In September 2010, Pasadena Federal Credit Union celebrated 75 years in our community with a 90 sq. ft. mural by Art Center College of Design alumnus Jerry Ortega titled Building Pasadena. It depicts our diversity and strength. City employees who wanted a better place to save and borrow money founded PFCU in 1935. We now […]
Supporters Direct
The very essence of football is co-operation, and the very root of football clubs in England was the same: a group of people coming together to do or achieve something with no motive of profit, but a form of social good. Fast forward a century and more, and the notion of co-operation in football was […]
Supporters Direct
Officially launched in January 2000, Supporters Direct’s goal is “to promote sustainable spectator sports clubs based on supporters’ involvement and community ownership.” Campaigning for the wider recognition of the social, cultural and economic value of sports clubs, Supporters Direct aims to create the conditions in which supporters can secure influence and ownership of sports clubs. […]
KAB – How Cooperative Housing Works in Denmark
KAB is a Danish Co-operative Social Housing Association and a member of Kooperationen, the Cooperative Employers Organisation in Denmark. In Denmark there are a total of 540,000 co-operative social housing units. Co-operative social housing organisations are established as separate self-governing associations, with a management council controlled entirely by residents through a policy of tenant democracy. […]
TREC Renewable Energy Co-operative
TREC Is Your Partner in Renewable Energy! TREC is a Toronto-based non-profit environmental co-operative. Founded in 1998, TREC initiated the community power movement in Ontario with the creation of the first co-operatively owned wind turbine in Canada – WindShare. Our approach to renewable energy development and education has established us as a recognized leader in […]
Undredal Stølsysteri
A cluster of red, white, blue and yellow houses nestled on the green shores of a breathtaking Norwegian fjord, the tiny village of Undredal has a population of 70 people. And 500 goats. Goats cheese has been made in this valley for centuries. Until 1988, the village could only be reached by boat, which helped […]
Le Mat – social entrepreneurs hosting quality tourism
A SOCIAL BRAND and a SOCIAL FRANCHISOR for SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS in TOURISM Workers-owned cooperatives managing hotels, hostels, SPECIAL PLACES in order to develop self-determination, self-management, social promotion, the active participation of users and clients . Every Le Mat is special and unique but there is a shared Le Mat quality! Le Mats general mission is to […]
HSV Supporters Club
Across Europe, the system of co-operation seen in the supporter ownership of football clubs in Germany is an example to many supporters across the continent who follow clubs that are blighted by debt, badly run, and refuse supporters influence over the game they love. But even in Germany the fans have had to campaign […]
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 […]
Hansalim
In the Korean language, han refers to all living things on earth, while salim means to revive and give life. So the compound Hansalim means save all living things. An ambitious name, but then Hansalim, Koreas biggest consumers cooperative, is an ambitious project. Founded in 1986 as a single grocery store, it now has 284,000 […]