In 1935, City of Pasadena, CA employees seeking a better place to save and borrow money formed Pasadena FCU. Our non-profit financial cooperative now serves more than 12,000 member-owners. Our volunteer Board of Directors is comprised of Police Officers, a librarian, a college dean, a former Girl Scout representative and community leaders. We serve many […]
Global Development Co-operative
The Global Development Co-operative was officially launched on the same day as that of the UN International Year of Co-operatives 2012. It has been set up to provide development capital to those co-operatives who fall into what is known as the “missing middle” and have, up until now, had no access to capital in the […]
The single voice of a cooperative
A civil war raged in Guatemala from 1960 to 1996 – the longest civil war in Latin America’s history. In the Ixil Triangle, where Oikocredit project partner Asociación Chajulense (Chajul) operates today, thousands of civilians were killed, tortured or disappeared. The victims were predominantly Mayan descendants. Today, the coffee and honey farmers of Chajul – made […]
Oikocredit – Cocovico – women empowerment and entrepreneurship
Created in 1993, Cocovico (Coopérative de Commercialisation de Produits Vivriers de Angre) is a cooperative of female vendors based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Since 2004 Cocovico has been an Oikocredit project partner. Cocovico used Oikocredit financing to build a new market in Abidjan in a time when the country was in civil war. At this […]
Oikocredit
Oikocredit is a worldwide cooperative society. It promotes global justice by challenging people, churches and others to share their resources through socially responsible investments and by empowering disadvantaged people with credit. The Oikocredit name comes from the Greek oiko (house or community) and credere (to believe).