Networking & Collaboration

For years, access to capital has been cited as one of the biggest challenges facing Canada's co-operative sector. This Co-op Conversation looks at how groups of co-ops can raise and invest capital together, offering investment products that are more accessible to everyday savers, more liquid and better-returning.

Soleil Ho shared candid insights and hard-learned lessons for the cooperative-curious with IIJ leader Shernay Williams, and discussed their career as a food journalist.

When child care is hard to find and harder to afford, some communities aren't waiting for a fix. Kristin Forde Hurckes of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Center for Cooperative explains how cooperative models are helping - and where they hit their limits.

ASETT has three main objectives. One is to build for the future, which involves engaging in scenario planning. The second is to pilot and scale cooperative and social economy practices. And the third is to focus on knowledge generation and transfer to create a narrative that breaks down Mondragón’s isolation and builds support for a social and solidarity economy. 

Two presentations on how to teach about co-operatives to non-coop audiences and the beneficial results of doing so.

Chuck Bell interviews Delia Marx of Westchester Cooperative Network about the organization's work to promote the development of worker-owned cooperatives in Westchester, County, NY

Housing cooperatives present a huge potential to the housing stock, not just in Hamilton but across Canada.

In recent years, there’s been renewed interest in the worker co-op model. The Earthworker cooperative network focused on Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. The goal: find new types of employment and products in a coal area undergoing transition.

Ekhilur, a nonprofit citizen cooperative, is pioneering an innovative approach to strengthening the local economy. Instead of creating a new currency, it operates its own payment system — regulated by the Bank of Spain — to maximize the circulation of the existing euro within the community for as long as possible.

Chris interviews worker-owners at the 2024 Worker Co-op Conference in Chicago, Illinois.