Welcome to the Minnesota Service Cooperatives
The Minnesota Service Cooperatives (MSC) is a Joint Powers organization comprised of Minnesota’s individual regional service cooperatives. MSC, harnessing the collective effort and energy of all nine member organizations, is well positioned to convene and assemble strategic partnerships to solve problems and implement statewide initiatives.
The nine educational service agencies are geographically distributed across the state and serve members in their respective areas. Each agency has a unique understanding of the strengths and needs of their members and use these insights to positively impact and improve outcomes.
MSC MISSION: We provide programs and services through unique and collaborative partnerships.
MSC VISION: We are the regional delivery system for school districts, governmental agencies and nonprofits in Minnesota.
MSC PHILOSOPHY: We believe that the participating Minnesota Service Cooperatives, through our collaborative endeavors, are best positioned to deliver the highest quality programs and services to our members.
The Minnesota Service Cooperatives:
- Identify and analyze service opportunities and needs for our members.
- Provide advice to state policy makers on the needs, priorities, and system of accountability for local education programs and other governmental agencies.
- Present and serve exclusively the participating service cooperatives and their members interests.
- Facilitate interagency collaboration in the delivery of programs. Promote development of services and programs to children and members, among state and local education and general government agencies.
- Develop policy to fit service needs and issues. Anticipate future trends in the needs of members and help develop policies and services to accommodate the needs and issues. Bring staff expertise to bear on major issues and problems.
- Utilize the program and technical expertise of service cooperative personnel through collaboration and cooperation.
- Continue the support and development of regional service cooperative staff. Encourage internal staff development in recruitment, orientation, training, and in new techniques.
- Provide support for the successful operations of each service cooperative through regional service delivery.
- Encourage Program Delivery. Members may work together to provide collaborative programs or services to their members, in accordance with their enabling statue, M.S. 123A.21, subd. 7.
- Act as a Liaison. Encourage, support and foster effective working relationships with national and state organizations including the Legislative, Executive and Administrative bodies.
Strategic Framework
MSC adopted a strategic framework in 2020. In 2022, MSC hired the first Statewide Executive Director, and took the opportunity to review and update the framework, which was approved by the MSC Executive Board in January 2023.
MSC Governing Board
The Minnesota Service Cooperatives Board of Directors is comprised of two board members from each member service cooperative.
- BrightWorks - Bill Harvey & Carol Bomben
- Lakes Country Service Cooperative - Suzanne Wing & Reed Reinbold
- Northeast Service Cooperative - John Berklich & Julie Peterson
- Northwest Service Cooperative - Ann Long-Voelkner & Sally Roller
- Resource Training & Solutions - Ken Anderson & Mike Thompson
- Sourcewell - Sharon Thiel & Greg Zylka
- South Central Service Cooperative - Keith Wenner & Jodi Sapp
- Southeast Service Cooperative - Brein (Bree) Maki & Jean Roth
- SWWC Service Cooperative - Steve Schnieder & Matt Coleman