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.
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Co-operatives First
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Co-operative Enterprise Council
Technical advisory and consultation services for start-up and growth of co-ops and social enterprises, including structure, bylaws, policies, HR, access to capital, investment readiness, strategic planning, training, facilitation, feasibility studies and business plans, governance and board development, research, access to legal and accounting advice, and basically anything a group needs to move its mandate forward.
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Capstan Association for Community Economic Development
We help businesses transition to employee and community ownership.
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The Communitas Group Ltd.
The Communitas Group is a private Alberta based corporation. Communitas grew out of the needs of community groups and the needs of those who assisted community groups. It was formed in 1972. The basic goals of Communitas are to ensure that individuals and community groups have access to the information, resources, and tools they require to develop a humane environment over which they have control. In order to achieve these goals Communitas has established services in the following areas:
– Housing Development & Project Management
– Community Development
– Research and Planning
– Co-operative and Community Economic Development
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Tango RJ consultant Inc.
Small team of consultants with over thirty years’ experience in the co-operative movement, both as an employee and director in various cooperative sectors. As Vice-President of CoopZone, I work to promote the network of cooperative business developers across Canada.
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Le Consortium de coopération en entreprises collectives
The Consortium is the shared services center for co-operatives, mutuals and non-profit organizations. It provides over 60 professionals in 20 fields of expertise to accompany and support collective enterprises in their development, and to offer them the tools and resources they need to succeed.
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Stéphanie Guico
Stéphanie specializes in multi-partner team building and participative development. With a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Development from McGill University (Montreal) and a Master’s degree in Management from St Mary’s University (Halifax), her practice bridges the human and analytical approach of the human sciences with the Cartesian philosophy of management. She ensures coherence between entrepreneurs’ vision of impact and the creation of pragmatic, realistic business and financing plans that don’t compromise partners and make their dreams of a better world possible. She is fluent in French, English and Spanish. She has facilitated co-creation processes and knowledge-sharing workshops in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Mongolia.
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CDEM – Economic Development Council of Manitoba
The CDEM has been the driving force behind economic development in Manitoba’s bilingual communities since 1996. Our mission: stimulate, encourage, support and coordinate economic development in the communities that are members of the Association of Manitoba Bilingual Municipalities (AMBM). It offers employment, business advisory, immigration and tourism services.
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Hélène Turcotte, Strategic Development Consultant
Thanks to my ingenuity and creativity, I enlighten collective business leaders by exploring new avenues, so that together we can find the organizational and financial means to make their dream accessible and achievable. My motivation is to make the seemingly impossible possible. Because together, we can go further.
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Juristes Power Law
Juristes Power is a law firm offering high-quality legal and strategic advice in civil and constitutional litigation, governance and lobbying, from offices in Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver.
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