Support Organizations

Mari Nishitani discusses her cooperative research trip to two villages in rural Nepal to visit women's cooperatives, on NGO led and one a grassroots effort led by Dalit women. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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