At last month’s Co-op Fair, we met Emily Nail from the NC Cooperative Council. She was passing out buttons and furthering the group’s mission: “to bring the state’s cooperatives together to connect, educate, and promote the success of all cooperatives.”
The Co-op Council formed in 1935, shortly after the Depression, to assist rural citizens and farmers and to do so with the beneficial cooperative structure. The council has been involved in activities such as running a Cooperative Youth Camp (which we send a student to each year), working with NC State University and the state and federal Departments of Agriculture, and forming the NC Milk Producers Federation in 1942. The council connects its members with each other across the state and with national partner organizations. Members include all kinds of co-ops: electric and telephone companies, credit unions, ag associations, and retail co-ops (like us!).
Read more about the NC Co-op Council on their website, http://www.ccnc.coop/. If you missed the Co-op Fair, you can watch videos and read about it with our interactive map, on our blog.
