International Recognition for your Values-Based Business
2011 Awards Presentation - 18 November 2011
ICA General Assembly
Cancun, Mexico
2011 dotCoop Global Award Winners Announced
On 5 October, dotCoop announced the winners of
the 2011 dotCoop Global Awards for Cooperative
Excellence. Honorable Mentions were awarded in
each category as well because of the number of outstanding
entries.
Large Cooperatives
La Equidad Seguros
Organismo Cooperativo is an insurance cooperative in Colombia
formed by two companies - La Equidad Seguros Generales and La
Equidad Seguros de Vida. With more than 1,500,000 members, La
Equidad Seguros OC was the winner in the category of large
cooperatives with more than US$50 million in revenue or assets.
Honorable Mention
CAC Dr. Manuel Zeno
Gandia (Puerto Rico)
CROPP Cooperative
(Organic Valley & Organic Prairie brands) (United States)
Medium Cooperatives
The Malaysian National
Cooperative Movement (ANGKASA) provides services to the members
of the over 4,000 Malaysian cooperatives including insurance,
educational loans and scholarships and an Islamic financial
cooperative. ANGKASA was the winner in the medium category of
cooperatives with between US$1 and $50 million in revenue or
assets.
Honorable Mention
First Alternative
Cooperative (United States)
Rung'eto Farmers
Co-operative Society Limited (Kenya)
Small Cooperatives
The Co-operative Press - s.coop
won in the category of small cooperatives with less than $1 million
in revenue or assets. Presented a Special Recognition award in the
2009 competition, the Cooperative Press is an active participant in
promoting cooperatives both in the UK and globally. The
s.coop application has provided more than 162,000 short links which
have been accessed by over 2.4 million people raising the profile
of cooperatives around the world.
Honorable Mention
Café l'Artère (Canada)
Atrium São Paulo
Cooperativa de Profissionais de Informática e Assessoria
Técnica (Brazil)
Cooperative Organizations
In our new category for cooperative organizations, the Cooperativa Central de Crédito
Urbano of Brazil was the winner. CECRED works to
integrate, monitor and support the development of credit
cooperatives in Brazil as well as to develop and improve products
and services to meet the needs of its cooperative members.
Honorable Mention
Canadian Co-operative
Association (Canada)
Singapore National Co-operative
Federation (Singapore)
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The dotCoop Global Awards for Cooperative
Excellence have been created to recognize the application of
cooperative values and principles to drive cooperative and business
success. DotCooperation LLC
(dotCoop), the sponsor of the .coop Internet domain, is proud to
reward these cooperative leaders.
The
Awards seek to encourage cooperatives from all sectors to
examine their processes in order to compete for the award and will
provide other cooperatives the opportunity to understand how
cooperatives can best use their differences to positively impact
their business and their communities.
Does your cooperative strive to keep cooperative values a part
of its business planning? If so, this is your chance to gain
international recognition among the business and cooperative
community for your focus and to use that recognition to promote
your co-op and cooperative principles to potential members and the
general community. This is especially important as the cooperative
community looks forward to the UN 2012 International Year of
Cooperatives.
You're ready to be recognized like our 2009 winners!
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