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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

Cooperative Financial Institutions

Financial institutions owned and controlled by their members.

September 7, 2023

The Banker Ladies Council

Meet the Black women organizers defying anti-Blackness to build a Canadian federation of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations.

Citations

GEO Collective, Caroline Shenaz Hossein (2022).  Cooperative Finance in Haiti and Grenada.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/cooperative-finance-haiti-and-grenada

March 24, 2022

Cooperative Finance in Haiti and Grenada

A report on the widespread use of formal and informal financial cooperatives by the people of Haiti and Grenada.

March 14, 2022

Cliff Rosenthal on CDFIs, Co-op Development, and Democratizing Finance

Co-op advocate and Author Clifford N. Rosenthal discusses the role CDFIs play in the development of co-ops, and his book "Democratizing Finance: Origins of the Community Development Financial Institutions Movement."

Citations

Emma Weinstein-Levey (2017).  Principle 7 in Action:  How LES People's Credit Union Practices Solidarity.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/story/principle-7-action

Citations

Frank Cetera (2016).  Solidarity with Standing Rock:  Upstate NY CDCU Takes Action for Water Protectors .  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/story/solidarity-standing-rock