What are Cooperatives? Cooperatives are a group of people that work together to provide a social, economic, or financial benefit for each other.
How are Cooperatives made? A cooperative is made by a group of people that have the same interests, goals, and beliefs for a good Cooperative.
What types of Cooperatives are there? There are Housing Cooperatives, Agricultural Cooperatives, and Utility Cooperative
Agricultural Cooperatives... are places that alot of farms send the food they have to a single area for money for themselves and their family. Here is a flow map of a usual agricultural cooperative. Go to Next Page to see the Flow Map
Housing Cooperatives... are a group of people that helps people get shelter. But once they do, the person that they helped will join their cooperative to help more people get homes for them and they will join! And so on...
I始m going to interview a person that始s in a housing cooperative. Q. What is your Q. Do you housing cooperative enjoy being name? Where is it? in the Q. What do you do in the cooperative? A. Silver State Home housing cooperative? Owner Association. A. I didn始t What have you done? It is in Denver, enjoy being Colorado in the A. You make decisions cooperative, and rules about what you it was like a own together. I was a job. board member of the cooperative.
Farms grow the food/fabric
Farmers harvest the food/fabric
A costumer in the store buys it
The factory gets the food/ fabric and produces something then box it. Or automatically box it.
Sends the package to a market or store
Farmers load the food/fabric to a truck and the truck delivers the food/fabric to the factory
The money gets divided, like in this graph
Utility Cooperatives... are a group of people that gives needs for a price. Like electricity, water, heat, and others. There is a meter that measures how much money you have to pay for the need, and now the meter can go reverse as well. Like in electricity you can get a solar panel and refund the electricity to the utility cooperative, and so your bill goes down. Here is a picture of a electricity meter. There are arrows on the meter showing what is what.
What are Cooperative始s Mission[s]? Cooperative始s mission[s] can vary. They usually get decided by members of the cooperative voting for it.