# #coop-words

> 11 public memos tagged #coop-words on MythOS.

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## Memos

- [California AB 816](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/411f8d): California AB 816, the California Worker Cooperative Act, is a 2015 California law (Chapter 192, Statutes of 2015) that renamed the state's consumer-cooperative statute the Cooperative Corporation...
- [Governance Systems](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/f4f2b6): Governance systems are the structures and processes by which an organization makes decisions, allocates authority, and holds itself and its people accountable for pursuing its objectives. A...
- [Community Sharecropping](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/90dd91): Community Sharecropping is a term coined by John Zdanowski for growing plants cloned from a single parent plant, each labeled with a friend's name, tended by the grower and handed to that friend at...
- [Community Investor Shares](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/a52343): Community investor shares are a class of shares in a California Worker Cooperative held by people who are not worker-members, giving them an economic stake in the business while leaving control with...
- [Key Changes to the Law](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/51ef25): The key changes to the law made by the California Worker Cooperative Act, California AB 816, turned California's consumer-cooperative statute into a general Cooperative Corporation Law that...
- [Community Investor](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/8970d1): Community investor is a person who is not a worker-member of a worker cooperative but holds a share or other proprietary interest in it, usually by investing capital through Community Investor...
- [Worker-Member](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/73949d): Worker-member is a member of a worker cooperative who is a natural person and whose patronage consists of the labor or other work contributed, giving that person ownership, a vote, and a share of the...
- [Patronage Dividend](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/63aad8): Patronage dividend is a distribution a cooperative makes to its members from net earnings in proportion to each member's business with or work for the cooperative, rather than in proportion to...
- [Why a Co-Op](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/12e6b9): Until 2016, California's cooperative statute was written for consumer cooperatives, which left little room for a worker-owned business to raise outside capital. The California Worker Cooperative Act,...
- [Worker Cooperative](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/a40f8c): Worker cooperative is a business owned and democratically controlled by the people who work in it, with each worker-member holding one vote and sharing in surplus according to the labor contributed....
- [Dynamic Anecdotal Information Network](https://mythos.one/me/johnzdanowski/bb492b): Dynamic Anecdotal Information Network is a phrase coined by Mitch Kessler to describe MythOS: a trusted network in which people communicate through linked, first-hand accounts that keep changing as...