Cooperation can bring prosperity to you and your community

We work with traditional business owners who are thinking about selling and discuss the possibilities of converting to a co-operative.

Whether you’re looking for your retirement income or your next business venture, if you’re having a hard time finding a buyer, it’s worth consider a co-op conversion.

Contact us to learn how a worker co-op could preserve your legacy as well as local jobs.

If your business plays an important part in peoples’ daily lives and/or impacts the success of other local businesses, then a consumer co-op or local investment co-op could also play a role in your succession plan. Let’s talk.

The way regular Albertans are using Opportunity Development Co-ops to raise capital and reinvigorate investment in their communities is really inspiring and essential. We’d love to tell you about it and help you do the same.

Reach out any time to schedule a conversation or presentation. We love connecting with:

• Business students

• SME lenders like ATB and local credit unions

• Entrepreneurs

• Economic Development Officers

• Chambers of Commerce and Community Futures

• and other like-minded groups and individuals

We love to hear about the needs people see and the problems they’re trying to solve in their communities.

We work with individuals, groups and municipalities to explore the various ways strategic alliances and collaboration can help them achieve their goals. We help them identify partners, build relationships and develop (or join) the right co-ops to meet their needs.

From addressing affordable childcare and housing to creating new businesses to foster economic development, to strengthening local food systems and farm to table connections and more, if we work together we can make it happen.

The strategic advantages and opportunities offered through the co-op model are needed now more than ever.

• Affordable childcare and housing

• Community investment and shared local ownership

• Democratic and economic control over things that impact our household expenses

• Living wage jobs and employee ownership

• Profit sharing and reduced fees

We educate people about what co-ops are, how they work, and how to make them work for you.

There are different co-ops to meet the needs of different people:

• Aspiring entrepreneurs

• Business owners

• Customers/consumers

• Farmers/Producers

• Renters

• Workers