PolicyLink, a non-profit dedicated to fostering best practices and cultivating resources for buillding social capital and social enterprise, surveys financing and ownership models for cooperatives. This guide links many other organizations and programs for specific help.

Throughout my life i've read in the paper stories i also from the inside. Mostly they get gist right but in many instances they get details wrong. Having written for the Black Rock Beacon for six years and served as News Editor for three, i keep my eyes out for getting things right and even go back after publication to check. Happily, this article gets things right, but also, much has changed in the past year. Perhaps time is due for another article. Only City News has yet to visit and write an article. You'd think, given their scope, audience, and political leanings, they'd have been first.

An index and sections 1–134 of the Cooperative Corporations Law in New York state: unfortunately each sections opens in its own page, even though some sections are just one sentence.