Gregory McKee, director of the Quentin Burdick Center for Cooperatives, will host the 2012 Aldrich C. Bloomquist Lecture scheduled for Wednesday, March 21.

David J. Thompson of Thompson Consulting and the co-principal of Neighborhood Partners LLC, of Davis, Calif., will give the presentation. Thompson has worked with cooperative organizations in the United States, Britain, Japan and the United Nations, and has visited cooperatives in more than 30 nations on five continents. Thompson specializes in funding the capital needs of the cooperative business sector and low-income nonprofit and cooperative housing. He also has won numerous awards from the cooperative community.

The event will be held at noon in the Executive and Board Room of the Holiday Inn in Fargo, with a lunch served at no charge. RSVP to gregory.mckee@ndsu.edu no later than March 15.