CADIAI is one of Italys most established social services cooperatives. It was founded in Bologna in 1974 by 30 people, 27 of whom were women. The founders had experience in care, whether as informal workers, home carers, in nursing homes or private rest homes or assisting children and the elderly. Their aims were to ensure […]
GoCoop
GoCoop is an organization dedicated to socio-economic development of co-ops and self-help groups (SHGs) through technology innovation. In this endeavour, GoCoop.com is a web-based global collaboration platform for Co-ops which helps them connect, collaborate and co-operate. The GoCoop.com platform leverages information and communication technology and enables cooperative organizations to communicate and collaborate with their members […]
Coexphal (Association of fruit and vegetable growers of Almería)
Originally formed to enable exportation, Coexphal is now an association of, and service provider to, 72 agricultural cooperatives and producer entities (themselves with 13,500 farmer members), representing 70% of exports and 65% of total production of Almería, which translates into 1.8 million tons and a turnover of over 1.500 million Euros. The associated cooperatives and […]
The Hub Trentino Soc. Coop
The Hub is a global community of people and spaces supporting social innovation; The Hub Rovereto is part of this network. It is a cooperative set up 2 years ago with the aim of adapting the Hub model to an area which is not metropolitan (Trentino). The Hub Rovereto is made up of a community […]
The Consultant Squad
Like a team of super heroes, the members of the Lluke coop respond to the needs of communities and cooperatives throughout Chile. Each member of the consulting group offers their own individual expertise and creative problem solving skills. Their work focuses on energy saving and community improvement and results in job growth and more socially […]
Lleku
Lleku is a workers cooperative employing an open working and multidisciplinary relationships space, that seeks to innovate positively in the environment in which we develop our work through the joint efforts of partners and collaborators. Participation and collaboration are our central values, which guide and encourage our work.
Peace of Mind in a Time of Mourning Thanks to Loan Life Insurance
In West Africa, two million families are now protected by an innovative and advantageous loan life insurance product. This product was developed by the Confederation of Financial Institutions of West Africa (CIF) and its six member networks of financial cooperatives, including the PAMÉCAS network in Senegal, in collaboration with Développement international Desjardins (DID) and Desjardins […]
Extending horizons and opportunities through worker cooperatives in Uganda
As many youths in Uganda face the unemployment crisis, the youths in Bwongera, in the South West of the country, have a different story to tell. They have managed to create jobs for themselves. They have formed a worker cooperative to construct fish ponds for farmers. The group consists of 40 members that started in […]
Bwongyera Fish Farmers and Pond Constructors Coop
Bwongyera Fish Farmers and Pond Constructors Coop is a youth cooperative in western Uganda. Because of rampant unemployment the youth took construction of fish ponds as a way of earning a living. Later they discovered that they could also use the excavated soils to make bricks for sale and to construct their own houses. The […]
Trade School
Trade School is a self-organized learning platform that connects students to receive instruction from teachers in exchange for barter items that the teacher requests. The Trade School network is made up of self-organized barter-for-knowledge schools across the world. It started in 2010 with a small group of friends in New York and spread to Virginia […]