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Supportive environment

Sound advance planning

Real economic benefits for members

Skilled management

Belief in co-op concepts

Grassroots development and leadership

Financially self-sustaining

Innovation and adaptation

Effective structure and operations

Networking with other co-ops

Communications

Common member interests

Education

Co-ops, much more than corporations, closely reflect the lives and thoughts of the member-owners. If the common interests of the members and the interests of the co-op move apart, the co-op dies.