Expert service providers are organizations or consultants that provide resources, training, mentoring, and other learning opportunities to co-operative across the country to help them get established, scale or diversify. CMC wants to ensure that co-operatives across the country have access to relevant services that meet their specific needs. This list will be updated gradually. Please note that CMC is not responsible for the services offered by those providers.
Would you like to join our list of expert service providers for the co-operative sector?
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Mathieu Vigneault
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Populus
Populus provides accessible accounting, administrative and financial management services to its members to help support and create resilient non-profits, coops and social enterprises. Populus is a solidarity cooperative, owned and run by and for its members. We make custom business services more accessible through solidarity!
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Formulative Consulting
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Formulative Consulting focuses on developing planning processes tailored to your organization. Whether you are creating a strategic plan, working through a design lab process, or embarking on a system change initiative, Formulative Consulting has the tools to support your work.
Governance
Formulative Consulting specializes in delivering governance training to meet your board’s needs. Try a workshop to learn about generative governance, effective scenario planning, or participatory decision-making approaches. Alternatively, have Formulative Consulting design you a custom workshop.
Research
Formulative Consulting delivers high-quality research. Custom-designed surveys, focus groups, background reports, and market analysis are tailored to address specific research questions. Formulative Consulting takes a practical approach, ensuring the research results can be applied to your organizational needs.
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Expertise Hub Cooperative
Expertise Hub Cooperative is a democratically governed, community-owned co-operative that strengthens labour market access for internationally trained professionals and other underrepresented groups in Newfoundland and Labrador. We bridge the gap between talent and opportunity by creating paid, short-term contracted work that builds Canadian experience, delivering sector-specific training and mentorship, and supporting employers to adopt more inclusive hiring and credential recognition practices.
Our cooperative brings together highly skilled immigrant professionals across diverse fields, including project management, policy and research, human resources, environmental communications, digital marketing, technology, and the arts, and mobilizes this collective expertise to deliver services, programs, and community-driven projects.
Grounded in cooperative values of equity, inclusion, and collective impact, Expertise Hub operates at the intersection of workforce development, social innovation, and the social and solidarity economy. Our mission is to create systemic pathways that recognize international expertise, reduce structural barriers, and enable newcomers to access meaningful, dignified, and sustainable employment.
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Baby Ghosts
Baby Ghosts is a nonprofit supporting worker-owned and worker-centric studios across Canada through grants, mentorship, and open tools.
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Newfoundland & Labrador Federation of Co-operatives (NFLC)
We proudly represent the co-operatives and credit unions of Newfoundland & Labrador. Our MISSION is to promote the co-operative business model while supporting the growth and development of the overall sector. Our VISION is to create a common table around which our members can work together to address their collective needs.
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Convergence
Convergence helps organizations and companies develop their human and strategic potential. Founded by visionary women, Convergence embodies a collaborative and caring approach. We develop the autonomy of organizations while accompanying them to the end of their process. Organizations are essential to the smooth running of communities. That’s why we create the right conditions for them to accomplish their mission, make an impact and shine. We’ve been working with not-for-profit organizations (NPOs), cooperatives, public and parapublic sector institutions and private companies for 40 years. We are proud to be a cooperative and to promote solidarity and collaboration. We embrace the values of the social economy with conviction.
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Prince Edward Island Co-operative Council (PEICC)
Prince Edward Island Co-operative Council (PEICC) is an association of co-ops and other social enterprises that works, on behalf of its members, to foster a healthy and prosperous Island.
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Maurice Chiasson Consultants inc.
Maurice Chiasson Consultants inc. offre de l’expertise en gestion stratégique et organisationnelle.
Les services de l’entreprise consiste principalement à appuyer les intervenants communautaires et gouvernementaux en matière de gouvernance, de planification stratégique, de gestion du changement, d’évaluation et de diversification du financement ainsi que dans la production, entre autres, d’études de besoins.
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Nova Scotia Co-operative Council
The Nova Scotia Co-operative Council supports and promotes co-operatives and credit unions across Nova Scotia. It focuses on economic growth, affordable housing, and small business financing. Through initiatives like the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program, the Council fosters a strong co-operative sector with significant economic and social impacts.
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