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.
History of US Quidditch. Quidditch was founded in 2005 at Middlebury College by then-freshman Xander Manshel. Looking for a variation on their normal Sunday activities, Manshel and his friends laid the foundation for a game that has grown in leaps and bounds to become a widely respected, physically intense sport.
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.