Cooperative History
This city is considered the birthplace of the first modern cooperative, founded in 1844 by a group of weavers.
What is Rochdale?
These types of electric utilities are owned by the consumers they serve.
What are electric cooperatives?
This is the term for an organization owned and operated by its members for mutual benefit.
What is a cooperative?
This is how you are involved in your local electric cooperative. (Hint: This is why you are able to attend YLC)
What is recieving power from your local electric cooperative?
$250, $500, or $1000 can be obtained from the completion of this.
What is the WECA essay scholarship?
These principles later evolve into the seven principles. They are the first set of guidelines for running cooperatives.
What are the "Rochdale Principles"?
Most electric co-ops in the U.S. serve customers in these kinds of areas.
What are rural areas?
This is the minimum number of cooperative principles recognized internationally.
What is seven?
Co-ops never make a profit. Anything that would have been deemed profitable, gets sent back here.
What is the local community? (Members is also accepted)
We are the people to help run this camp. Last year, we were just like you.
Who are the Youth Board members?
This is the exact date the first electric co-op opened.
What is Dec. 21, 1844?
Electric cooperatives were largely developed thanks to this 1935 federal program.
What is the Rural Electrification Administration (REA)?
Unlike corporations, cooperatives focus on this rather than maximizing profit.
What is serving members’ needs (or people over profit)?
The name of this sub division of the financial co-op is a great way to bank by saving money from fees
What is a credit union?
The one to do it all! This person organizes everything you are seeing here today with the assistance of the fellow shaparones and Youth Board members.
Who is Tina?
Cooperatives are formed by a common dilemma, this is how the first electric co-op started.
What are greedy corparations? (Will accept increase in automated labor or poor conditions)
This national association represents electric co-ops in the United States.
What is the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)?
The legal structure of a co-op typically requires members to have this level of ownership.
What is equal (or one member, one vote)?
Cooperatives often support these local places by sourcing products from nearby.
What are local farms or businesses?
It is easy peasy! Get some signatures, take an interview, and get some votes and these are the few steps it takes.
What is how to become a Youth Board member?
The name of the group that formed the first cooperative, known as the "Rochdale Pioneers."
Who are the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers?
A major difficulty/obstacle electric co-ops face due to low population density.
What is high infrastructure cost (or fewer customers per mile of line)?
Cooperatives return profits to members in this form.
What are patronage dividends (or capital credits)?
Name 3 different types of cooperatives. (Hint: Electric is a sub class of one of these types)
What are orker, producer, consumer, utility, retail, housing?
Out of all the Youth Board members, this one is by far, the best. (Must say first AND last name)
Who is Dillan Sztuczko