Nanaimo: Nanaimo’s non-profit carshare co-operative is attracting increasing interest from others in the community. Nanaimo Nissan donated the labour and Nisson Canada the parts to rebuild the air conditioning on one of the co-op’s vehicles. Then the non-profit Energy Solutions for Vancouver Island kicked off the fundraising for a high-quality hitch and bike rack for … Continued
CCCBE Speaker Series – Dr. Marvin Brown A Civic Economy that Provides for Everyone Thursday, February 27th, 4:00 to 5:00 pm David Strong Building, C013 As we consider how to design ways of providing for neighbours in our local communities and strangers in our global networks, we need to re-think the relationship between property ownership … Continued
Supporting our local communities is important to Coast Capital Savings and part of how we do business every day. Our promise is to help build a richer future for youth in our communities so we’re looking to award Community Investment Grants to local non-profit and charitable organizations that can help us deliver on our promise. What … Continued
We are pleased to announce the opening of a new service to our clients. Our Office of Research will provide a new practitioner/academic model of ‘doing research’. The office will be led by Professor Ann Dale, Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development, Royal Roads University. We have been collaborating with Professor Dale for the … Continued
Tuesday January 21 4 to 8 pm Co-op Open House 625 Townsite. If you are a local producer (farmer, other food producer or artisan) and want to sell product at this event please let Brian Fisher (email irco-op@shaw.ca) know your space and other requirements as he will be making those arrangements. There will be no “table” fee for … Continued
Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research (ANSER) CALL FOR PAPERS ANSER/ARES 2014 CONFERENCE Nonprofits and the Social Economy, Pursuing Borders without Boundaries Seventh Annual Conference May 28-30, 2014 Brock University St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada “Near Niagara Falls” ANSER/ARES is a dynamic growing association that is organizing its seventh annual conference as … Continued
A credit union in northern British Columbia which won a national innovation award last summer for using technology to serve members in remote communities, has received another honour – this time from Central 1. North Peace Savings & Credit Union of Fort St. John, BC received Central 1’s Service Innovation Award for Technology Connects the North, … Continued
Bonjour, CoopZone members, The next CoopZone tele-learning session will be on the process for incorporating co-ops under the federal Co-op Act. It will be held on Dec. 11th at 3:30 pm, Eastern Time, for up to 90 minutes. The co-presenters are lawyer Laird Hunter and Coleen Kirby of Corporations Canada (Industry Canada). If you would … Continued
The Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA) has won the 2013 DotCoop Global Award for Co-operative Excellence in the co-operative organization category. The award, which was presented at the ICA conference in Cape Town, recognizes co-operatives around the world for their commitment to co-operative values and principles, with a particular emphasis on web communications. In 2011, CCA received an … Continued
On Tuesday, in Cape Town, the international co-operative movement concluded Congress, held once every two years, with the award of the Rochdale Pioneers Award. This is the highest honour that it can bestow and is given for “making the greatest difference to co-operatives in the world.” All thirteen previous laureates have been outstanding individuals. In … Continued