COOP Stories

www.crason.coop

History:
The Co-operative Rating & Award Society of Nigeria (CRASoN) is a value-based Rating and Award Institution. CRASoN was founded on the universal principles of cooperation and its ethical values to monitor, track, evaluate and report the economic performances and social impacts of Co-operative Societies, with other initiatives geared to raise their profile to policymakers, researchers, manufacturers, development partners, governments and INGO’s amongst all stakeholders; to get the desired attention needed to aid the development and growth of the sub-sector in Nigeria, afterwards mobilize such co-operatives for the achievement of the nation’s Economic Sustainability Plan coupled with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nigeria.

Our mission is to redefine a new data collection process, integration, and analysis of cooperative economic performances and social impact on its members-patrons and the nation at large. We will use this to enhance the promotion of cooperatives and recognition of cooperative members while remaining socially responsible in Nigeria.

Our Vision:
To be recognized as the Co-operative sector’s award and rating institution of repute that inspired and redefined the cooperative standard of operations in Nigeria.

About Cooperatives and .coop
The global Cooperative community has more than 1 billion members, representing 12% of the world’s employed population. All Cooperatives verify their identity when selecting a .coop web address. Your unique business identity is recognized online with a .coop domain name – your digital brand – a brand known for its economic advantages to its community, consumers, and members.

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www.medi.coop

History:
MediCoop Is regulated by the Prudential Authority under the South African Reserve Bank as a deposit taking and financial intuition.

We are the “next generation” medical financial institution, providing financing, and investment services exclusively to the healthcare sector. We take a very different approach to finances. Our clients are our members, and our members are our shareholders.

MediCoop has been formed to meet the needs of healthcare professionals and, with a deep understanding of the medical industry, is geared to provide not only relevant financial services for its members but also familiar investment opportunities to diversify members’ conventional earnings.

Services:
Our mission is to be the leading medical co-operative financial institution in South Africa, owned and controlled by medical professionals based on co-operative principles.

The vision implies an institution whereby capital and cash flows are mobilised from members within the medical profession and outside sources for reinvestment in the healthcare industry through the deployment of physical, human and social capital.

About Cooperatives and .coop
The global Cooperative community has more than 1 billion members, representing 12% of the world’s employed population. All Cooperatives verify their identity when selecting a .coop web address. Your unique business identity is recognized online with a .coop domain name – your digital brand – a brand known for its economic advantages to its community, consumers, and members.

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www.equality.coop

Equality is an Argentine worker cooperative founded in 2010. We offer IT solutions to companies and government institutions covering their technological needs with products and services of high quality. Since the beginning we have grown steadily in number of clients and projects. Our cooperative model strengthens the commitment of the professionals with the projects in which they are involved.

Expertise:

Financial Services

We have extensive experience in identifying, prioritizing and solving problems. We also participate in the analysis and process optimization with performance or reliability problems in the resulting data. We have business knowledge on Loans, Current Accounts, Savings Bank, Fixed Term, Values ​​Management, Accounting, BCRA Information, Customer Information, Savings Banks. We handle communication and retrieval of remote data via ODBC and JDBC. We perform corrective and evolutionary maintenance of systems. Reengineering and Reverse Engineering.

We carry out constant research and development that allow us to provide customized software focusing on the new paradigms of web and mobile development.

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www.incita.coop

Incita is a workers’ cooperative co-founded by Laure Caillot, Amélie Côté and Mélissa de La Fontaine. Through the projects in which they collaborate, they wish to contribute to building a society respectful of nature and humans in which challenge rhymes with solution. A place where their values ​​are consistent with their actions.

The zero waste approach proposed by Incita is aimed at mobilizing teams and communities through the concrete actions proposed. Stakeholders then become multipliers and have a positive influence that goes far beyond their own changes in habits. With the Incite team, you will find in one place, an offer combining both conference and training services, as well as the expertise of their strategic consulting services.

Working with the Incita team:
Collaborate with a team of inspiring women who mobilize and raise awareness among your teams with their expertise and talents as communicators and popularizers. These are essential levers to set the socio-ecological transition in motion.

Why a co-op?
We believe in a fairer, greener and more inclusive society. We want our vision to be reflected in the organization in which we operate. As women committed to the environment, we believe it is important that the structures in place facilitate horizontal management and engage stakeholders. It is this reflection that led us to co-create a workers’ cooperative, in which members take charge of their organization and collaborate to contribute to projects with a positive environmental and social impact.

Expertise: Offer quality services, by offering a comprehensive, adapted and rigorous approach.
Coherence: Apply the principles that guide the co-operative in all its activities.
Collaboration: Develop and strengthen the skills and expertise of its members.
Positive impact: Contribute to and encourage global reflection on waste reduction.

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www.highwest.coop

History:
Formerly known as the Rural Electric Company, High West Energy has continued to serve its members and communities by providing safe, reliable and competitively priced energy and services. Our vision is to be the trusted partner in the solutions we provide.

When our first lines were energized in May of 1940, we began with 500 members. Now, we serve over 10,000 meters across a 4,300 square mile area in Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska.

High West Energy is committed to its members and the communities they call home. We all have a responsibility to make these communities a better place to raise a family or start a business.

Services:
The mission of High West Energy is to serve our members and communities by providing safe, reliable and competitively priced energy and services.

High West Energy offers scholarships to Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska high school seniors or recent graduates who have a parent or legal guardian who is a co-op member.

In addition, High West is also sponsoring a Line Worker Scholarship. We want to encourage more people to consider being a line worker as a future career choice!

About Cooperatives and .coop
The global Cooperative community has more than 1 billion members, representing 12% of the world’s employed population. All Cooperatives verify their identity when selecting a .coop web address. Your unique business identity is recognized online with a .coop domain name – your digital brand – a brand known for its economic advantages to its community, consumers, and members.

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www.blackstar.coop

History:
Black Star Co-op’s name and logo were inspired by the Black Star of Ghana. In 1957, Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African nation to break free of colonial rule by gaining independence from Britain. The Black Star was adopted as a symbol of Freedom and Justice, immortalized in Accra’s Black Star Gate in the historic Black Star Square. The founders of the co-op felt that this sentiment worked in solidarity with the internationally adopted Co-operative Principles and Values adopted by the Black Star Co-op Pub and Brewery – Johnny Livesay.

Services:
Before becoming the world’s first Cooperatively owned and worker self- managed brewpub, Black Star took root from an idea that looked beyond the path of conventional wisdom. A pub and brewery – owned by the community, for the community.

Co-founder Steven Yarak spread the idea of this unique business model throughout the neighborhood, which led to a meeting of 16 people in a vacant lot in Austin, Texas on January 14, 2006. Together, they assessed what it would take to give the neighborhood the brewpub it deserved. Among that initial group was Jeff Young and Johnny Livesay, Black Star Co-op’s eventual first Beer and Kitchen Team Leaders.

About Cooperatives and .coop
The global Cooperative community has more than 1 billion members, representing 12% of the world’s employed population. All Cooperatives verify their identity when selecting a .coop web address. Your unique business identity is recognized online with a .coop domain name – your digital brand – a brand known for its economic advantages to its community, consumers, and members.

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