This school year, I was introduced to an educational resource that has proven invaluable: The Homeschool Buyer’s Coop. This is a purchasing cooperative for homeschooling families. One family started this co-op so that individual homeschooling families could gain the purchasing power of a larger group. Similar to a school district, their size allows this coop to offer group buys, exclusive member discounts, and even free curriculum. They maintain a fabulous internet database. Additional opportunities provided by the co-op include contests and scholarships, money saving tips, and free classifieds for members.
There is no cost associated with becoming a member of the co-op. The coop is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making homeschooling affordable. They are supported primarily by advertising. The strength of the coop can be found in the number of families that belong to it. As they gain members, the coop is able to provide additional opportunities and services to the homeschooling community.
I have found The Homeschool Buyer’s Coop to be a terrific resource. You can find more terrific tips and ideas over at Rocks In My Dryer’s Works For Me Wednesday.
“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self–never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted.” – George Eliot
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This sounds great. I am going to check it out. Thank you.
O.K. I haven’t heard of a buyer’s co op. You have all of these resources!
thanks for the sweet comment your cake in your previous post looks so good!
Very cool design! Useful information. Go on!