OCDC brings together organizations committed to building a more prosperous world through cooperatives. Its mission is to champion, advocate and promote effective international cooperative development. OCDCs members are: ACDI/VOCA, CHF International, Communications Cooperative International, Cooperative Resources International, HealthPartners, Land O’Lakes International Development, National Cooperative Business Association, National Rural Electric Association and the World Council of […]
Customers Never Complain; But Never Repeat
Customers Never Complain; But Never Repeat The Chairman of the Methodist Co-operative Society Ltd, John Cheong, often uses the above phrase to make light of the seldomspokenof bereavement industry and yet in all seriousness, it is this compassionate role that one of its subsidiaries, Hosanna Bereavement Services Pte Ltd, has been providing to Christian families […]
Hosanna Bereavement Services Pte Ltd
Hosanna Bereavement Services is a subsidiary of the Methodist Cooperative Society Ltd. a one-stop centre for bereavement and funeral related services; such as transportation, embalming, casket supply, and other related funeral services including food, drink, tentage, mobile toilet, press announcements, photography, as well as other ancillary services like arrangements for the supply of urns and […]
Frances Crédit Coopératif leads the way in ethical banking
Crédit Coopératif, one of Frances leading co-operative banks, was founded in 1893. It finds its origins in the Social Economy movement of the late 19th century that led to the creation of today’s large mutual banking groups, when the industrial revolution and early globalisation led populations to organise themselves into cooperatives. These values and this […]
Crédit Coopératif
Crédit Coopératif is a co-operative bank whose mission is to contribute to the development of enterprises of the social economy, associations, co-operatives, business groups, social entrepreneurs and charitable bodies, in an appropriate response to their needs and co-production of services. As a pioneer of ethical and solidarity finance, Crédit Coopératif provides its expertise to serve […]
Ecosphera
Ecosphera is a Type B social coop (30% of members must be from one or more disadvantaged groups) that provides environmental services for the city of Forlì, in Emilia Romagna, Italy. As a social cooperative, a core mission of Ecosphera is to provide meaningful ways to engage its disabled/disadvantaged staff as productive members of the […]
Fruit of the Vine, Stem and Stalk
A few years ago a group of Nicaraguans decided that when life gave them fruit they would make wine. They also make juices and jams. In 1986 an informal organization of workers began to gather forgotten fruit from farms near the bustling capitol of Managua. They sold that produce in local markets and reinvested profits […]
Cooperativa Agroindustrial Chinantlan
Cooperativa Chinantlan is dedicated to the economic and social growth of community, with a special focus on the women who live in this region of Nicaragua. The coop brings together employees from country and city to grow, harvest, transport, process and sell fruit. Currently, the cooperative produces wine, juice and jam from locally grown products.
CUMA spells cooperation for farmers
The CUMA (Coopérative dUtilisation de Matériel Agricole or cooperative for the use of farm implements) emerged from French farmers need to mechanise after World War II. Through CUMAs, farmers own and operate farm agricultural machinery collectively, making it both more affordable and more efficiently utilised. The main activity of these co-operatives is harvesting but some […]
A supermarket for the people
The year is 1972 in Singapore and there was widespread panic buying because of the fears of a global food shortage that the global oil crisis brought about. Unscrupulous merchants took advantage of the situation by hoarding essentials and raising prices whenever they felt like it. To counter this, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) […]