Cooperatives
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Definitions and Scope
Target Community Asset: Cooperatives
"Cooperatives, owned by members, are not driven to make big profits for shareholders but to create the best value for its members and customers. Ownership is shared and decisions are made democratically" Dolly Goh, CEO of SNCF (ST 20 Jul 2015)
Types of Cooperatives
Consumer Cooperatives
Producer Cooperatives
Worker Cooperatives
Sanjay Perera, editor of Philosophers For Change, an online journal on alternative socioeconomic paradigms wrote an op-ed on Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises (ST 14 Feb 2015)
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Resource Directory
Singapore National Co-operative Federation
NTUC Cooperatives
NTUC Fairprice - groceries
NTUC Income - insurance
NTUC First Campus - preschools
NUS Coop
Set up in 1969 by Student Liaison Officer because of the escalating prices of books and capital raised though selling membership shares to staff and students.