• Set up ad hoc committees to distribute the workload among the members of the temporary board of directors. For example:
  • planning committee
  • training committee
  • committee to draft by-laws.
• Decide on the association's structure and define the various categories of members, if necessary (consumers, suppliers, workers).
• Determine the roles and responsibilities of the various democratic bodies (general meeting, board of directors, committees).
• Establish the articles and by-laws.
• Recruit members.
• Organize a program to train members in the administration and management of a co-operative, the chairing and running of annual meetings (e.g. "parliamentary procedure"), and the operation of a committee or board.

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