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Board members, left to right: Tony Baumgartner, Enterprise Saskatchewan; Mary Beckett, Concentra Financial; Mary Buhr, Dean,Agriculture and Bioresources; Brent Cotter, Dean of Law; Jo-Anne Dillon, Dean, Arts and Science; Brooke Dobni, Acting Dean,Edwards School of Business; George Keter, Affinity Credit Union; and Marilyn McKee, Federated Co-operatives Limited.

The Centre for the Study of Co!operatives is an interdisciplinaryteaching and research institution located on the University of Saskatchewancampus in Saskatoon. Contract partners in the co-operative sector include

Credit Union Central of Saskatchewan Federated Co-operatives Limited Concentra Financial The Co-operators

The centre is also supported by Enterprise Saskatchewan and the University ofSaskatchewan. The university not only houses our offices but provides in-kindcontributions from a number of departments and units — Bioresource Policy,Business, and Economics, Management and Marketing, and Sociology, amongothers — as well as financial assistance with operations andnonsalary expenditures. We acknowledge with gratitude theongoing support of all our sponsoring organizations. Our objectives are:

to develop and offer university coursesthat provide an understanding of co-operative theory, principles, develop-ment, structures, and legislation

to undertake original research intoco-operatives

to publish co-operative research bycentre staff and other researchers

to maintain a resource centre ofco-operative materials that supportthe centre’s teaching and researchfunctions

© 2010 Centre for the Study of Co-operatives / Photographs courtesy Heather Acton; Communications Branch, Government ofSaskatchewan; Alison Cooley; Credit Union Central; Federated Co-operatives Limited; Luke Sather; Picture Perfect Portraits; and Universityof Saskatchewan / Writing, editing, and layout by Nora Russell / Printed and bound in Canada / This report covers the 2009–10 fiscalyear, and was prepared in the fourth quarter of 2010 / Board members and their positions are those as of 1 January 2010

A list of selected centre publications is in-cluded on the last two pages of this report.To order please contact:Centre for the Study of Co-operatives101 Diefenbaker PlaceUniversity of SaskatchewanSaskatoon SK Canada S7N 5B8Phone: 306–966–8509 / Fax: 306–966–8517E-mail: coop.studies@usask.caWebsite: http://www.usaskstudies.coop

It has been an honour and a privilege to serve on theManagement Advisory Board for the past eight years.

Since 1984 the Centre has made significant contri-butions to the University of Saskatchewan, the localcommunity, and especially to the co-operative move-ment. Reading this annual report, you will discoverthe Centre’s on-going commitment to excellence andachievement over the past twenty-six years. We con-gratulate the Centre’s team of fellows, staff, and scholarsfor their service and dedication.

Education and research are vital to co-operatives.“The priorities of every co-operative organization mustbe based on education, training and information of itsadministrators, employees and members. Every year, thenetwork invests an average of $1.5 million dollars in thetraining of its employees and volunteer administrators”(from www.acadie.com).

The Centre has contributed by providing coursesfor students, making presentations and facilitating con-ferences in Canada and internationally, publishing re-search findings, and making resources available bothwithin the Centre and on its websites.

The board thanks Dr. Lou Hammond Ketilson,director since 2004, for her leadership and managementexpertise. We especially appreciate her ability to attainthe sixth, five-year contract (2009–2014) with the part-nership of four co-operatives and the university. She hasalso made special efforts to keep the Government ofSaskatchewan informed of the Centre’s contributionsto the objectives of Enterprise Saskatchewan. We arehopeful that financial support from the province willresume next year.

We celebrate the Centre’s continued success in ob-taining major research grants. The $1.75 million CURA

on the Social Economy willbe completed in August 2011.This year, in partnership withCCA and three universities, theCentre received a grant tomeasure the social and econo-mic impacts of credit unionsand housing co-operatives.

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Karl BaumgardnerActing Board ChairThe Co-operators

The ability to generate externally funded research grantsof more than $2.4 million over the past five years is re-markable. These projects have enhanced the develop-ment of a network of co-op scholars and created schol-arships and employment for students.

We are proud of the Centre’s contributions to thecommunity. A major highlight this year was the launchof the exhibition titled Building Community: CreatingSocial and Economic Well-Being in partnership withthe Diefenbaker Canada Centre. The exhibit has en-abled students, teachers, and the public to experiencehow co-operatives and social enterprises help buildcommunities. Though it has concluded its six-monthrun in Saskatoon, the entire exhibit is now available invirtual format on the Centre’s website.

The Centre’s seminar series, with presentations byour students, visiting international experts, and CentreFellows and Scholars, gives members of both the uni-versity and the community the opportunity to expandtheir knowledge about co-operatives.

The Centre’s assistance to co-operatives is anothermajor outreach service, including workshops, trainingsessions, hosting international visitors, and preparingyouth for co-op internships in other countries. TheCentre’s commitment to leadership development isevident in its significant involvement with The Co-operators upcoming youth conference on sustainabilityleadership. Centre faculty and staff are also involvedwith local, national, and international co-operativeorganizations in a variety of roles and make a point ofattending many co-op AGMs.

The Centre has been fortunate to have so manydedicated volunteers on its advisory board. We thankthose whose terms concluded in the past year for theirleadership, counsel, and efforts to advance the Centre— Brent Cotter and Brooke Dobni from the Universityof Saskatchewan, and Marilyn McKee and GeorgeKeter from the co-operative sector. We will miss them.

We congratulate Lou, who has been awarded sab-batical leave in 2011. Her skills, talents, and hard workhave led the Centre to greater recognition in Canadaand abroad. We know she will be sharing her vast know-ledge of co-operatives during her well-earned sabbatical.And the board welcomes Dr. Michael Gertler, a CentreFellow, who will lead us in the capacity of actingdirector.

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As I look back on 2009–2010 Irealize that a major focus ofthe past year’s research centredon how co-operatives andother social economy organi-zations contribute to strongand vibrant communities.Centre faculty, staff, scholars,and students reflected on howto define community. Whatholds a community together?How can individuals be inter-dependent while believing they

are independent organisms? Can communities be built?How? We wondered how best to reflect different cul-tural experiences and if it was even possible to find asingular image to capture the great diversity a commu-nity represents.

What has our research revealed? We have foundthat strong communities exhibit four central character-istics. They are enterprising, providing employment op-portunities through innovation that springs from iden-tifying resources available within the community andenabling existing capacity. Strong communities utilizesustainable strategies — environmental, organizationaland individual — with an emphasis on renewing social,human, financial, and physical resources. Communitymembers have access to becoming engaged through co-operative organizations that facilitate involvement,actively seek citizen input, and enable them to feel theyhave control over their future. Finally, strong communi-ties are inclusive, making space and providing opportu-nities for everyone. Our research has demonstrated thatco-operatives and credit unions, social enterprises andnonprofits — the social economy — play a central rolein building, developing, and sustaining communitiesnot only in Saskatchewan but across Canada andaround the world.

We are proud to be sharing our research outcomesthrough a museum exhibit titled Building Community:Creating Social and Economic Well-Being. Launched inMay 2010, the exhibit was an opportunity to celebratethe twenty-fifth anniversary of the Centre’s establish-ment. It also gave us the chance to honour the vision ofthose founders who came together thirty years ago tofulfill a dream of creating space on the University ofSaskatchewan campus for faculty, students, and com-munity members to reflect on the significance of co-

operatives not only in our province, but nationally andglobally. This year marks thirty years of partnershipamong the University of Saskatchewan, the co-op sector— local, regional, and national — and the Province ofSaskatchewan, a partnership central to the achievementof that dream.

The strength of this partnership was demonstratedanew with the signing of the sixth, five-year fundingagreement in the fall of 2 0 0 9, despite the economic hard-ships of the recession. The ongoing support of our fun-ders is critical to the achievement of our mandate ofteaching, research, and outreach. The significance ofour partners’ contributions cannot be overstated.

We were granted a one-year extension to ourSSHRC-funded research project on the social economy— Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Social Enterprises,Knowledgeable Economies, and Sustainable Commu-nities. The past year focussed on finishing research pro-jects and the coming year will be devoted to writingfinal reports and producing publications, sharing theresearch outcomes in as many diverse forms as possible.We have received more SSHRC funding to begin a newfive-year study to measure the co-operative difference,in partnership with the Canadian Co-operative Associa-tion, Saint Mary’s and Mount Saint Vincent Universitiesin Halifax, the University of Victoria, and many co-op-erative and credit union partners.

This past year saw many changes to the compositionof our Management Advisory Board. We welcomedDean Mary Buhr, Acting Dean Brooke Dobni, HerbCarlson and Tony Baumgartner, while saying farewellto Acting Dean Graham Scoles, Dean Brent Isaac, DionMcGrath, George Keter, and Marilyn McKee. I wouldlike to thank each member of the board for their valuedcontributions and guidance. The Centre benefits tremen-dously from their diversity of opinion and wisdom.

We were particularly pleased to welcome staff mem-ber Heather Acton back to the Centre in February. Wemissed her terribly and wish her continued good health.We said a reluctant goodbye to Postdoctoral FellowCatherine Leviten-Reid, with us for eighteeen months,who took up a position at Cape Breton University.January 2011 will see Dr. Michael Gertler assuming therole of acting director as I take a sabbatical leave. It hasbeen a privilege to lead the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives for the past six years. I wish to thank Centrestaff, fellows, scholars, and students for their contribu-tions to another successful year and for making myterm as director a genuine pleasure.

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Lou Hammond Ketilson

Centre Research Finds New HomesAlthough the Centre is well known in the internationalco-op world, every now and then we make interestingnew contacts and find our research being disseminatedin places we might not have imagined. Below are twoexamples, as well as one closer to home.

The Nonghyup Economic Research Institute of theNational Agricultural Cooperative Federation in SouthKorea has translated Co-operative Conversions, Failures,and Restructuring: Case Studies and Lessons from U.S.and Canadian Agriculture, edited by Murray Fulton andBrent Hueth, which the Centre recently co-publishedwith the Wisconsin Centre for Cooperatives.

The Siberian University of Consumer Co-opera-tives in Novosibirsk, Russia, which has been engaged inco-operative education and research since the 1950s, islaunching a new journal covering current trends andissues in global co-operation. They have requested per-mission to reprint one Centre publication in each issue.The reprint will appear in both English and Russian.Bill Turner’s Co-operative Membership: Issues andChallenges will appear in the first issue.

As a component of its research strategy, CreditUnion Central of Canada is interested in developingresearch that supports innovation for the credit unionsystem and has requested a copy of Centre graduatestudent Wu Hao Tao’s PhD dissertation, “An EconomicAnalysis of Microcredit Lending,” which explores whycredit unions are able to undertake microcredit pro-grams and make them work, while the chartered bankschoose not to engage in this activity.

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Honours for SponsorsWe are proud to acknowledge the honours bestowedon all four of our co-operative sector sponsoring organi-zations this past year. Concentra Financial achievedPlatinum status by being named one of Canada’s fiftybest-managed companies for the sixth consecutive year.The Co-operators was named one of the fifty best em-ployers in Canada. Federated Co-operatives Limitedwon the Saskatoon Achievement in Business Excellenceaward in the category of Environmental Sustainability.And SaskCentral was named one of the seventy-fiveBest Workplaces in Canada for 2010. The existence ofthe Centre depends upon the good will, guidance, andfinancial support of its sponsors. It is wonderful to seethem honoured for their invaluable contributions to thebroader community.

A New SSHRC Research GrantWe are delighted to announce our participation in anew Community-University Research Alliance initiatedby the Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA) andfunded by the Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada. In partnership with four Canadianuniversities, CCA has been awarded funding of $1m overfive years to conduct research on the social, economic,and environmental impact of co-operatives in Canada.

Research at the Centre, which is already underway,will focus on two projects. The first — “Measuring theImpact of Credit Unions on Wealth Building in Com-munities” — aims to better understand the precisebenefits that credit unions provide their members andcommunities, and the specific waysthat credit unions help their mem-bers create wealth, financial stability,well-being, and skills. The secondproject — “The Impact of Co-operative Housing on HouseholdIncome, Skills, and Social Capital”— will examine the economic andsocial impact of co-operative hous-ing compared to other forms ofaffordable housing.

Other partners include SaintMary’s University, the University ofVictoria, and Mount Saint VincentUniversity, plus more than a dozenco-operative associations, co-ops,credit unions, and other academicresearchers.

New CURA Management Board (from left): Quintin Fox, Canadian Co-operativeAssociation; Centre Director Lou Hammond Ketilson; John Anderson, CanadianCo-operative Association; Minister Gary Goodyear; Carmen Charette, Executive VP,SSHRC; and Sonja Novkovic, Saint Mary’s University

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T e a c h i n g• Centre fellows, scholars, and grad students teach

thirteen classes with co-op content, includingone special topics class (see page 15)

• Centre fellows and scholars are supervisingseventeen students working on co-op topics

Research Activities• Linking, Learning, Leveraging — the Social

Economy Project• Houses and Communities: A Case Study of

Co-op Assisted Home Ownership in SK• Cognition and Governance in the Social

Economy: Innovation in MultistakeholderOrganizations

• Co-ordination, Identity, and Success in a Feder-ated Marketing System: Retail Co-operatives inWestern Canada

• co-operative conversions• Adapting to New Environments: Agriculture and

Rural Economies in the 21st Century• the impact of credit unions on communities• The Impact of Co-operative Housing on

Household Income, Skills, and Social Capital• a gender analysis of research conducted within

the Canadian Social Economy ResearchPartnerships

• Food Sovereignty in the Canadian Context:Issues, Initiatives, and Opportunities

• co-operatives and care services• executive compensation in the public and co-op

sectors• analysis of co-op legislation in Canada that

enables the development of social co-operatives• an evaluation of Crocus Co-op• a study of health services in Duck Lake, SK• methods and indicators for evaluating the social

and co-operative economy

Faculty/Staff/Student News• our librarian and SSHRC-project co-ordinator

Heather Acton is back with us full time aftermany months on medical leave

• congratulations to Lou and Murray, whoreceived long-service awards this past year inrecognition of their twenty-five years at theUniversity of Saskatchewan

• Catherine Leviten-Reid, a postdoctoral fellowat the Centre for eighteen months, left us inAugust for a position in the Shannon Schoolof Business at Cape Breton University

• Ann Hoyt, a professor in the Departmentof Consumer Science at the University ofWisconsin–Madison, spent two weeks at theCentre in March/April as a Visiting Scholar

• Jessica Gordon Nembhard, last year’s VisitingScholar, returned twice for follow-up work withCentre colleagues

• congratulations to Monica Juarez Adeler, a PhDstudent in the Co-op Concentration and winnerof the 2010 Fredeen Scholarship

• Rochelle Smith defended her PhD dissertationtitled “The Relationship of Saskatchewan’sCo-operative Community Clinics with theGovernment of Saskatchewan: Towards a NewUnderstanding” in March

• Zhao Jun, who began his PhD studies at theCentre, defended his dissertation titled “ThePolitical Economy of Farmer Co-operativeDevelopment in China” in May

• MA student Kama Soles defended her thesis titled“Empowerment through Co-operation: Disabil-ity Inclusion via Multistakeholder Co-operativeDevelopment” in August

• PhD candidate Mitch Diamantopoulos publishedhis first book this spring, an edited collectiontitled -30-: Thirty Years of Journalism andDemocracy in Canada, The Minifie Lectures,1981–2010

• PhD student Maria Basualdo is spending the yearwith the Canadian International DevelopmentAgency in Peru, where she will pursue field workfor her dissertation titled “Indigenous Women’sCommunity Development: A Comparison ofCanada and Latin America”

• last year’s summer research student, NormaBrunanski, who assisted in preparing materialsfor the Building Community exhibit, returned tothe Centre for two weeks in April to help withgathering artifacts

• Skye Ketilson joined us briefly to assist withresearch on the Social Economy exhibition

• and we have a new PhD student in the Co-opConcentration; Annette Johnson’s dissertation is

titled “Finding a Way Out: An Investigationinto the Amalgamation of Worker Co-ops andCanadian Unions”

The Seminar Series• “Agricultural Co-operatives in the Philippines

and Canada: Opportunities and Challenges” • “Empowerment through Co-operation: Dis-

ability Solidarity in the Social Economy” • “Can Worker Co-operatives Reduce Recidivism?

Italian Worker Co-operatives and Offender Re-habilitation”

• “The Performance of Financial Co-operatives inthe Financial Crisis: The European Experience”

P u b l i c a t i o n s• Centre newsletter• social economy newsletter• ten final reports from the Social Economy

project• Building Community: A Conference Reflecting on

Co-operative Strategies and Experience, report• The Impact of Retail Co-operative Amalgamations

in Western Canada, research report• with Greg Marchildon, School of Public Policy

(Regina), and the Canadian Plains ResearchCentre, collaborating to produce a revised andexpanded edition of Stan Rands’s Privilege andPolicy: A History of the Community Clinics inSaskatchewan (book, forthcoming)

• A Co-operative Dilemma: Converting Organiza-tional Form (book, forthcoming)

• Re-Thinking Social Enterprises: Co-op Renewal inCanadian Communities (book, forthcoming)

• reprints of ten titles

Centre Scholars• Louise Clarke made one co-op based presenta-

tion; attended both the Ontario and Saskatche-wan region workshops for the Social Economyproject; took part in the Centre’s strategic plan-ning retreat; and is on committees for five stu-dents working on co-op topics

• Isobel Findlay taught two classes with co-op con-tent; is on committees for six students workingon co-op topics; is the PI for ten Social Economyprojects; attended the Ontario and Saskatchewanregion workshops for the Social Economy pro-ject; made three presentations on co-op topics;participated in the Centre’s strategic planningretreat; and is on the executive of the CanadianAssociation for Studies in Co-operation

• Len Findlay is on committees for two Co-opConcentration students and took part in theCentre’s strategic planning retreat

• Ellen Goddard is Co-operative Chair in Agricul-tural Marketing and Business, Department ofRural Economy, University of Alberta; teachesone class with co-op content; and published onearticle with co-op content

• Ian MacPherson made seven presentations on co-op topics; published one book and two articleson co-op topics; and is PI of the Canadian SocialEconomy Hub

• Sheryl Mills made one presentation on co-oplearning and participated in the Centre’sstrategic planning retreat

• Brian Oleson is University of Manitoba Agri-business Chair in Co-operatives and Marketing;a co-investigator on two co-op projects; andattended two co-op–related conferences

• Jorge Sousa is a co-investigator with the southernOntario and BC-Alberta nodes of the Social Eco-nomy project; has five co-op–related publicationsforthcoming; made seven presentations on co-optopics; and is working with a student group atthe University of Alberta to build co-op housing

• Isobel, Louise, Len, Brian, Ellen, Ian, and MorrisAltman are co-applicants in the Social Economyp r o j e c t

Dr. Ann Hoyt, a professorin the Department of Con-sumer Science at the Uni-versity of Wisconsin—Madi-son, spent time with usduring March-April 2010as a visiting scholar. Sheworked with Catherine,M i c h a e l, and Lou develop-ing a course focussed onconsumer co-operatives.At her home university,Dr. Hoyt is the co–principal

investigator on a grant to measure the direct, indirect, andinduced economic impacts of US co-operatives, a topic thatfits well with the Centre’s new research initiative studyingthe economic, social, and environmental impact of co-op-eratives in Canada, a project developed in partnership withthe Canadian Co-operative Association.

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Building Community: Creating Socialand Economic Well!Being

On 18 May 2010, after eighteen months of intensiveand often challenging work, the Centre for the Studyof Co-operatives and the Diefenbaker Canada Centreproudly launched the much-anticipated exhibitionBuilding Community: Creating Social and EconomicWell-Being, based on research results from the SocialEconomy project. Designed to be suitable for all ages,and to align with relevant school curriculum, the ex-hibit consisted of almost a hundred illustrated panels,artifacts in display cases, videos, and interactive multi-media presentations. His Honour, the Honourable Dr.Gordon Barnhart, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatche-wan, was joined by other dignitaries representing theuniversity, the co-operative sector, and the Governmentof Saskatchewan in providing opening remarks.

This was a unique undertaking for the Centre anda significant test of the skills and experience, not tomention patience, of those involved. And while every-one at the Centre, and several people at the DiefenbakerCentre, lent their time and expertise to the task alongthe way, a few individuals need to be singled out. Roger

Herman (left) was the project co-ordinator and it was largely hisvision that informed the exhibit. Itwas Roger who identified the themesand subthemes around which webuilt the exhibit, and Roger’s logis-tical skills that brought everythingtogether into a coherent whole.Summer student Norma Brunanskicontributed enormously by distilling

content from final project reports, creating first-drafttext for dozens of panels, and doing countless hours ofphoto research. Nora Russell (right)had oversight of all editorial andproduction aspects of the exhibit,editing and condensing text so nopanel exceeded its 125-word limitand proofreading all the panels.And, like Roger, she wrote text formany of the subthemes.

This exhibition would not existwithout the expertise of staff at the Diefenbaker CanadaCentre. Curator Teresa Carlson did a fabulous job

creating the overall lookfor the exhibit anddesigning the panels.Manager Terresa AnnDeMong kept us on task,r e v i s i n g timelines andschedules more timesthan she cares to count.And student tour guidesbrought the enthusiasmof youth to interpretingthe exhibition for closeto two thousand schoolchildren and hundreds ofmembers of the public

during its six-month run in Saskatoon, which conclu-ded at the end of October 2010.

The exhibition was the centrepiece of the Centre’stwenty-fifth anniversary celebrations and also served toacknowledge thirty years of generous support from theco-operative sector, the provincial government, and theUniversity of Saskatchewan.

The reception following the launch was a trulyjoyous affair attended by about sixty people, many ofwhom had come from points across Canada, and somefrom the US, to join the festivities and attend the con-ference organized around exhibit themes the followingday. We were particularly pleased to have so manyrepresentatives from our sponsoring organizations inattendance.

Research assistant NormaBrunanski, left, and curatorTeresa Carlson

Museum interpreter Michal Janus

Although no longer on display in a physical location,the entire exhibit, including the multimedia presenta-tions, is available at http://usaskstudies.coop/exhibit.Plans are also underway to have it travel to local co-op-eratives and credit unions, regional museums, schools,and some of our sponsoring organizations.

The photographs on these pages capture momentsfrom the formal opening of the exhibition and thereception that followed.

Centre Director Lou HammondKetilson introducing platformguests

Above, the Honourable Dr.Gordon Barnhart, LieutenantGovernor of Saskatchewan,provided opening remarks;left, FCL President GlenTully brought greetings fromthe co-operative sector asUniversity Provost andCentre Fellow Brett Fair-bairn looked on

From left: CentreFellow Michael

Gertler, communitypartner Brendan

Reimer, and CentreFellow Murray Fulton

Former and cur-rent FCL Presi-dents (from left)Vern Lelandand Glen Tully,with formerCentre boardmembers BillTurner andGary Storey inthe background

Above, the Centre’soffice manager,Patty Scheidl (left),and Vicki Herman;right, graduatestudents RobDobrohoczki andMonica JuarezAdeler

Nora Russell andTeresa Carlson inthe gallery withstudent AlisonCooley, one ofthe interpretersfor the exhibition,who also tookmany of thephotographs onthese pages

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The Social Economy Regional WorkshopThe Community Economic and Social Developmentunit, Algoma University, and the NORDIK Institutehosted the third regional Social Economy Workshop inSault Ste. Marie, 28–29 April 2010. Titled “GovernmentThat Works for People: Policy Development and theSocial Economy,” it aimed to initiate a dialogue amongresearchers, communities, and policy makers regardingpolicies that support the social economy, and to allowparticipants to share knowledge regarding the process ofpolicy development. There were research presentations,small group discussions, and plenary sessions in whichparticipants worked on recommendations to take for-ward to various levels of government. It was attendedby approximately forty-five people from across the threeprovinces.

The C A S C C o n f e r e n c eThe annual CASC conference took place 1–4 June 2010at Concordia University in Montreal and was well at-tended by Centre faculty, staff, students, and scholars.It also attracted international scholars from the US, theUK, Japan, Argentina, and Austria. Titled “CommunityBuilding through Co-operative Research: Challengesand Opportunities at Home and Abroad,” the confer-ence featured more than fifty presentations on topicssuch as governance and social responsibility, co-opera-tives and inclusive communities, community-based re-search, community-university collaborations in educa-tion, co-ops and Aboriginal communities, and co-ops inrelation to youth, food, women, and globalization. It

also featured joint sessions with the Association for Non-p r o fit and Social Economy Research and C I R I E C- C a n a d a ,which broadened the discussion base significantly.

The Building Community ConferenceOn 19 May 2010, the Centre hosted a large enthusiasticcrowd at a conference based on themes arising from theBuilding Community exhibition launched the previousday. Titled “Building Community: A Conference Reflec-ting on Co-operative Strategies and Experiences,” itdrew almost a hundred participants. Presenters, includ-ing co-op leaders and academics from Saskatchewan,Ontario, and the US, addressed issues such as sustain-ability, co-operative identity, the changing financiallandscape, engaging Aboriginal communities, multi-stakeholder co-ops, building healthy communities, andco-operative development. During the lunch break, theDiefenbaker Canada Centre offered tours of the Build-ing Community exhibit. All in all, it was a stimulatingand inspiring day.

The Provincial Social Economy WorkshopA small but dedicated group of researchers, students,and community partners gathered for the SaskatchewanProvincial Social Economy Workshop, co-ordinated byour local project partner, the Community-UniversityInstitute for Social Research, on 19 November 2010 atWanuskewin Heritage Park just outside Saskatoon. Theintent was to provide a forum for participants to sharepractical lessons learned during the research process; tomake presentations on research findings; and to reviewproject goals and define directions for future research.The wonderful poster presentations and the discussionsthey inspired were particularly memorable.

Drummers welcoming participants to the regional SocialEconomy Workshop in Sault Ste. Marie, 28 April 2010.

Saskatchewan Co-op Association staff Carla Paul, AliekaBeckett, Fred Khonje, and Executive Director Victoria Morris,Social Economy Workshop, 19 November, in Saskatoon

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Other Conferences, Workshops, and MeetingsSaskatchewan Co-operative Association’s Co-op

Developer Training Seminar, December 2009,Saskatoon

Federated Co-operatives Limited’s AGM, March 2010,Saskatoon

Saskatchewan Economic Development Associationconference, March, Saskatoon

Credit Union Central of Alberta AGM, April,Edmonton

The Co-operators AGM, April, ReginaCredit Union Central of Canada AGM, May,

WinnipegArctic Co-operatives Limited AGM, May, WinnipegThe 2010 National Summit on a People-Centred

Economy, June, OttawaCanadian Co-operative Association’s AGM, June,

VancouverSaskatchewan Co-operative Association AGM, June,

SaskatoonAssociation of Co-operative Educators Institute, July,

ClevelandNational Ambassadors’ Committee 2012 Internation-

al Year of Co-operatives meeting, August, OttawaThe Co-operators Impact! Conference on Youth

Sustainability Leadership conference steeringcommittee meetings, August, Guelph

ICA Committee on Co-operative Research Confer-ence, September, Lyon, France

Conférence internationale coopératives, mutuelleset territoires: Enjeux, defies, et alternatives,September, Lévis, PQ

Co-operative Research Co-ordination Project steer-ing committee meeting, October, Ottawa

Regional Co-operative Policy Forum hosted by Ruraland Co-operatives Secretariat, October, Winnipeg

“A Special Kind of Business: The Co-operativeMovement 1950–2010 … and Beyond,” October,Milan, Italy

Co-op Week, October 2010: Regina Co-op NetworkLuncheon; Saskatchewan Co-operative MeritAwards, Regina; Concentra Co-op Week lunchmeetings, Regina and Saskatoon; Saskatoon Co-opNetwork Luncheon; Manitoba Co-op MeritAwards, Winnipeg

2010 Manitoba CD/CED Gathering, October,Winnipeg

Saskatchewan Economic Development Associationconference, October, Saskatoon

Federated Co-operatives Limited LeadershipDevelopment Program, October, Saskatoon

Barbara Turley-McIntyre of TheCo-operators Group,a Centre sponsor,during her presenta-tion at the BuildingCommunity Confer-ence in May

Former Centreboard member

Marilyn McKeeand FCL PresidentGlen Tully at theMay conference

Students Macrina Badgerand Kayleigh Kazakoff atthe Building Communityconference

Centre DirectorLou Hammond

Ketilson putsthe day in a

“buildingcommunity”

context

Centre board member Karl Baumgardner andSaskatoon Community Clinic administratorPatrick Lapointe chat during a break

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• “The Resilience of the Co-operative Business Modelin Times of Crisis,” to the Saskatchewan EconomicDevelopment Association Conference, MarchSaskatoon

• “Centre for the Study of Co-operatives: Overviewand Accountability Report,” presented to CreditUnion Central of Saskatchewan’s AGM, April,Saskatoon

• “Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Project Overviewand Looking Forward,” presented to annual region-al conference for the Social Economy project, April,Sault Ste. Marie

• as host of the Building Community exhibit launch,18 May, Lou provided welcome and opening re-marks, introductions and thanks to guest speakers,and concluding remarks

• “Putting the Day in a ‘Building Community’ Con-text,” to Building Community Conference, May,Saskatoon

• resource person for Enterprise Development Work-shop, 2010 National Summit on a People-CentredEconomy,” May, Ottawa

• “Building Community: Partnering to MobilizeKnowledge of the Social Economy,” to Associationfor Nonprofit and Social Economy Research(ANSER) Conference, June, Montreal

• “If Small Is Beautiful, Big Is Spectacular,” toCanadian Association for Studies in Co-operation(CASC) Conference, June, Montreal

• “Building Inclusive Communities: Social EconomyEnterprises and Their Role in Community Econo-mic Development,” CASC Conference, June,Montreal

• Moderator for Co-operatives and AboriginalCommunities session, CASC Conference, June,Montreal

• Co-op Development Workshop facilitator, Cross-roads: Choosing Cooperation, the 2010 AceInstitute, July, Cleveland

• “Greetings from the Executive” for opening paneland chaired two sessions, ICA Committee on Co-

operative Research Conference, September, Lyon,France

• Discussant, “A Special Kind of Business: The Co-operative Movement 1950–2010 … and Beyond,”October, Milan, Italy

• “The Future of Co-operatives,” to Co-op WeekLuncheon, October, Regina

• participant, Cultivating Co-operation, the 2010Manitoba CD/CED Gathering, October, Winnipeg

• “Are We Walking the Talk? Evaluating the Impactof the Co-operative Retailing System on Commu-nity” and “Developing an Index for Measuring Im-pact,” to Federated Co-operatives Limited Leader-ship Development Program, October, Saskatoon;Lou also co-ordinated and facilitated the day’sprogram

• “Linking, Learning, Leveraging: Initiatives andAchievements,” to Saskatchewan Provincial SocialEconomy Workshop, November, Saskatoon

Lou Hammond Ketilson andCentre Founder Vern Lelandcutting our twenty-fifth anni-versary cake, made by Grey-stone Co-op, at the receptionfollowing the launch of the Building Community Exhibit

Catherine Leviten!Reid• interview with Canada World Youth for a video on

health co-ops

• interview with the Association of CooperativeEducators on health co-ops for a newsletter

• “Multistakeholder Co-ops: When Theory and Prac-tice Collide,” to Building Community Conference,May, Saskatoon

• CASC Conference, June, Montreal — Catherine wasconference chair and also chaired the AGM; pro-vided “Welcoming Remarks”; presented “HighTransaction Costs or Successful Co-ordinatingMechanisms: A Look at Multistakeholder Co-operatives”; and moderated the Nonprofit andSocial Co-operatives session

• chair, Opportunities and Future Directions sessionat the ANSER conference, June, Montreal

Roger Herman• “The Art and Science of Knowledge Mobilization,”

to CASC conference, June, Montreal

• “Reconciling the Contradictions: Living Our ValuesWhile Sustaining our Core Business,” and “Revisit-ing Retail Amalgamations Using a Strategic Think-ing Approach,” to Federated Co-operatives LimitedLeadership Development Program, October,Saskatoon

• “Knowledge Mobilization: Demystifying Research,”Co-op Week presentation to Concentra Financialand SaskCentral in Regina and to ConcentraFinancial in Saskatoon, October

Brett Fairbairn• “Why Bother Building Community?” keynote ad-

dress to the Building Community exhibit launch,May, Saskatoon

• “What Is Good Governance in Federated Systems?”to Federated Co-operatives Limited LeadershipDevelopment Program, October, Saskatoon

Murray Fulton

• with Konstantinos Giannakas, “Horizon and Free-Rider Problems in Co-operatives,” to AJAE, CJAE &WAEA Annual Meetings, July, Denver

• with Nicoleta Uzea, “Increasing Returns, PatronagePayments, and Co-operative Membership,” to AJAE,

CJAE & WAEA Annual Meeting, July, Denver

• “Co-op Conversions, Failures, and Restructurings:Case Studies and Lessons from U.S. and CanadianAgriculture,” to Crossroads: Choosing Cooperation,the 2010 Ace Institute, July, Cleveland

• with Michael Atkinson, “A Cognitive Approach toConflict of Interest: Policy Responses in the Cana-dian Sponsorship Scandal,” September, Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln, and also at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, Uni-versity of Saskatchewan and University of Regina

• “Strategies for Encouraging Co-operation and Co-ordination in the Co-operative Retailing System,”to Federated Co-operatives Limited LeadershipDevelopment Program, October, Saskatoon

Michael Gertler• co-moderator, Building Community Conference,

May, Saskatoon

• “Co-operative Knowledge: Research as a Co-op andCommunity Development Strategy,” CASC confer-ence, June, Montreal

• “Sustainable and Sustaining Communities: WhatDo We Need from Governance and GovernanceResearch?” to Learning Local Governance: Re-imagining Sustainable Communities workshop,June, Saskatoon.

• with Eric Leviten-Reid and Jane Dimnik, “Housesand Communities: Learning from a Case Study ofCo-operative Assisted Home Ownership in Saskat-chewan,” Saskatchewan Provincial Social EconomyWorkshop, November, Saskatoon

Panels and a display unit for the Ohpahow WawesecikiwakArts Marketing Co-operative from Big River, SK, in the galleryat the Building Community exhibit

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C e n t r e P e o p l e

Lou Hammond Ketilson, DirectorAssociate Professor, Management and MarketingBA Hon., MBA, PhD (Sask.)

Lou holds an appointment inManagement and Marketing in theEdwards School of Business. Her re-search interests include managementin co-ops and other democratic or-ganizations, women in co-operatives,Aboriginal co-op development, anddiversity on co-operative boards andgovernance bodies. Lou was asso-

ciate dean of Commerce from 1999 to 2004 and thenserved as acting director at the Centre for a number ofmonths. She was formally appointed to the directorshipin April 2005.

Brett Fairbairn, University Provost and VP AcademicAdjunct Professor, Department of HistoryBA (Sask.), BA Hon., DPhil (Oxford)

Brett was director of the Centrefrom July 2000 to June 2004, whenhe left to become head of the De-partment of History. His researchinterests include co-op history,focussing particularly on Canadaand Germany, and the developmentof participatory democratic cultures.Brett has served as president of theSaskatoon Community Clinic and the CanadianAssociation for Studies in Co-operation. He becameUniversity Provost and VP Academic in July 2008.

Murray Fulton, Professor, Johnson!Shoyama GraduateSchool of Public PolicyBSA (Sask.), MSc (Texas A&M), BA, MA (Oxford), PhD (Calif.)

Murray directed the Centre fromJuly 1995 to June 2000, when hebecame head of the Department ofAgricultural Economics and thenacting associate dean of GraduateStudies and Research. In January2003 he became director of theCentre for Studies in Agriculture,Law, and the Environment, and in

July 2008 his university appointment moved from the

College of Agriculture and Bioresources to the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, where heserves as graduate chair. Murray’s research interests in-clude the economic theory of co-ops, agricultural andresource markets, and agricultural policy, focussingrecently on structural changes in agriculture and theresponses of organizations to these changes.

Michael Gertler, Associate ProfessorDepartment of SociologyBES (Waterloo), MSc (McGill), PhD (Cornell)

Michael has been a member of theDepartment of Sociology since 1987,where he teaches the sociology ofcommunities, rural sociology, andthe sociology of agriculture. Hejoined the Centre in 1996. His re-search interests include co-operativesand sustainable development, co-opmembership and new forms of re-gional integration, and the roles of co-operatives inagricultural and local food systems. Michael is academicco-lead of the Community Economic DevelopmentModule, Community-University Institute for SocialResearch, and serves on numerous boards andcommittees in Canada and the US.

Nora Russell, Publications and CommunicationsBA Hon., DipEd (Sask.)

Nora spent a number of years in thepublishing industry prior to comingto the Centre in 1997. She is respon-sible for the Centre’s communica-tions and publishing activities —promotional materials, director’s re-ports, the annual report, newsletters,books, occasional papers, researchreports, booklets, and other writing,editing, and research projects as they arise. She alsodesigns the Centre’s publications and communicationsmaterials and oversees all aspects of prepress andprinting activity. Nora is a member of the Editors’Association of Canada and the Saskatchewan PublishersGroup. She is also the Centre’s representative to theCo-op Network of Saskatoon.

Roger Herman, Research OfficerBA, BEd, MA (Sask.)

Following several years with theCanadian Co-operative Association,Roger joined the Centre as a re-search officer in 1998. His currentresearch is connected with the SocialEconomy project, although he alsohas interests in the diffusion ofinnovation in organizational forms,New Generation Co-operatives, and

organizational conversion. Roger is the Centre’s grad-uate student liaison and also co-ordinates the CentreSeminar Series and the activities of Centre visitors. Hespent three years on the board of the Saskatoon Com-munity Clinic and is currently a board member withthe Association of Cooperative Educators, where heserved as president from 2007 to 2009. Roger is also theCentre’s representative at the meetings and events of anumber of local community-based organizations.

Patty Scheidl, Office ManagerPatty joined us in January 2001following twenty years with theCollege of Education. Her broad-based administrative and financialskills are invaluable to the Centre’soperations. Patty manages the office,which includes not only the generalfinances but also all the research ac-counts. She also lends her organi-zational skills to the special events undertaken by theCentre, including conferences, workshops, study tours,and numerous meetings. She deals with travel and ac-commodation arrangements for Centre personnel andthe myriad of details involved in accommodating ourmany foreign visitors, contract researchers, studentassistants, and the Centre’s graduate students.

Catherine Leviten!Reid, Postdoctoral FellowBA (York), MSc (Guelph), PhD (Wisconsin)

Catherine joined us as a postdocto-ral fellow in January 08, having re-cently completed her PhD in humanecology at the University of Wiscon-sin–Madison, where she was a re-search assistant at the Center forCooperatives and a Graduate Re-search Fellow with the Institute for

Research on Poverty. Catherine’s research interests lie in

social co-operatives. While at the Centre she served onthe board of the Saskatoon Community Clinic and aspresident of the Canadian Association for Studies inCo-operation. Catherine left us in August 2010 for aposition in the Shannon School of Business at CapeBreton University. We wish her all the best.

Karen Neufeldt, SecretaryKaren worked part time for theCentre for ten years and became afull-time employee in September2005, when the Centre’s researchactivities increased dramatically. Sheprovides support in general officeduties to Patty, faculty, staff, andstudents, and a great deal of assis-tance in the library, where she pre-pares books for cataloguing, maintains the vertical files,routs new serials, and assists with circulation, shelving,and searches. In addition, Karen manages the officexeroxing, phone and fax bills, library and publicationorders, and the mail-outs for the annual report, news-letters, conferences, scholarship notices, and the seminarseries.

Heather Acton, LibrarianHeather joined us in September 2007after nineteen years’ experience in aspecial library setting and at the uni-versity. She was the librarian for aSaskatoon law firm and prior tothat, an editorial assistant and re-search co-ordinator in the ChemistryDepartment on campus. Heather’sduties with the Centre include de-velopment and maintenance of the library, providingresearch support to Centre Fellows and Scholars, staff,students, and community partners, maintenance of theCentre blog, and research and administration for ourSSHRC grant focussed on the Social Economy.

Duy Hoang, IT SpecialistDuy is employed by the university’s Information Tech-nology Services Division and works for us on a part-time basis. He looks after all our technology needs,including managing the server, dealing with upgradesand new software, and fielding endless IT queries fromfaculty and staff. We would be lost without him. Duybegan his studies in computer science, acquiring AppleCertification along the way, and then switched into finearts, where he is pursuing a degree in studio art.

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2009–10 2009–10 2008–09Budget Actual Actual

RevenuesCo-op Sector Contribution $339,637 $339,637.00 $326,636.16University of Saskatchewan Contribution 633,778 634,657.96 597,742.64Government of Saskatchewan Contribution 75,000 75,000.00 75,000.00Office Space — In Kind 24,349 24,348.96 24,204.00Publications 2,500 777.16 2,636.14Visiting Scholars and Special Projects Funds 35,000 0.00 0.00Miscellaneous 3,000 0.00 10,603.22Overhead Revenue 0 1,542.56 2,655.95Equipment Grant — U of S 40,000 40,000.00 0.00Total $1,153,264 $1,115,963.64 $1,039,478.11

ExpendituresSalaries

Academic 0.00Academic In-Kind $457,700 $457,701.28 $417,901.17Support Staff 302,938 276,758.63 291,312.12Sessional — Support 12,000 11,811.00 11,467.00Director Compensation 48,307 48,307.00 48,019.00

Fringe Benefits 137,834 126,866.02 122,754.86Office Space 24,349 24,348.96 24,204.00Material and Supplies 5,000 4,071.18 4,543.62Printing 8,500 7,964.82 6,189.15Postage, Courier 2,500 1,591.43 2,077.31Telephone 2,500 2,826.15 1,998.25Travel 25,000 24,341.22 25,170.43Equipment & Maintenance 14,000 13,865.76 13,898.79Library Acquisitions 7,000 6,844.96 7,882.03Miscellaneous 2,000 2,160.11 11,059.47Public Relations 6,500 6,178.66 6,464.44Research 25,000 23,236.36 48,010.70Visting Scholors & Special Projects Fund 35,000 27,960.14 82,500.02Interfund Transfer 0 6,300.00 7,150.00Dues and Memberships 3,000 2,508.50 2,875.99Total $1,119,128 $1,075,642.18 $1,135,478.35

Excess of Revenues over Expenditures $34,136 $40,321.46 ($96,000.24)Fund Balance, Beginning of Year 368,006.32 368,006.32Fund Balance, End of Year $408,327.78 $368,006.32

Balance Sheet for Year Ended 30 June 2010

Assets 2010 2009Cash $374,688.74 $380,154.57Prepaid Expense 0.00 0.00Accounts Receivable 49,460.41 3,471.90Total $424,149.15 $383,626.47

Liabilities and Fund BalanceAccounts Payable $15,821.37 $15,620.15Fund Balance 408,327.78 368,006.32Total $424,149.15 $383,626.47

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Bioresource Policy, Business, and Economics +'"-&:Agricultural Market Organizations

Develops a conceptual framework to analyze organizations,their behaviour, their interactions with other firms, and theirimpact on an industry. Reviews literature on organizationaltheory, industrial organization, and contract theory, especiallyas they focus on co-operatives, crown corporations, and otherforms of organization. Instructor: Murray Fulton

Bioresource Policy, Business, and Economics +(%-&:Agricultural Policy

Focuses on an economic analysis of agricultural policies inCanada. Discusses general economic policy in terms of how itimpacts trade, investments, economic growth, and efficiency.Instructor: Murray Fulton

Economics "&%-&: Economics of Co!operativesExamines the historical background, philosophy, and devel-opment of co-operatives, with special reference to the experi-ence and problems of the Prairie economy. Also analyses theeconomic problems particular to co-operative organizations.Instructor: Murray Fulton

Interdisciplinary Studies +$+-&: Organizations,Communities, and Social Change

An overview of the social and economic effects of organiza-tions such as co-ops and other forms of social enterprise. Fo-cuses on the characteristics of social economy organizations,the nature of economic and social development, and theconceptualization and measurement of social impacts. Givesparticular attention to new forms of community and co-operative enterprises and their roles in a knowledge-basedeconomy. Instructors: Michael Gertler and Isobel Findlay

Law ')"-&: Co!operative LawA study of the co-operative corporation as a business formand the theory of co-operative enterprise. Topics includeincorporation, members’ rights, directors’ duties and obliga-tions, and taxation. Also considers co-operatives in a broader,social perspective. Instructor: Rob Dobrohoczki

Public Policy +#(-&: Economics for Public Policy AnalysisProvides an economic framework for the analysis of publicpolicy; examines when and how the government should inter-vene in the economy and the circumstances under which thisis most likely to be desirable; pays particular attention to howpeople are likely to respond to policy instruments. Instructor:Murray Fulton

Public Policy +#)-&: Public Policy AnalysisAnalyses the processes whereby public policies arise and areenacted in Canada. Compares theories and models of policy

Courses Taught b y Centre Faculty

and decision making to illustrate the special requirements ofthe Canadian environment, and examines the roles of variousparticipants in the process. Instructors: Catherine Leviten-Reid and Peter Phillips

Public Policy +%#-&: Qualitative Methodsand Research Design

Examines the inquiry processes for conducting qualitativeresearch, including issues, collection methods, analysis, andhow to combine qualitative and quantitative data. Instructor: Catherine Leviten-Reid

Public Policy +&#-': Decision Making in OrganizationsExamines the manner in which decisions are made in organi-zations, with a particular focus on policy. Uses a variety ofbehavioral theories such as policy traps, framing, unwarrantedoptimism, and group think. Instructor: Murray Fulton

Public Policy +'$-&: Social Economy and Public PolicyCourse focuses on how nonprofits, community-based organi-zations, and co-operatives interplay with the public policies ofdifferent levels of government. Looks at how the social eco-nomy is funded, evaluated, and held accountable, as well as atcommunity capacity building and partnership development.Includes a field trip and guest lectures from both researchersand practitioners. Instructor: Catherine Leviten-Reid

Sociology "#'-&: Rural SociologyAnalysis of social change in rural areas with emphasis on linksbetween the social organization of resource-based industriesand the social characteristics of rural communities. Focus ismainly rural Canada, but also considers international ruraldevelopment issues. Instructor: Michael Gertler

Sociology "#)-&: The CommunityExamines communities as forms of social organization,and community as a particular kind of social relationship.Through research problems and case studies, examines power,politics, and resistance in contemporary communities.Instructor: Michael Gertler

Sociology &+)-&: Selected Topics in Caribbean Sociology:Cuba, Revolution, and Social Change

Provides an intensive, insider introduction to Cuba and itsunique social, economic and political revolution. Courseincludes daily field trips to places such as museums and his-torical sites, community-based organizations, and organicurban farms. Lecture topics include Cuban history and revo-lution, rural life and agriculture, women in Cuban society,Afro-Cuban traditions, and contemporary transformationsin Cuban society. Instructors: Michael Gertler and RodolfoPino

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S e l e c t e d C e n t r e P u b l i c a t i o n s Occasional Paper SeriesFinancing Aboriginal Enterprise Development: The Potential of

Using Co-operative Models. Lou Hammond Ketilson andKimberly Brown (2009, 92pp. $12)

The Agriculture of the Middle Initiative: Pre-mobilizing Con-siderations and Formal Co-operative Structure. ThomasGray (2008, 60 pp. $10)

Social Cohesion through Market Democratization: AlleviatingLegitimation Deficits through Co-operation. RobertDobrohoczki (2007, 68pp. $10)

The Case of the Saint-Camille Care and Services SolidarityCo-operative and Its Impact on Social Cohesion. GenevièveLanglois and Patrick De Bortoli (2006, 96pp. $10)

Data Collection in the Co-operative Sector and Other BusinessStatistics in Canada and the United States. Angela Wagnerand Cristine de Clercy (2006, 224pp. $25)

“Canada’s Co-operative Province”: Individualism andMutualism in a Settler Society, 1905–2005. Brett Fairbairn(2005, 76pp. $12)

Co-operatives and Farmers in the New Agriculture. MurrayFulton and Kim Sanderson (2003, 60pp. $10)

Adult Educators in Co-operative Development: Agents ofChange. Brenda Stefanson (2002, 102pp. $12)

“An Educational Institute of Untold Value”: The Evolution ofthe Co-operative College of Canada, 1953–1987. Jodi Crewe(2001, 66pp. $10)

Research Reports (available on website and in our library)

Portrait of Community Resilience of Sault Ste. Marie. JudeOrtiz and Linda Savory-Gordon (2010, 80pp.)

Building Community: Creating Social and Economic Well-Being: A Conference Reflecting on Co-operative Strategiesand Experiences. Conference report prepared by MarkMcCulloch (2010, 60pp.)

Municipal Government Support of the Social Economy Sector.Jenny Kain, Emma Sharkey, and Robyn Webb (2010, 96pp.)

Community-Based Planning: Engagement, Collaboration, andMeaningful Participation in the Creation of NeighbourhoodPlans. Karin Kliewer (2010, 72pp.)

Self-Determination in Action: The Entrepreneurship of theSaskatchewan Northern Trappers Association Co-operative.Dwayne Pattison and Isobel Findlay (2010, 79pp.)

Adult Education and the Social Economy: The CommunitarianPedagogy of Watson Thomson. Michael Chartier (2 0 1 0, 1 1 4 p p.)

Eat Where You Live: Building a Social Economy of Local Foodin Western Canada. Joel Novek and Cara Nichols (2010,72pp.)

Exploring Key Informants’ Experiences with Self-DirectedFunding. Nicola S. Chopin and Isobel M. Findlay (2010,122pp.)

South Bay Park Rangers Employment Project for Persons Livingwith a Disability: A Case Study in Individual Empowermentand Community Interdependence. I. Findlay, J. Bidonde,M. Basualdo, and A. McMurtry (2009, 46pp.)

Enabling Policy Environments for Co-operative Development: AComparative Experience. M. Juarez Adeler (2009, 42pp.)

Culture, Creativity, and the Arts: Achieving CommunityResilience and Sustainability through the Arts in Sault Ste.Marie. Jude Ortiz and Gayle Broad (2009, 133pp.)

Northern Ontario Women’s Economic Development ConferenceReport. Prepared by the PARO Centre for Women’sEnterprise (2009, 66pp.)

The Role of Co-operatives in Health Care: National andInternational Perspectives. Proceedings of an InternationalHealth Conference, Saskatoon, 30 October 2008. CatherineLeviten-Reid, ed. (2009, 23pp.)

The Importance of Policy for Community Economic Develop-ment: A Case Study of the Manitoba Context. B. Reimer, D.Simpson, J. Hajer, and J. Loxley (2009, 48pp.)

Evaluation of Saskatoon Urban Aboriginal Strategy. CaraSpence and Isobel Findlay (2008, 44pp.)

Urban Aboriginal Strategy Funding Database. Karen Lynch,Cara Spence, and Isobel Findlay (2008, 22pp.)

Social Enterprises and the Ontario Disability Support Program:A Policy Perspective on Employing Persons with Disabilities.Gayle Broad and Madison Saunders (2008, 41pp.)

A New Vision for Saskatchewan: Changing Lives and Systemsthrough Individualized Funding for People with IntellectualDisabilities. K. Lynch and I. Findlay (2008, 138pp.)

Community Supported Agriculture: Putting the “Culture” Backinto Agriculture. Miranda Mayhew, Cecilia Fernandez, andLee-Ann Chevrette (2008, 10pp.)

Algoma Central Railway: Wilderness Tourism by RailOpportunity Study. Malone Given Parsons Ltd. for theCoalition for Algoma Passenger Trains (2008, 82pp.)

Recovery of the Collective Memory and Projection into theFuture: ASOPRICOR. Jose Reyes, Janeth Valero, and GayleBroad (2008, 44pp.)

Measuring and Mapping the Impact of Social EconomyEnterprises: The Role of Co-ops in Community PopulationGrowth. Chipo Kangayi, Rose Olfert, and Mark Partridge(2008, 42pp.)

Financing Social Enterprise: An Enterprise Perspective. WandaWuttunee, Martin Chicilo, Russ Rothney, and Lois Gray(2008, 32pp.)

Financing Social Enterprise: A Scan of Financing Providers inthe Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Northwestern OntarioRegion. Wanda Wuttunee, Russ Rothney, and Lois Gray(2008, 39pp.)

Government Policies towards Community EconomicDevelopment and the Social Economy in Quebec and

Manitoba. John Loxley and Dan Simpson (2008, 66pp.)Growing Pains: Social Enterprise in Saskatoon’s Core

Neighbourhoods. Mitch Diamantopoulos and IsobelFindlay (2008, 70pp.)

Books and Other PublicationsWalking Backwards into the Future. George Melnyk (2009, 6 x

9, 22pp. $5)Co-operative Youth Education in Saskatchewan: Co-op Schools

and the Saskatchewan Co-operative Youth Program.Chassidy Puchala and Breeann Heggie (2009, 130pp. $20)

The Social Economy in Quebec: Lessons and Challenges forInternationalizing Co-operation. Marguerite Mendell (2008,6 x 9, 30pp. $5)

Between Solidarity and Profit: The Agricultural TransformationSocieties in Spain (1940–2000). Cándido Román Cervantes(2007, 6 x 9, 26pp. $5)

Co-operative Membership: Issues and Challenges. Bill Turner(2006, 16pp. $5)

Innovations in Co-operative Marketing and Communications.Leslie Brown (2006, 26pp. $5)

Cognitive Processes and Co-operative Business Strategy. MurrayFulton and Julie Gibbings (2006, 22pp. $5)

Co-operative Heritage: Where We’ve Come From. BrettFairbairn (2006, 18pp. $5)

Co-operative Membership as a Complex and Dynamic SocialProcess. Michael Gertler (2006, 28pp. $5)

Cohesion, Adhesion, and Identities in Co-operatives. BrettFairbairn (2006, 42pp. $5)

Revisiting the Role of Co-operative Values and Principles: DoThey Act to Include or Exclude? Lou Hammond Ketilson(2006, 22pp. $5)

Co-operative Social Responsibility: A Natural Advantage?Andrea Harris (2006, 30pp. $5)

Globalization and Co-operatives. Will Coleman (2006, 24pp. $5)Leadership and Representational Diversity. Cristine de Clercy

(2006, 20pp. $5)Synergy and Strategic Advantage: Co-operatives and Sustainable

Development. Michael Gertler (2006, 16pp. $5)Farmers’ Association Training Materials (part of the China-

Canada Agriculture Development Program). RogerHerman and Murray Fulton (2006, 134pp., available on website)

International Seminar on Legislation for Farmer Co-operativesin China: A Canadian Perspective. Daniel Ish, Bill Turner,and Murray Fulton (2006, 22pp., available on website)

Living the Dream: Membership and Marketing in the Co-op-erative Retailing System. Brett Fairbairn (2004, 288pp. $20)

Building a Dream: The Co-operative Retailing System in West-ern Canada, 1928–1988. Brett Fairbairn (2004, 352pp. $20)

Cohesion, Consumerism, and Co-operatives: Looking ahead forthe Co-operative Retailing System. Brett Fairbairn (2004,

26pp. $5)

Co-operative Membership and Globalization: New Directions inResearch and Practice. Brett Fairbairn and Nora Russell,eds. (2004, 320pp. $20)

Three Strategic Concepts for the Guidance of Co-operatives:Linkage, Transparency, and Cognition. Brett Fairbairn(2003, 38pp. $5)

The Role of Farmers in the Future Economy. Brett Fairbairn(2003, 22pp. $5)

Up a Creek with a Paddle: Excellence in the Boardroom.Ann Hoyt (2003, 26pp. $5)

A Report on Aboriginal Co-operatives in Canada: CurrentSituation and Potential for Growth. Lou HammondKetilson and Ian MacPherson (2002, 400pp. $35)

Against All Odds: Explaining the Exporting Success of theDanish Pork Co-operatives. Jill Hobbs (2001, 40pp. $5)

Rural Co-operatives and Sustainable Development. MichaelGertler (2001, 36pp. $5)

An Economic Impact Analysis of the Co-operative Sector inSaskatchewan: Update 1998. Roger Herman and MurrayFulton (2001, 64pp., available on our website)

Interdisciplinarity and the Transformation of the University.Brett Fairbairn and Murray Fulton (2000, 48pp. $5)

The CUMA Farm Machinery Co-operatives. Andrea Harris andMurray Fulton (2000, 46pp. $5)

Farm Machinery Co-operatives in Saskatchewan and Québec.Andrea Harris and Murray Fulton (2000, 42pp. $5)

Farm Machinery Co-operatives: An Idea Worth Sharing.Andrea Harris and Murray Fulton (2000, 48pp. $5)

Canadian Co-operatives in the Year 2000: Memory, Mutual Aid,and the Millennium. Brett Fairbairn, Ian MacPherson, andNora Russell (2000, 356pp. $20)

Prairie Connections and Reflections: The History, Present, andFuture of Co-operative Education. Brett Fairbairn (1999,30pp. $5)

A Car-Sharing Co-operative in Winnipeg: Recommendationsand Alternatives. David Leland (1999, 26pp. $5)

The SANASA Model: Co-operative Development through Micro-Finance. Ingrid Fischer, Lloyd Hardy, Daniel Ish, and IanMacPherson (1999, 6 x 9, 80pp. $10)

Networking for Success: Strategic Alliances in the New Agricul-ture. Mona Holmlund and Murray Fulton (1999, 48pp. $5)

Balancing Act: Crown Corporations in a Successful Economy.Brett Fairbairn (1997, 16pp. $5)

Credit Unions and Community Economic Development. BrettFairbairn, Lou Hammond Ketilson, and Peter Krebs (1997,32pp. $5)

New Generation Co-operatives: Responding to Changes inAgriculture. Brenda Stefanson and Murray Fulton (1997,

16pp. $5)Making Membership Meaningful: Participatory Democracy in

Co-operatives. The International Joint Project on Co-operative Democracy (1995, 356pp. $20)

New Generation Co-operatives: Rebuilding Rural Economies.Brenda Stefanson, Murray Fulton, and Andrea Harris(1995, 24pp. $5)

These publications are all available for sale directly from theCentre. Please contact us at the address on the inside frontcover. Many of these publications are also available online atwww.usaskstudies.coop/publications/index.html.

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