Next week is Co-op Week in Canada which is uniquely a Canadian
phenomenon. In the United States, October is Co-op Month, and the InternationalCo-operative Alliance and United Nations have an International Day of
Co-operatives on the first Saturday in July.
Internationally, good things are happening to strengthen the co-op identity worldwide. Shortly after the United Nations named 2012 as the International Year of Co-operatives, the International Co-operative
Alliance developed a new logo for all co-operatives to use and align with a universal brand that differentiates co-ops from other forms of business.
The Co-operative marque or logo is now a universal symbol for the global co-op
movement and its collective identity.
At the same time, the General Assembly for the International Co-operative Alliance approved a new go-forward plan outlined in the "Blueprintfor a Co-operative Decade" created to drive forward the beginnings of a world-wide campaign
to take the co-operative way of doing business to the next level.
The ambitious plan in this Blueprint - the “2020 Vision” - is
for the co-operative form of business by 2020 to become:
- The acknowledged leader in economic, social and environmental sustainability,
- the mode preferred by people,
- and last but not least, the fastest form of enterprise.
To read more about this global initiative, visit www.ica.coop
To obtain the universal co-op logo, contact me at: jajohnson@growmark.com or visit www.ica.coop
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