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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GIA Consulting Co-operative
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Ontario Co-operative Association
OCA offers business development support to those wanting to start a new co-operative, or to grow an existing co-operative. If you want to know any of the answers below, you’ve come to the right place!
Do you want to know if the co-operative model is the right one for your business idea?
Do you want to know how to incorporate your co-operative?
Are you interested in learning where you might be able to tap into funding for your business venture?
Do you need tools to effectively govern your new co-operative?
Do you want some pointers on how to expand, change, or revitalize your established co-operative?
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Saskatchewan Co-operative Association
Saskatchewan Co-operative Association is a provincial coalition of co-operatives and credit unions. We work together to educate people about co-operatives, promote co-ops, and support the development of co-operatives. Find out more at www.sask.coop.
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Turning Times Research & Consulting
I have been offering co-op development and support services for the past 10 years working mostly with small to medium size co-ops on Vancouver Island and Vancouver area. I have experience with agriculture and on-line marketing co-ops, worker co-ops, shared services co-ops, consumer co-ops, and more. A lot of my work has been to support co-ops through incorporation and the start-up stage of operations. I have worked on business development, business plans, strategic plans, etc. Please see my website for more info on my work.
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Co-operatives First
Co-operatives First is a non-profit organization funded by Federated Co-operatives Limited and the Co-operative Retailing System. Founded in 2015, the organization provides co-op start-up resources, such as feasibility studies, business plans, board training, and incorporation support to rural and Indigenous entrepreneurs across western Canada. Our goal is to help leaders in these communities build new businesses, grow local economies, and support community development.
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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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