January 2023 Newsletter

Volume 15 Issue 1

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REPORT

2023 Conference / JEDI Social Acquisition Project / CWCF Board Officers 2023 / Young Adult Arts and Culture Grant / Worker Co-op Academy

RAPPORT DE LA DIRECTRICE GÉNÉRALE

Congrès 2023 / Projet de reprise collective JEDI / Le comité exécutif de la FCCT 2023 / Subvention pour les arts et la culture destinée aux jeunes adultes / Académie des coopératives de travail.

CWCF News & Events

UPCOMING WEBINARS

What is a Worker Co-op ? Wednesday February 1st, 12 pm ET.
Worker Co-op Finance 101, Wednesday, February 8th, 12 pm ET.
Converting Businesses to Social Purpose Organizations for Equity-Denied Groups, Thursday, February 9th, 1 pm ET
What is a Worker Co-op? Friday, March 10th, 12 pm ET
Worker Co-op 101: An Introduction, Tuesday, March 21st, 12 pm ET

GRANT APPLICATIONS

Technical Assistance Grants: Applications are open - get yours in today!

Young Adult Arts and Culture Grants: Applications are due April 30.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CWCF'S FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES>>

OUR INDIGENOUS CO-OPERATIVE JOURNEY

Learn from one co-op's example what Indigenous organizations could achieve by working together using the co-op structure.

CWCF WELCOMES SECOND BIPOC BOARD ADVISOR

CWCF is pleased to announce Nasreen Omar, chair of Edmonton's Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative, as our new BIPOC board advisor.

LEARN MORE >>

DID YOU KNOW?

CWCF is pleased to offer Common Good Capital, a program that enables co-operatives and similar types of enterprises, including non-profit organizations, to capitalize their ventures with securities held within Registered Plans.(RRSPs and TFSAs). You can read more about it at this link.

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From the CWCF Blog

WAYFINDERS CO-OP HELPS SMALL BUSINESSES FORGE A COMMON PATH

Whatever their area of expertise, small businesses today often face an uphill battle when it comes to competing against large corporations whose resources are difficult to match. Wayfinders aims to change this.

LA COOPÉRATIVE WAYFINDERS AIDE LES PETITES ENTREPRISES À CONSTRUIRE UNE VOIE COMMUNE

Quel que soit leur domaine de spécialisation, les petites entreprises d’aujourd’hui font souvent face à une rude concurrence de la partdes grandes entreprises, beaucoup mieux outillées.

THREE REASONS FOR OPTIMISM ABOUT WORKER CO-OPS IN 2023

With the beginning of a new year, worker co-ops have an opportunity to seize amidst the many crises facing the global economy.

Worker Co-op News

IN CANADA

CWCF Worker Co-op Academy participant The Makehouse threads community, creativity at Victoria Sewing Studio.
Célébrez avec nous 15 ans du Réseau COOP et 50 ans d’histoire de la coopération du travail, le mardi 31 janvier 2023.
CWCF member SSG looks backwards and forwards with the start of a new year.
The International Centre for Co-operative Management at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS is hiring a Researcher and Project Coordinator.
Recordings of the excellent Worker Co-op Ignite presentations from CWCF's 2022 Conference are now available, thanks to Vancouver Co-op Radio.
A recording of the keynote forum from the CWCF Conference, What do Equity-Seeking Communities and the Solidarity Economy offer each other? is also available. This session was very powerful and is highly recommended!
Susanna Redekop and Christine Clarke of Freedom Dreams Co-operative Education will discuss how we can incorporate DEI practices into Co-operative Principle 1: Voluntary and Open Membership. Register by January 24th at https://ocap8series.com
La boutique de couture The Makehouse, à Victoria, capitale de la Colombie-Britannique, a récemment été transformée en coopérative par ses cinq nouvelles copropriétaires. Ecoutez leur histoire sur le site de Radio-Canada.

INTERNATIONALLY

The International Co-operative Alliance is hiring a new Director-General.

The Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation (CWCF) is a national, bilingual grassroots membership organization of and for worker co-operatives, related types of co-operatives (multi-stakeholder co-ops and worker-shareholder co-ops), and organizations that support the growth and development of worker cooperatives. CWCF's e-newsletter is available free of charge to anyone with an e-mail address and an interest in worker co-operative developments in Canada. Please send any comments and suggestions, or news about your co-op, to:

Kenzie Love

Editor of CWCF Newsletter

admin@canadianworker.coop

(403) 276-8250