CoBank is a national cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states. CoBank is a member of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide network of banks and retail lending associations chartered […]
CoCoThrow
It’s about co-operation. It’s about fun for all ages. It’s a game called CoCoThrow which you can play nearly anywhere, with nearly anyone. It need not cost anything at all. It’s not new but it wears well. We started playing it in 2005 when we called it ‘Co-operative Juggling’. In 2006 we took it to […]
Kallari
A Kichwa rainforest cooperative of 850 families with small farms in the Ecuadorian Amazon. An average family has a small plot (2% of total farm size) planted with cacao trees, part of their farm with other crops, and more than half of their land remains as rainforest reserves. Kallari has received international acclaim as the […]
ASPROUNION
We would like to introduce you to ASPROUNION, an agricultural and social co-operative whose goal is to support the welfare of its community of growers. Established in 2001, ASPROUNION has since worked on improving the quality of life of the 273 associated families. All are small-scale coffee producers located in the locality of La Union, […]
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 […]
Whomadeyourpants
Let me introduce myself… I’m Becky, the founder and Managing Director of whomadeyourpants?, a social enterprise making absolutely gorgeous pants from perfect fabrics left over from manufacturers, right here in the UK. We do this as a means to provide jobs for women who would struggle to get jobs otherwise. I left my last (well-paid […]