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Support Organizations

Organizations that provide services, resources or any form of support to cooperative/solidarity economy initiatives or enterprises.

September 1, 2025

A Tribute to Charles O. Prejean

A tribute to Charles O. Prejean, founding charter member and first Executive Director of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, serving from 1967 to 1985.

August 28, 2025

Lessons from the Chasqui Project

Centered on Argentina’s Chasqui Project, an e-commerce platform for socially and cooperatively produced goods, the report examines the project’s decade-long development as a collaborative endeavor between public universities, tech cooperatives, and grassroots organizations.

August 25, 2025

What Does Shared Equity Housing Look Like in Rural Communities?

During this webinar, the Cooperative Development Foundation’s Affordable Housing Initiative explored how shared equity housing models such as limited equity co-ops, community owned real estate co-ops, ROCs (resident owned communities of manufactured homes), and other models can help rural communities meet their housing needs on their terms.

August 21, 2025

Reimagining NGO Relationships with Cooperatives

I want to emphasize the urgent need to reimagine the relationship between NGOs and cooperatives. Instead of NGOs or funders defining projects based on their own interests, support and resources should be offered at the community’s request.

May 26, 2025

Overcoming Financial Difficulty for Co-ops

Ai Van Kok explains how she has used "The £1 Model" to help worker co-ops in the UK better understand, and take control of, their business expenses.

April 24, 2025

A Timeline of the USFWC

This timeline presentation goes over the highlights of 20+ years of worker cooperativism in the United States. 

March 13, 2025

Arizmendi: A Co-op of Co-ops

Bethany and Tim of the Cheeseboard Bakery and the Arizmendi Association of Co-ops talk about the model of worker co-op development they have been successfully pursuing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

February 13, 2025

A Cautionary Tale From The US Federation of Worker Co-ops

In this episode of Punchcard, we speak to Rebecca Kemble, an experienced cooperator from the US, who is a member of Union Cabs Worker Cooperative in Madison and co-founder of the Solidarity Economy Principles Project.

December 30, 2024

This Argentine Prison Cooperative Ended Recidivism

Inside a maximum security prison in Argentina, Liberté offers more than education and recreation for incarcerated people—it offers lessons in solidarity.

December 19, 2024

Building Regional Cooperative Ecosystems

In this session, Building Regional Cooperative Ecosystems, from Beyond Business as Usual 2024: Co-Ops and the Next Economy, you will learn more about the concept of a "cooperative ecosystem" and hear lessons from organizers building regional cooperative ecosystems as part of the global solidarity economy movement.