Fellow Cooperators,
For nearly a year, cooperative business owners and developers have been working to develop awonderful piece of legislation that will support the growth of cooperative businesses in underserved communities throughout the country. For months, many of you have been hearing about this, but recently we’ve been particularly quiet. That’s because we’ve been hard at work, behind the scenes, preparing to grow our campaign to fully support the legislation when it is introduced.
I’m happy to announce today that our campaign has a home!
http://campaign.coop
our campaign has a name!
Campaign for Cooperation
and our legislation has a name!
National Cooperative Development Act of 2011
We need your support. We could spend our days calling the offices of al Members of Congress, telling them about this terrific piece of legislation, but it wouldn’t be very effective. Members of Congress are not interested in hearing what people outside their districts think they should support. They want to hear from their constituents, which is YOU!
The Campaign for Cooperation will work with you and help you spread the word about the National Cooperative Development Act, and to help you talk to your Representatives about how wonderful co-ops are, and how this legislation will benefit their constituents.
We expect Rep. Fattah to introduce the National Cooperative Development Act this Fall, and the cooperative community needs to be ready to support it from day 1. We will let you know as soon as the legislation is available. While we wait for its introduction, there are a couple things you can do to help.
– Share campaign.coop with your community of co-op supporters
– Contribute to the campaign at our website (any amount helps!) – this helps us spread the word about the legislation throughout the country.
– Meet with your Member of Congress or their staff to talk to them about your co-ops, and that theNational Cooperative Development Act is coming soon, and you want them to be a co-sponsor.
You can read an interview with Rep. Fattah about the National Cooperative Development Act HERE
Thank you for your continued support!
Peter Frank
Advocacy Coordinator – Campaign for Cooperation
info@campaign.coop
215-680-9195
