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.
Mobility Car Sharing
In 1987 the two Swiss cooperatives that would become Mobility car sharing opened for business. Each began with one car, a hand full of members and a few spare keys. Twenty-four years later, after a merger and name change, Mobility has established itself as the largest car-share program in Europe: 100,000 customers share 2,600 vehicles. […]
Natures Way Cooperative (Fiji) Ltd.
Sant Kumar is retired from the Natures Way Cooperative these days. Well, as retired as a persistent, energetic fellow like Kumar can be. These days, amongst other things, he’s growing seedlings. The service cooperative he shaped from its beginning has a need for consistent supply of papaya, mango, eggplant and breadfruit. The cooperative’s job is […]
Mayange Pigs Farmers Cooperative (MPFC)
Southeastern Rwanda’s Mayange is one of the poorest regions in one of the poorest countries in the world. It’s an area that bears the scars of the country’s 1994 genocide, and once densely forested, now faces the present day aftermath of soil erosion and drought exacerbated by decades of logging for charcoal production. Most of […]
Artes Gráficas Chilavert
Artes Gráficas Chilavert is a small print shop emblematic within Argentinas phenomenon of worker-recuperated enterprises, or ERTs, because of its highly conflictive beginning as a coop and the subsequent militancy and social justice activism some of its workers have been involved with. Located in the economically challenged Buenos Aires barrio of Nueva Pompeya, Chilavert became […]
CORIANDOLINE Friendly houses for girls and boys
The Andria Cooperative, active in the housing sector, was founded in Correggio (Reggio Emilia-Italy) in 1975. The 1990’s brought a development in the Cooperative’s approach: from purely building homes, it matured into becoming a reference point for people wanting to intervene in the territory to improve their quality of life. Therefore, by strengthening its relations […]
Art House Co-op
Art House Co-op is an independent Brooklyn-based company that organizes global, collaborative art projects. Our flagship endeavor is the Sketchbook Project: an evolving library featuring more than 12,000 artists’ sketchbooks from 100 countries and counting. We also operate the Brooklyn Art Library and Brooklyn Archives, our storefront spaces in the heart of Williamsburg. We’re continuing […]
De Wrikker drukkerscollectief cvba
De Wrikker is a printery, founded in 1975 and self-managed as a collective of equal paid loaners, also the coöperants. We made the evolution to a qualitative and eco based printery, with 400 small clients, mostly non-profit organisations and small businesses. Making the collective work is a daily task for us all, but the low […]