The most pressing problems facing society are not moral, but institutional. When people are enabled to work together toward a common goal, they can change the world.

Our research supports the building of policies, practices, and organizations that enable communities to create their own rules and meet their own needs.

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Foster your skills in co-operative governance with the Advanced Co-operative Governance Program

This online program gives directors the knowledge and understanding to govern their co-operatives with confidence. The next offering of the program has been announced for January, 2025. 

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Join us for our next Co-op Conversation, "Farmer Stress, Co-op Members, Problematic Solidarity, and Recommendations from Dairy" featuring Dr. Thomas W. Gray

Our next Co-op Conversation takes place on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, from 12:00 - 1:00 PM (Saskatchewan time). It will feature Dr. Thomas W. Gray, Rural Sociologist with the Rural Business-Cooperative Service at the United States Department of Agriculture and a Research Fellow at the Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives.

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Join us for the 2024 Fredeen Lecture featuring Eylin Jorge Coto

The annual online Fredeen Lecture features the research of the most recent recipient of the Hartley and Margaret Fredeen Scholarship in Co-operative Studies. This year's lecture is titled, "Analysis of the Government Relations between Credit Unions and Farm Credit Canada". The lecture takes place online on Wednesday, November 27, from 1 - 2 PM (Saskatchewan time). 

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