The Australians have a saying when you are getting a bad deal you are getting fleeced. And that is just how this great Western Australian based member owned business got started. The Capricorn story is something of a legend these days but 38 years ago seven Golden Fleece service station operators met in […]
Capricorn Society Ltd
Capricorn is a member based organisation proudly operating by cooperative principles to primarily support businesses in the automotive industry. This approach allows Members to better manage their businesses by saving time and money and ultimately to increase profits. Members are the owners too and are eligible to receive dividends, if declared. As a major player […]
Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA)
The ACCA objectives include: To foster a healthy and vibrant co-operative sector, to provide a means for co-operatives to associate and network with other co-operatives, to promote the co-operative model, to support the development of strong Alberta communities through co-operation, to foster the development of community leaders through education, to provide youth education and leadership, […]
Leading Slovakian Engineering
The Fragokov cooperative, one of the largest engineering companies in the Preov region and regularly listed as one of the top 200 best Slovakian companies, was founded in 1949. Originally called the Eastern Slovak Peoples Car Repair Company (Východoslovenské ?udové autodrustvo, abbreviated to VLAD, in Slovak) by the late 1980s the cooperative employed more than […]
Renewable Energy Co-operative
We are a worker owned co-operative specialising in renewable energy solutions for commercial, agricultural, domestic and community projects. As a co-operative we are passionate about helping people making independent decisions about their energy sources and education people about green energy solutions through talks, transition town meetings, activities and community schemes.
School: not just desks and chalkboards
Why do I have to learn math? Why do I have to practice scales? Why do I have to work with her? If you have been a teacher or a parent these are probably questions you have heard. If you have been a student these are probably questions (even if you don’t want to admit […]
Cooperativas Escolares
Cooperativas Escolares is part of an academic center on Social Economy and Cooperatives, nationally and internationally recognized as a reference for the development of applicable knowledge building through training and community services. Our aim is to promote equitable and inclusive development in the county and the region.
Management education for co-operatives
For more than a decade, Saint Mary’s University has been a pioneer in the development and delivery of graduate level management education for co-operatives in the English speaking world. In an effort to address the lack of business education geared to the co-operative model, the Co-operative Management Education Co-operative (CMEC) was formed in 2002 to […]
Co-operative Management Education Co-operative (CMEC) and Saint Mary’s University
The Co-operative Management Education Co-operative (CMEC) was established in 2002 to support the advancement of co-operative management education in partnership with Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). Membership in CMEC is open to co-operatives and credit unions, educational institutions and individuals. Our 69 current members are encouraged to send students and provide funding for […]
Cootraban
As a company of the solidarity economy, La Cooperativa de Trabajadores de Banacol (Banacol Workers Cooperative) “COOTRABAN” contributes to a real improvement to the quality of life of people in lower-class neighborhoods (estratos 1, 2 and 3) in Urabá by offering goods and services, thus contributing to the the growth of community in general.