community-based opportunities. Achieving this would mean living a life that is meaningful and leaving behind an inspiration for other people to follow. More often than not, I have played the role of a social organizer, transferring and leveraging skills in my professional work-life to galvanize people and resources to build platforms where I believe more people in the community are able to benefit. While, I have come to believe in individual…
DuBois’s cooperative economic proposals were “the need for a communal, Black-focused solution that would emphasize and establish the following; social ownership, strong family and group ties, consumer unions, economic planning, socialized medicine, cooperative organization of Black professionals for social service, elimination of private profit, Black controlled educational system, and the essentiality of collective self-reliance” (Maulana, 2010), he coins this solution as ‘a cooperative…
By learning and using a supply chain-wide technology strategy that supports multiple levels of decision making and gives a clear view of the flow of products, services, and information, I was able to run reports on things such as order cut research and product…
The Four Stages of Business Growth Brian Weaver American Public University Businesses go through many different stages throughout their lifetime. Most importantly, businesses experience four stages of growth during their entire runs. Within the first stage of growth, “typically a business will have one owner who does everything from sales and bookkeeping to marketing and production” (McCubbrey, 2009). This is the very beginning when things are just getting started. In the second stage…
What Cooperatives Mean to My Community With all the political and social unrest of the past year, many people feel like they do not have a voice in their ever changing community, or they think they are not able to help the masses. However, by working with cooperatives society has a chance to positively impact its members in, helping, and caring for others. Cooperatives are owned and operated by the people of the community it serves, which allows the inhabitants of that community to have a…
Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union is the third oldest credit union in the United States, and second oldest in Massachusetts. Opening their doors in 1912, the credit union offered financial services to immigrants working in the textile Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. Over the years the company has grown exponentially, but has remained truthful to its original mission; “Helping members make smart financial choices”. This mission has been carried out via methods that are tried and true. Examples include,…
Wagner presented hypotheses influencing the cooperative behavior referenced through a variety of research studies. All of which came out be effective in the manifestation of high cooperation in an educational setting. For instance, the first hypotheses stated, “individual- collective behavior will influence…
Chuck, Yesterday Electrocon received a request from Jacob Lien of Ulteig for support in conjunction with work being done for Rochester Public Utilities. In reviewing your account, we believe there may be a violation of the CAPE license agreement occurring regarding the use of your CAPE license by a third-party. Your agreement does not allow your non-employee consultants to use CAPE outside your own premises. If Jacob is working at your office, there is no violation. If he is working outside…