Center for Cooperative Principles

About the Center for Cooperative Principles

The Center for Cooperative Principles, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is a global, educational organization. Through modeling cooperation, and educating about how to create positive relationships that meet all needs and bring out the best in everyone, we are nurturing the seeds of unity in consciousness.

Establishing new ways of being in our individual and collective lives requires a vision that serves as a blueprint and the tools with which to build a new way of life. In this time of transition, there is much that we can do together to open hearts, illumine understanding, inspire goodwill and empower cooperation.

Principles of Cooperation

Unity ∞ Freedom ∞ Goodwill

Unity, our sense of interconnection and belonging, is the core of all relationships in life. Freedom is the capacity to be our best and to honor and bring out the best in others. Goodwill is our intention to act in direct relation to the well being of all. The Center for Cooperative Principles nurtures and promotes the awareness and application of these principles in life.

Board of Directors

Patricia A. Roeding, M.A. - President and Executive Director
Reverend Patricia A. Roeding, M.A., seeks to anchor and express the essence of the Human Spirit within relationships, work and Life. She is founder and President of Transpersonal Education Resources, LLC. Patty served as Education Director for the Peace Alliance and Peace Alliance Foundation providing training and support for the US campaign for a Department of Peace and educating towards a Culture of Peace. She was a founding member of the Vermont Peace Academy. As the Director of Children’s Programs at the Institute for Visionary Leadership, Patty created a children’s spiritual education program based on service, shared leadership and peace. An educator at the elementary through college level, Patty also works with youth and adults in the areas of spirituality, conflict transformation and peace education.

Gina M. Biel - Treasurer
Gina M. Biel has more than ten years of management accounting experience within both the private and public sectors. In the past she has held several positions within organizations such as controller, financial reporting manager and is currently the Accounting Manager for Albridge Solutions Inc. Gina holds a BS from East Stroudsburg University and is studying towards a Masters of Accounting Degree. She serves in her work to maintain integrity of accounting principles and practices within organizations. Gina’s mission is to reveal the truth through following legal and ethical guidelines, in order to create a healthy organization and keep it thriving. Through her work Gina empowers wise decisions, supports the organization in serving its mission, and fulfills public trust.

Dorothy J. Maver, Ph. D. - Secretary
Dorothy J Maver, Ph.D. is an educator and peacebuilder whose keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Her work in education, politics and grassroots community organizing is focused on applied peacebuilding and the global call for ministries and departments of peace. Dot is presently the President/CEO of Peace Partnership International. Dot served as Executive Director of the Peace Alliance and Campaign for a US Department of Peace and was the National Campaign Manager for Kucinich for President 2004. She is a co-founder of the Vermont Peace Academy. In the world of fast-pitch softball Dr. Dot is known for her revolutionary fast-pitch hitting technique, The Maver Method: Secrets of Hitting Success. She is also co-author of the book Conscious Education: The Bridge to Freedom.