WAGES builds worker-owned green businesses that create healthy, dignified jobs for low-income women. We launch cooperatives where women develop personal and professional skills, become leaders, and gain economic security.
Blueprint for a better world
Erik van der Veken writes, as he says, on behalf of the cooperative about the relaxed and warm environment and the benefits of an egalitarian structure. “De Wrikker is a printery, a print-shop as you like. We’re printing (offset) namecards to big posters, and a lot of magazines with a small range but a broad […]
Just Food Co-op
We are Northfields community-owned natural foods market and deli, and we’re proud to be your source for fresh, local, and organic food and sustainable household and personal care products. We also happen to be owned by 2,200 of your friends and neighbors.
Ecopower – renewable energy across Belgium
Cooperatives have a long history in the energy market in the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal encouraged the formation of electric cooperatives that brought electricity to many parts of the rural United States considered unprofitable by private power companies. With today’s growing focus on clean and sustainable energy sources, renewable energy cooperatives are […]
The Fifth Season Cooperative…working together to build local food infrastructure.
The Fifth Season Cooperative is a multi-stakeholder co-op made up of producers, producer groups, food processors, distributors, and buyers from the 7 Rivers Region in the state of Wisconsin, in the U.S.A. Our members represent all of the key players in the food system at the local level. Our goal is to build a robust […]
Fifth Season Cooperative
The Fifth Season Cooperative is a multi-stakeholder cooperative made up of producers, producer groups, food processors, distributors, and buyers from the 7 Rivers Region. Our members represent all of the key players in the food system at the local level. Our goal is to build a robust regional food system that supports a healthy environment, […]
TICE, a cooperative that is also an applied research centre
We wanted to be researchers. We wanted to apply the scientific knowledge about education that was locked in our university professors’ desks. We wanted to help children, families and schools to reach their educational goals without simply “being creative” or listening to psychologists, but actually DOING something effective. After achieving the best expertise by intensive […]
TICE Cooperativa Sociale
The TICE cooperative aims to help children, families and schools to reach their educational goals without simply listening to psychologists, but actually DOING something effective. After achieving the best expertise by intensive practice in USA, the 30-something female researchers who own the cooperative decided to actively fight the brain-drain by working as pioneers in Italy. […]
Katuka Development Trust
Robusta coffee has traditionally been grown in the central region of Uganda around the Lake Victoria basin, but rudimentary, unsustainable production methods were depleting soil fertility and producing poor-quality coffee with little value on the international market. The Katuka Development Trust Ltd (KTDL), a cooperatively owned company limited by guarantee, is working to improve farmers’ […]
Katuka Development Trust Limited
A coffee-growing cooperative helping member farmers improve the quality of their coffee, get organic and fair-trade certification and market their coffee internationally.