A particularly successful form of multi-stakeholder cooperative is the Italian social cooperative, of which some 11,000 exist.  1 Type A social cooperatives bring together providers and beneficiaries of a social service as members.
The sport of Quidditch gets its name from Queerditch Marsh, the location of the first recorded game. A witch by the name of Gertie Keddle lived on the edge of the marsh around the year 1050 and recorded what she saw in a diary that survives to this day.
The group also hosts tournaments and is in charge of the official rulebook. IQA's main goal this semester is to draw a large crowd to the fourth annual Quidditch World Cup, which has moved from Middlebury campus to Dewitt Clinton Park in New York City. As the Nov. 1 deadline approaches, more than 60 teams are already signed up to take the field on Nov. 13 and 14.