Black Women Professional Co-operative (BWP Co-op) is a multi-stakeholder co-op that aims to empower women professionals and entrepreneurs to operationalize their businesses and scale up products and services to mainstream local channels and international markets. Founded in March 2020 by ten Black women professionals, the Co-op was formally incorporated in 2024.
Ada Iwenofu, the Co-op’s Director of Business Operations, says the multi-stakeholder model was a logical fit for the founders’ mission of building resilient, healthy and thriving communities.
“The reason why we wanted to do this was to create intergenerational wealth within our communities,” she says. “And the best way to do that was to come together in solidarity and cooperation to ensure that that happens.”
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