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Dixie Electric Cooperative (DEC) will partner with NewCooperativeBank, a New York City-based cooperative bank, to expand the Cooperative Banking initiative and its banking offerings.The partnership is a result of the efforts of the Dixie Energy Cooperative Bank and the Cooperative Bank of Northampton, the latter of which has been working closely with DEC since 2017…

In its inaugural year, Cooperativo San Rafael was the first cooperative in the world to sell coffee directly to customers, which meant the coffee beans were the responsibility of the owner rather than the farmer.“We are the first co-op in the United States that is offering coffee directly from the farmers,” co-founder and director David…