Cooperatives are people in the communal, collective arrangements of relationships to meet a common need.  The underlying assumption, as well as the motivation for people to engage in cooperatives, rests on fundamentals principles or factors such as; the Strength of relationship between and among leaders that initiate the process, the bedrock of cooperative relationship as people build these relationships to help one another; The integrity and dignity of leaders/ members that compose the "samahan" are the core values to keep the invisible "glue" in the human social system; The adherence to the wisdom of and practice of a consultative and democratic process in tapping the "collective intelligence" of the leaders as officers as well as the members; is a subtle leveraging power to effective cooperative functioning and the organization of the cooperative is based on real, felt need among the members that compose it.