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All organizations, including religious and community
groups, that operate businesses that offer goods or services to their members
according to cooperative principles (surplus returned to members based on use of
the co-op, democratic control, member ownership and control, voluntary membership,
etc.) Using your example: A religious institution that raises revenue and spends
it in support of programs and other efforts that directly or indirectly benefits
its congregation is probably not a co-op. But a religious institution that
operates a business -- i.e., child care, housing, financial services -- for use by
its members, that adheres to co-op principles, could certainly be a cooperative.
Jeannine Kenney
Director of Communications
NCBA
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