With Covid 19, Monashee Community Co-op in Lumby, BC has been booming – a 65% increase in sales since March! Our members are more committed than ever to supporting local – and saving that 35 km trip to Vernon is a bonus for the pocketbook, the environment and one’s sanity. Monashee Community Co-op is bursting … Continued
The Cortes Community Forest Co-operative (CCFC) formed with the specific purpose of holding tenure of Crown lands on Cortes Island in partnership with the Klahoose First Nation. The Co-op and the Klahoose First Nation are each represented by three directors on the board of the Cortes Forestry General Partnership, which, in 2013, received tenure over … Continued
It is that time of the year again, as 2020 wraps up, many of our members may have noticed that filing your Annual Report looks a bit different this year. BCCA is here to help! BC Registries has launched Cooperatives Online and has replaced paper report filings with an online service. You can now change … Continued
The Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA) is the provincial trade association for co-operatives and credit unions. Our mission is a strong co-operative sector, and we work towards this ambitious goal by promoting the co-operative business structure, creating connections, supporting the co-operative sector, and inspiring co-operative innovation. Working with our strategic partner the BC Co-operative … Continued
It is that time of the year again, as 2020 wraps up, many of our members may have noticed that filing your Annual Report looks a bit different this year. BCCA is here to help! BC Registries has launched Cooperatives Online and has replaced paper report filings with an online service. You can now change … Continued
Looking for gifts your clients and customers will love to kick off 2021? Need a few more items for all those corporate Christmas baskets that need filling? Or for the hard-to-buy-for on your list? Here are unique corporate gift ideas that will knock their holiday socks off … BC Co-op branded items – priced to … Continued
The recent sale of Mountain Equipment Co-op without its members’ consent has exposed significant vulnerabilities related to federal and provincial legislation. The current acts clearly do not provide adequate protection of members’ rights or recognition of the co-operative difference. To wrap up Co-op Week 2020, Cooperatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) held a National Town Hall … Continued
Buddy Up! is an online social network designed to connect co-ops and co-operators across Canada! BCCA is excited to be launching Version 0.1 of this tool this winter and is looking for your input to help shape it. Curious? Sign up here to be a user tester and receive early access to the tool once … Continued
What do Mavins Marketing, Queens of Pop, Open City Events, Fusion Five, BLAC: The Black Arts Centre, Just.Us Instincts, and Daily Dose of Blackness all have in common? They are all co-ops associated with Solid State Community Industries. Using the co-op model, Solid State works with youth from racialized backgrounds to form enterprises to earn … Continued