On March 26, 2010 in Tordas, Hungary the Amerikai Magyar Klub under the auspices of the Amerikaiak a Magyarokért Alapítvány (Americans for Hungarians Foundation) sponsored a planning conference to design a new cooperative movement in Hungary based on the pre World War II success model called the HANGYA cooperatives. Attending were past managers of these cooperatives, local farmers and business people as well as agricultural experts from the University of Debrecen and from the financial indutsry.