dotCoop Announces Global Awards for Co-operative Excellence
DotCoop is pleased to announce the first ever dotCoop Global Awards
for Co-operative Excellence to be awarded at the 2009 ICA General
Assembly in November.
Recognition for Values-Based Businesses
The dotCoop Global Awards for Cooperative Excellence will
recognize the application of cooperative values and principles to
drive cooperative and business success. The award will be given to
three co-operatives at each ICA General Assembly.
The award criteria seeks to encourage cooperatives from all
sectors to examine their processes in order to compete for the
award and will provide other cooperatives the opportunity to
understand how cooperatives can use their differences to impact
their business and their communities.
Awards will be categorized so that cooperatives of different sizes
and from different sectors and locations will be able to compete
successfully for the recognition to be accorded to the Award
winners.
This award will focus on cooperatives as businesses that are
successful because they
are cooperatives.
Award Criteria
- Identify activities of your cooperative that highlight your
understanding and inclusion of cooperative values and principles*
in your business activities.
- Identify and describe specific business practices that
contribute to your success that are enabled by the cooperative
business structure.
- Identify and describe initiatives that your cooperative has
undertaken that have allowed it to successfully address cooperative
business structure differences.
- Identify how your cooperative uses the .coop domain and the
Internet and other technologies to enhance your cooperative and
business successes.
- Identify how your cooperative has used tools such as the .coop
domain and other Internet and media tools to promote cooperatives
and your cooperative identity to your members and the general
public.
* See the International Co-operative Alliance
Cooperative Values and Principles.
For each Criterion, co-ops will be asked to provide the
following:
- A brief description of the items related to the criteria that
will be used as part of the winning submission.
- A more detailed review of how each cited item supports the
achievement of the award criteria by your cooperative
- Materials that support the impact of each item on the success
of your cooperative and achievement of the award criteria. These
can be documents, financial reports, press and media information
relating to the item as well as multi-media items such as podcasts,
web sites, etc. that can be identified via links and or attachments
during submission.
Submission Process
- Submissions will be accepted starting on 1 January 2009.
- All submissions will be made through our award web site. For
up-to-date information, check the www.coop
site.
- Promotional materials including photos, web sites links and
other media products are encouraged as part of submissions.
- The current submission deadline is 31 May 2009 to be eligible
for the Global Awards to be presented at the 2009 ICA General
Assembly.
Categories
- Less than USD$1million in revenue or assets
- USD$1million to USD$50 million in revenue or assets
- Greater than USD$50 million revenue or assets Awards
Regional Awards: Regional awards may be given at the discretion of
the Selection Panel. Regional winners will receive a certificate
and recognition from dotCoop and the ICA that will be provided to
local and regional media.
Global Awards: Each global category winner will be provided with
up to $2000 for travel expenses for them to be able to attend the
2009 ICA General Assembly and participate in this international
meeting of co-operative leaders both to share their insights and
learn from other participants.
Award publicity will be provided to the international media along
with web-based media that will be available from the ICA and
dotCoop web sites.
Selection Process
The awards will be selected by an internationally representative
panel drawn from the members of the dotCoop Board of Managers as
well as other volunteers from the global cooperative community.
Questions?
For current information, please contact:
Carolyn T. Hoover, CEO
DotCooperation LLC
1401 New York Avenue, N.W., Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20005 USA
T: +1.202.383.5453
F: +1.202.347.1968
Email: support@nic.coop
Published on 01 December 2008
