COMSTAR Federal Credit union in Frederick, MD, loves pets-and it shows! On Friday, June 24, 2011, COMSTAR celebrated Take Your Dog To Work day. We planned a special series of fun events to celebrate the day and our new health insurance for pets (VPI). Our celebration included: -Coolest pet on the black contest -Dog adoption […]
Birmingham Bike Foundry – United Kingdom
Cycling is inexpensive, environmentally friendly, good exercise, often faster than public transport, reduces traffic congestion … What’s not to like? Unfortunately public policy is not always bicycle-oriented, and many people, especially women, are unwilling to get on a bike. A workers’ cooperative that recycles bikes and offers cycle training, Birmingham Bike Foundry is hoping to convince […]
Argentinean workers take destiny in own hands
UST is the story of how 34 workers turned the tables on Argentinas largest multinational company. Techint may have been involved in more than 100 businesses around the world but the thorn in its side in the late 1990s was a business in its home patch, in a place called Villa Domínico, just south of […]
Cooperativa de Trabajo Unión Solidaria de Trabajadores (UST)
Unión Solidaria de Trabajadores (Solidarity Gathering of Workers, or UST) became a worker cooperative in 2003 as the plants formerly state-contracted workers faced job flexibilization and dismissals. Formally, UST is involved in parks maintenance for the municipality of Avellaneda and the management of the large, state-run landfill located in the neighbourhoods Villa Domínico and Wilde. […]
Lama Development and Cooperation Agency
Founded in 2007, LAMA is a consulting agency working in the field of local and international development. LAMA focused its work on supporting development organizations, local authorities, enterprises, trusts and other institutions with a range of specially designed and professional services. LAMA delivers services in three main areas: Consultancy; Training and Communication; Action Research and […]
Equal Exchange
A pioneer and U.S. market leader in Fair Trade since 1986, Equal Exchange is an award-winning, full service, nationwide provider of high quality organic coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa, almonds, olive oil and bananas. 100% of Equal Exchange products are fairly traded, benefiting more than 40 small farmer co-operatives in 25 countries from Mexico to India. […]
Women’s Sewing Co-op Cocoki of Kigali, Rwanda
Emelienne Nyiramana, now 37, used to fetch water for a living, walking 17 kilometers from her home in Kigali and earning 25 cents on each trip to provide for her family of six. She didnt have a bank account, and school fees and groceries for her four children were never certainties. Now, Emelienne earns more […]
Cocoki of Kigali
A womens sewing cooperative in Kigali, Rwanda, that produces handicrafts for export to large fashion brands in the U.S. that have included Nicole Miller, Anthropologie and J. Crew.
eDOC Innovations
Founded in 1992, eDOC Innovations is the nations only CUSO based on e-document management technology. With over 15 years of experience, eDOC has emerged as the countrys largest provider of imaging solutions that work with a myriad of different data processor technologies; thus giving the client control of their data, their documents and their strategy.
Bertha’s Story: A founding members describes the power of cooperative development
“For me, its about empowerment,” explains Bertha Naranjo, full-time mother of four and full-time worker-owner and co-founder of Eco-Care Professional Housecleaning, an eco-friendly housecleaning cooperative Bertha developed with eight other women in a suburb of San Francisco, CA in 2001. The cooperative was developed with the help of WAGES, Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security, […]