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Perhaps the Petit Jean Electric Cooperative story can be communicated best within the rubric of three basic concepts: member ownership, member control, and member benefits. First, Petit Jean Electric Cooperative is literally the members' business. In other words, Petit Jean Electric Cooperative is owned by the members it serves. In fact, the cooperative consists in and literally is its members. Therefore, a cooperative is only as strong and healthy as its community base, and any cooperative at its best is necessarily a service-oriented and community-building entity. When a cooperative fails to be service-oriented and community-building, it only undermines and inflicts damage upon itself. When the community thrives so does the cooperative, and vice versa. In short, Petit Jean Electric Cooperative is a member-owned, service-oriented and community-building organization.