Understanding Cooperatives
Unit 7 - Mini Cooperative Business Experience


Handout 7.11 - Membership Meeting Ideas

  1. Video or PowerPoint presentation relating to cooperatives and business.

  2. Invite local cooperative manager to discuss the duties and responsibilities of being a manager.

  3. Invite director of nearby co-op to discuss the duties and responsibilities of being a director.

  4. Field trips to local businesses (cooperative and/or proprietary).

  5. Work sessions on projects.

  6. Speaker on preparing for a job interview.

  7. Program on careers.

  8. Invite local banker to discuss how to write a check, different types of savings accounts, balancing a checkbook, 
      services provided by banks, how a bank functions, etc.

  9. Program on developing a marketing and advertising program.

 10. Speaker on how new products are developed and test marketed.


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