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REIC Expected Deliverables

The cooperative agreement proposal must address the following deliverables:

1. Development of a methodology for collection and assembly of basic impact data on a periodic basis. This methodology will need to account for cooperative organizational complexity, such as a single organization’s several local, regional and national locations, as well as sector differences.
   
   
2. Application of the developed methodology, by major sector, to collect data and estimate economic impact of cooperatives. Data items to be collected / measured must include:
   
   
   • Number and location of cooperatives,
   • Volume measures appropriate for each sector (revenues, dollar value, and other appropriate size indicators),
   • Number of persons impacted by the cooperative (members, patrons, investors, or other appropriate people indicators), and
   • Number of full time equivalent jobs and other economic impact variables.
   
   Sectors for which summary data should be prepared include:
   
   • Housing,
   • Health care,
   • Daycare/elder care,
   • Financial services,
   • Grocery/consumer retail,
   • Business-to-business (wholesaling, manufacturing),
   • Agricultural marketing (including organic and conventional),
   • Agricultural supplies and services,
   • Public services (including transportation and education), and
   • Utilities.
   
   
3. Creation and population of a database for individual cooperative and summary data collected. Database is to be delivered to USDA Rural Development.
   
   
4. Estimation of cooperative specific community impact multipliers for each of the following four categories or classes of cooperatives: (a) commercial sales or marketing - includes farm supply and marketing, grocery and consumer goods, business-to-business, and manufacturing, (b) social and public services - includes housing, health care, day care/ elder care, transportation, and educational services, (c) financial services – includes credit unions, banks, and mutual insurance, and (d) utilities – includes electric, telephone, water, waste, and other regulated utilities.