2023 CO-OPS AND CREDIT UNIONS - REPORT FROM THE BOARD ROOM

The median age was fifty-eight, and less than 10 percent of the board members in the co-ops surveyed were under the age of forty. [...] Moreover, 99 percent of concerns of the members it serves, and it reflects respondents reported that their board chair is not the increasingly diverse communities in which the CEO of the co-operative. [...] The second most popular The participating co-ops had an average of strategy is to encourage members of specific three CEOs in the past twenty years and, on groups to run for the board16; almost two-thirds average, one of them was hired from outside the of the respondents apply this approach. [...] However, the median duration of a board meeting was less than the average, Over the past twelve months, 55 percent of suggesting that the longer meetings in the sample respondents (n=43) reported that their board of were skewing the average higher (table 12). [...] Wynyard Community Clinic Conexus Credit Union Lake Country Co-operative Associa-tion Limited 22 ABOUT THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR THE OUR FUNDERS STUDY OF CO-OPERATIVES The Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives (CCSC) and The Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives (CCSC) is the University of Saskatchewan acknowledge with gratitude an interdisciplinary research and teaching centre loca.