Oikocredit is a worldwide cooperative society. It promotes global justice by challenging people, churches and others to share their resources through socially responsible investments and by empowering disadvantaged people with credit. The Guatemalan fair trade, organic coffee cooperative Chajul is a partner of Oikocredit. Since 1990 Chajul has been financed by Oikocredit to add working […]
Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society supporting Essex
Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society was established in 1867 with the intention of meeting the needs of its members and sharing its profits with them. Nowadays the Society’s Mission has evolved to work together giving life and meaning to the Co-operative difference by trading ethically in order to share our success and serve, support and sustain […]
Raising the Profile of Renewable Energy
A new landmark joined the Toronto skyline in 2002: a 91-metre wind turbine, the first to be installed in a major North American urban city centre and the first community-owned wind power project in Ontario. The ExPlace wind turbine is co-owned by the WindShare cooperative, a project developed by TREC, the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative. […]
Zaytoun CIC
Palestine is home to ancient olive groves, some over 2,000 years old, and the greenish-grey trees dominate the agricultural landscape. But Palestinian producers struggle to export their olives and oil, and in 2004 Zaytoun was founded to create and develop a market for fairly traded Palestinian produce in the United Kingdom. Converted to a cooperative […]
Wheatsville Co-op
The purpose of Wheatsville is to create a self-reliant, self-empowering community of people that will grow and promote a transformation of society toward cooperation, justice, and nonexploitation. Wheatsville’s mission is to serve a broad range of people by providing them goods and services and by using efficient methods which avoid exploitation of the producer and […]
Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society Ltd
Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society Limited is a consumer co-operative based in Essex, United Kingdom. We aspire to be the leading ethical retailer championing excellence in services, employment and community involvement in Essex. Our Mission is to work together giving life and meaning to the Co-operative difference by trading ethically in order to share our success […]
Coopérative Agricole Taliouine
The Souktana plateau, high up in Morocco’s Sirwa mountains, is planted with purple fields of Crocus sativus, the flower whose dried stigmas are known as saffron, the world’s most expensive spice. Producing saffron is labour-intensive work. The flowers must be picked manually at dawn, while still closed, and the tiny stigmas are separated by hand. […]
Coopérative Agricole Taliouine
Unites a group of farmers in rural Morocco who produce saffron and olive oil and helps them market their products.
Tailor-made job opportunities fitted to the needs of the individual.
Founded in January 1983 in the little town of Macomer on Sardinia, the “Progetto H” (PH) was created by a group of 9 friends. Their interest and aim was to create a cooperative that promoted the integration of disadvantaged and disabled individuals into the work environment by offering firsthand work experience and opportunities, ultimately resulting […]
COMSTAR Federal Credit Union
COMSTAR Federal Credit Union is a cooperative, not-for-profit financial institution dedicated to promoting each member’s financial well-being.