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Helping transform
Lives and communities
through cooperative
enterprise.
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"Ultimately the manufactured home residents came together to create this cooperative, but it was with the guidance of NCF that we were able to make this community purchase happen." -Brandon, Bennett Park Cooperative
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Northcountry Cooperative Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides education, technical assistance,
services and programs to cooperative organizations. In all of our work, we seek to work with people to build
organizations that are enduring, co-ops that serve generation after generation of member-owners. To do this,
we offer an array of services that support, encourage and assist cooperative enterprises at whatever stage of
their development, providing resources for community self-help.
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Since 2002, we have focused on working with residents in manufactured home communities to assist them to
become resident-owned. Manufactured housing is the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the
state — housing six percent of Minnesota families. As a ROC USA™ Certified Technical Assistance Provider,
we provide cooperative Board training, real estate development services and on-going technical assistance to
the homeowners to successfully own and operate their manufactured home communities. Check out this local news
story featuring homeowners at one of NCF’s most recent cooperative conversion projects.
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Since our inception, NCF has provided training and educational programming to over 400 co-op members
representing over 30 cooperatives. Our award winning Traveling Cooperative Institute (TCI) has been
influential in providing training to small, rural food and housing cooperatives in Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Iowa. We coordinate with industry experts to ensure participating cooperatives obtain continuing
education, one of the principles shared by all cooperatives.
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