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ARTICLES

Connie Bruck, “A Reporter at Large: Millions for Millions,” The New Yorker, October 30, 2006.
article-bruck.pdf (76KB)

Co-op America, Investing for the World, Washington, DC: Co-op America, Fall 2005.
article-coop-america-fall05.pdf (520KB)

David Herrera, “Mondragon: a for-profit organization that embodies Catholic social thought,” Review of Business, vol 25, no 1, Winter 2004, pp. 56-68.
article-herrera.pdf (130KB)

Nicholas Kulish, "In Germany, a City's Famed Industry Now Helps Keep It Afloat," The New York Times, August 4, 2008.
article-kulish.pdf (70KB)

Jean-Louis Laville, “A New European Economic Perspective,” The Association for Social Economics, Review of Social Economy, Vol. LXI, No. 3, September 2003.
article-laville.pdf (150KB)

John Logue, Economics, Cooperation, and Employee Ownership: The Emilia Romagna model – in more detail, Kent, Ohio: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, 2006.
article-logue.pdf (1.6MB)

Margaret Lund, “Italy’s Co-ops Draw Strong Public Support,” Cooperative Grocer Online, #91. November-December 2000.
www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=295

Wilda Vanek, “Italian Social Cooperatives,” Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter, 2001.
www.geo.coop/archives/vanek.htm

Tom Webb, “Canada’s Co-op Atlantic: Showing the Way to Co-operation Among Cooperatives,” Cooperative Grocer Online, #108. Sept.-Oct. 2003.
www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=472

Marilyn Wentz. “Learning from the Italians,” Rocky Mountain Farmers Union. December 31, 2002.
www.rmfu.org/2002/12/31/learning-from-the-italians

Muhammad Yunus, “Does the Capitalist System Have to be a Handmaiden of the Rich?” June 1994, excerpts from Keynote Address:
www.gdrc.org/icm/grameen-keynote.html

Karen Zimbelman. “The Potential of a Cooperative System: A Visit to Co-op Atlantic,” Cooperative Grocer Online, #50. Jan.-Feb.1994.
www.cooperativegrocer.coop/articles/index.php?id=149

BOOKS

Jonathan Birchall, Cooperatives and the Millennium Development Goals. Geneva: International Labor Office, August 2004.
book-birchall.pdf (530KB)

Jonathan Feldman and Jessica Nembhard. 2002. From Community Economic Development and Ethnic Entrepreneurship to Economic Democracy: The Co-operative Alternative. Sweden: PFMI.

Nicole Elisabeth Frukas. Bread, Cheese, and Expertise: Dutch Science Shops and Democratic Institutions. Troy, NY: Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies, Rochester Polytechnic Institute, May 2002.
book-farkas.pdf (1MB)

John Knell, Short Inquiry: The All Party Parliamentary Group on Employee Ownership, The All Party Parliamentary Group on Employee Ownership, London, May 2008.
book-knell.pdf (340KB)

Piotr Matela, ed., Volunteerism and social services: teaming up to tackle social exclusion in the 21st century, Warsaw, Poland: Vision 21, June 2006.
book-matela.pdf (810KB)

Gregory MacLeod, From Mondragón to America. Nova Scotia: UCCB Press, 1997.

PAPERS

Harris Beider, Diane K. Levy, and Susan Popkin, Community Revitalization in the United States and the United Kingdom, Coventry, UK and Washington, DC: Institute of Community Cohesion and Urban Institute, January 2009.
paper-beider-et-al.pdf (500KB)

Ingo Bode, Adalbert Evers, and Andreas Schulz, Facing New Challenges. Work Integration Social Enterprises in Germany, ISTR Workers paper series Toronto, paper presented at Sixth International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Ryerson University and York University, July 11-14.
paper-bode-et-al.pdf (100KB)

Jonathan Birchall, “The Future of Co-operatives and Mutual Businesses.” Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Co-operatives Association, May 1998.
http://nz.coop/docs/johnston.php

Christina Clamp, “The Evolution of Management in the Mondragón Cooperatives.” Paper presented at the congress, Mapping Co-operative Studies in the New Millennium. Victoria, Canada: British Columbia Center for Co-operative Studies, May 2003.
paper-clamp.pdf (150KB)

Susan Davis, Social Entrepreneurship: Towards an Entrepreneurial Culture for Social and Economic Development, Arlington, VA: Ashoka, July 31, 2002.
paper-davis.pdf (250KB)

Jacques Defourny and Marther Nyssens, eds., Social Enterprise in Europe: Recent Trends and Developments, New York, NY: European Research Network, no. 08/01, April 2008.
paper-defourny-nyssens.pdf (370KB)

Jacques Defourny and Victor Pestoff, editors, Images and Concepts of the Third Sector in Europe, New York, NY: European Research Network, no. 08/02, April 2008.
paper-defourny-pestoff.pdf (340KB)

Christopher Dunford, Evidence of Microfinance’s Contribution to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, Halifax, NS: Global Microcredit Summit, November 12-15, 2006.
paper-dumford.pdf (196KB)

Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Towards a Bolivarian Social Economy, Washington, DC: Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, June 2008.
paper-embassy.pdf (70KB)

Corinna Fischer, Loet Leydesdorff, and Malte Schophaus. “Science Shops in Europe: The Public as Stakeholder,” Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 2003.
http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/sshops03/

Charles Leadbeater, Social enterprise and social innovation: Strategies for the next ten years, London, UK: Cabinet Office, Office of the Third Sector, November 2007.
paper-leadbeater.pdf (220KB)

Jonathan Lewis, What Would Leland Stanford Do? An Editorial Commentary Submitted to the Microfinance Community about the Compartamos IPO, based on a presentation based on a presentation to Theories of Civil Society, Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector, Department of Political Science, Professor Bruce Sievers, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University, May 30, 2007 revised June 12, 2007.
paper-lewis.pdf (100KB)

Vernon Loke and Michael Sherraden, Building Assets from Birth: A Global Comparison of Child Development Account Policies, CSD Working Papers No. 08-03, St. Louis, MO: Center for Social Development, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008.
paper-loke-sherraden.pdf (250KB)

Marge Magner, Microfinance: A Platform for Social Change, Washington, DC: Grameen Foundation, March 2007.
paper-magner.pdf (744KB)

Ed Mayo and Andy Mullineux, Bootstraps or Braces? The regulation of community development finance institutions, London: New Economics Foundation, July 2001
paper-mayo-mullineux.pdf (530KB)

Robert H. McNulty, Asia-Pacific Creative Communities: A Strategy for the 21st
paper-mcnulty.pdf (300KB)

Jose Mari Luzarraga Monasterio, Dionisio Aranzadi Telleria, and Iñazio Irizar Etxebarria, Understanding Mondragón Globalization Process: Local Job Creation through Multi-Localization—Facing globalization threats to community stability, Oñati and Bilbao, Spain Mondragón Unibertsitatea and Universidad de Deusto, 2007.
paper-luzarraga-et-al.pdf (212KB)

Hank A. J. Mulder, Science Shops as Science-Society Interfaces. Sevilla, España: 2nd Living Knowledge Conference on “Advancing Science and Society Interactions," February 3, 2005.
paper-mulder.pdf (1MB)

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Robert Pollin, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Building the Green Economy: Employment Effects of Green Energy Investments for Ontario, Amherst, MA: Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachuetts, May 9, 2009.
paper-pollin-garrett_peltier.pdf (740KB)

Albert Rinaldi, The Emilian Model Revisited: Twenty Years After. Modena, Italia: Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, September 2002.
paper-rinaldi.pdf (100KB)

Veronika Theil, Sargon Nissan, The impact of the economic crisis on asset building in Europe: Using opportunities and creating resilience, London: New Economic Foundation and Levi Strauss Foundation, August 2009
paper-thiel-nissan.pdf (430KB)

Lloy Wylie, European Social Co-operatives: A Survey and Analysis of Current Developments. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: BC Institute for Co-operative Studies, Occasional Papers, number 6 (2001).
paper-wylie.pdf (148KB)

REPORTS

Aziza Agia, Innovative, Significant Scale Models of Community Asset-Building: Learning from International Experience. College Park, MD and Washington, D.C.: The Democracy Collaborative and the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, 2004.
report-agia.pdf (1.36MB)

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Jessica Brown, Social investment for community development: Completing the half-built house, London, UK: New Economics Foundation, 2008.
report-brown.pdf (470KB)

Co-operative Secretariat. Co-operatives: Solutions to 21st Century Challenges. Ottawa: Government of Canada, October 2001.
report-co-operative.pdf (900KB)

Co-operative Secretariat, in cooperation with the Canadian Federation of Worker Co-operatives. Worker Co-operative Success Stories, Ottawa: Government of Canada, August 2000.
report-co-operative2.pdf (123KB)

Community Services Council Newfoundland and Labrador, Community Profits: Social Enterprise in Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, CA: Community Services Council Newfoundland and Labrador, 2008.
report-csc.pdf (1.5MB)

Eurosif, Venture Capital for Sustainability 2007, Paris, France: Eurosif, 2007.
report-eurosif.pdf (3MB)

Madeline Hirschland, Renne Chao-Beroff, Malcolm Harper and Nanci Lee, Financial Services in Remote Rural Areas: Findings from Seven Member-Owned Institutions, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada: Coady International Institute, June 2008.
report-hirschland-et-al.pdf (3MB)

Ashish Karamchamdi, Michael Kubzansky, Paul Frandano, Emerging Markets, Emerging Models: Market-Based Solutions to the Challenges of Global Poverty, Cambridge, MA: Monitor Group, March 2009.
report-karamchandani-et-al.pdf (2.1MB)

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Betsy Martin and Coro Strandberg, Education and Training on Responsible Investing for Canadian Foundations and Endowments: An Inventory and Needs Analysis, Toronto, Canada: The Social Investment Organization, September 2009.
report-martin-stanberg.pdf (150KB)

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Louisa Mitchell, John Kingston, and Emilie Goodall, Financing civil society: A practitioner’s view of the UK social investment market, London, UK: Ventursome, Charities Aid Foundation, September 2008.
report-mitchell-kingston-goodall.pdf (260KB)

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Sargon Nissan and Margaret Bolton, Mission Possible: Emerging opportunities for mission-connected investment, London, UK: New Economics Foundation, 2008.
report-nissan-bolton.pdf (490KB)

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Veronika Thiel and Sargon Nissan, UK CDFIs – from surviving to thriving: realising the potential of community development finance, London, UK: New Economics Foundation, August 2008.
report-thiel-nissan.pdf (680KB)

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Wanda Wuttunee, Russ Rothney, and Lois Gray, Financing Social Enterprises: A Scan of Financing Providers in the Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Northwestern Ontario Region, Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance, January 2008.
report-wuttunee-et-al1.pdf (1.8MB)

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Wanda Wuttunee, Martin Chicilo, Russ Rothney, and Lois Gray, Financing Social Enterprise: An Enterprise Perspective (working paper), Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance, March 2008.
report-wuttunee-et-al2.pdf (2.2MB)

Peter Plastrick, Sustainable Solutions: Building Assets for Empowerment and Sustainable Development, New York, NY: Ford Foundation, August 2002.
report-plastrik.pdf (5.1MB)

Norbert Steinhaus, editor, Proceedings of the 2nd International Living Knowledge Conference “Advancing Science and Society Interactions, Seville, Spain: International Science Shop Network, February 2-5, 2005.
report-steinhaus.pdf (3.7MB)

Witold Szwajkowski, Fundusz Mikro: An experiment in partnership-based microfinance: 1998-2002, Warsaw. Poland: Development Finance Forum, 2004.
report-szwajkowski.pdf (1.5MB)

Andrea Westall and Danny Chalkley, Social Enterprise Futures, London: The Smith Institute, 2007.
report-westall-chalkley.pdf (200KB)

Jamie M. Zimmerman, et al., Global Savings, Assets & Financial Inclusion: Lessons, Challenges & Directions, Report from a Global Symposium, Singapore: Global Assets Project (Center for Social Development, Washington University, and New America Foundation), June 2007.
report-zimmerman-et-al.pdf (6MB)