About Us

The Georgia Resource Conservation and Development Council, in cooperation with the University of Georgia's Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development established the Georgia Cooperative Development Center through a Rural Cooperative Development Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture on October 1, 2004. This Center is committed to helping groups in rural Georgia find ways to increase their profits from current and new activities by working together in cooperatives to add value to their products and services. The Center provides the guidance and consulting necessary to help ensure that these groups become profitable, functioning cooperatives.  The Center was one of only 24 that were selected from across the nation to receive the grant from USDA.

The Center will serve all the citizens of Georgia but our focus is on the economically depressed sections of rural Georgia.  More information on the GCDC can be obtained through your local Cooperative Extension Service Agent or your RC&D Council.

  

Members of the Georgia RC&D Council receive the ceremonial "Big Check" from USDA Rural Development State Director Stone Workman. From left to right are: Jeanette Jamieson, President Georgia RC&D Council, H. Joe Nichols, President, Golden Triangle RC&D, John McKissick, Director, UGA-CAED, Leonard Jordan, USDA NRCS State Conservationist, Jerome Brown, Coordinator, Golden Triangle RC&D, and Stone Workman, State Director, USDA Rural Development;