Founded in 2020, Coop Exchange was established to build a regulated, technology-enabled capital-raising platform tailored to cooperatives and mutuals. The Company sought to address long-standing structural challenges in cooperative capital formation by combining regulatory approval, digital infrastructure and mission-aligned investment frameworks.
Bill 20, tabled in February, is expected to make several changes affecting access to affordable housing in Quebec, including co-ops. It would make residents of housing co-operatives pay a penalty if their income rises past a certain threshold.
This special issue of Organization treats cooperatives as alternative forms of business and organization, focusing on worker-owned-and-governed forms.
As the first media outlet to be managed by a European Cooperative Society (SCE), Voxeurop was determined from the outset to place democratic governance at the heart of its business. In a cooperative, each member is entitled to one vote at the General Meeting, regardless of the share of capital he or she holds. Cooperative status also guarantees employees ownership of the publication for which they work, and gives them majority control.
June 12, 2026 at Wheaton College in Norton, MA
We are a worker-owned co-op. We believe the best way forward for media and journalism is without generative AI, without VC money and investors to pay back, and without corporate overlords more concerned about posting endless profits than the actual writing that is supposedly their “product.” Instead, we will operate on a subscription model: you pay us directly for the work we make. You know, like how a business is supposed to work!
First published in 2024, The Banker Ladies is now available as an open access publication from the University of Toronto Press at bit.ly/4d7tus2
In this absorbing book, Caroline Shenaz Hossein (pictured) tells the story of the informal co-operative banks and rotating savings and credit associations (Roscas) used by the African diaspora, and of the women who run them.
Launched in 2025 at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, as part of the UN International Year of Cooperatives, the CCH programme celebrates places and traditions that embody the legacy, idea and practice of cooperation worldwide. The 2025 launch highlighted an inaugural list of tangible elements or sites connected to the birth and development of cooperative movements, institutions and practices that have shaped societies around the world. The initiative is guided by the ICA CCH Working Group (WG).
Cooperative Development Institute is a regional 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1994 by co-op leaders in the Northeast. CDI’s mission is to create and sustain democratically owned cooperative enterprises and networks in the Northeast that grow a prosperous, equitable economy. We envision a world where every person can fulfill their needs and aspirations.
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Capitalism’s crisis is planetary. It is a system upending nature and society, causing many to live and work in despair. So far, the left has been incapable of offering a practical challenge to it.
