NCBA Veterans Initiative Offers Opportunity for Jobs
Association to Offer Training to Transitioning Service Members
(firmenpresse) - WASHINGTON, DC -- (Marketwire) -- 11/08/12 -- The National Cooperative Business Association, the US national association for cooperative business enterprise, announced today an initiative that will support transitioning and disabled veterans. According to the Small Business Administration, veterans are at least 45 percent more likely to be self-employed than those with no active-duty military experience. NCBA's Veterans Initiative will offer transitioning service members the opportunity to learn about the cooperative business model as they consider entrepreneurial civilian career opportunities.
"After the service they have provided to our nation, our veterans need real opportunities for employment -- ones that capitalize on their skills and recognize their independent spirit," said NCBA interim Chief Executive Officer Liz Bailey. "Cooperative enterprise enables transitioning veterans to be small business owners in a way that reduces risk and maximizes the sustainability of the business. During the economic recession, cooperative businesses were more resilient, demonstrating the strength of the business model."
Initially, NCBA's Veteran's Initiative will focus on introducing veterans to two types of cooperatives: worker-owned and purchasing/shared services co-ops. Worker cooperatives create long-term, stable jobs and provide their members with an ownership stake in a business enterprise without all the risk associated with going into business as a sole proprietor. Purchasing and shared services cooperatives enable those who choose to start a small business with the price advantages of group buying power.
The November 2012 issue of Entrepreneur magazine touts the benefits of purchasing cooperatives, noting that cooperatives like Ace Hardware and CarpetOne offer independent business owners the benefits of group buying and a brand identity without the rigidity of a franchise.
"Cooperatives provide real jobs in the United States and represent real opportunity for those affected by hard economic times to take control of their needs," said Bailey. "Cooperatives operate in all sectors of the economy, with more than 29,000 cooperatives doing business throughout the United States, generating 2 million jobs each year and contributing $652 billion in annual sales. Our transitioning service men and women deserve to know how they can be member-owners of cooperative enterprises, and this initiative will do just that."
NCBA's Veterans Initiative also will celebrate what the cooperative community already is doing to hire veterans and encourage cooperatives to hire transitioning service members whose skills are well suited to their businesses. Through the program, cooperative will have the opportunity to learn to mentor transitioning service members who choose to become member-owners of cooperative enterprises.
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Founded in 1916, NCBA's mission is to develop, advance and protect cooperative businesses and to demonstrate the power of the cooperative business model to achieve economic and social impacts. As the apex organization representing the interests of the US cooperative community, NCBA's portfolio includes programs and services that meet the shared advocacy, education and communications needs of a cross-sector US cooperative community that includes agriculture, child and home care, energy and telecommunications, insurance and financial services, food distribution, healthcare, housing, and wholesale and retail purchasing and distribution. In addition to its work domestically, NCBA's CLUSA International program has been engaged in cooperative and sustainable business development in over 100 countries for close to 60 years. The current CLUSA portfolio includes over 20 development projects in 15 countries.
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In 2012, NCBA has led the US observance of International Year of Cooperatives (IYC), the worldwide observance that was initiated by the United Nations to acknowledge the critical role cooperatives play in global community and economic development. As part of that observance, NCBA has coordinated a nationwide grassroots public awareness campaign and, in May of 2012, brought 150 US cooperative leaders to the White House to engage in an historic open dialogue with senior Obama Administration and federal agency officials on a range of key issues.
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