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.
In March, US Quidditch is incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. The first-ever meeting of USQ board of directors takes place in May. In November, 46 teams compete in World Cup IV in Manhattan, the first world cup tournament to be held away from the Middlebury campus.