Dear Community, Exciting news! The Big Carrot Community Market in Toronto is looking for a passionate anddynamic individual to join our team as the new Operations Manager. This is a uniqueopportunity to lead and innovate within our worker-owned health food market, driving ourmission to provide high-quality, community-focused service. We are seeking a candidate with a … Operations Manager – The Big Carrot Community Market
By Kenzie Love and Hazel Corcoran As Simon Kinsey observes in his recent case study, Value and Challenges of the Worker Co-op Model, the value of the worker co-op model, in offering workers the power to be collectively self-employed and to be able to disengage from the exploitative wage labour market, is clear. It’s also … How CWCF Is Addressing the Challenges of the Worker Co-op Model
By Hazel Corcoran CWCF runs a program called the Common Good Capital Registered Plan Program. Through this program, worker co-ops, other types of co-ops, Community Economic Development funds, and related entities can have qualified shares or bonds held in self-directed registered plans, specifically RRSPs and TFSAs. This is helpful in capitalizing eligible enterprises, for both … CWCF Seeks to Facilitate Use of RRSPs and TFSAs in Co-ops
By Kenzie Love The Greek term metanoia refers to a shift in one’s orientation, one Winnipeg’s Metanoia Farmers Workers Co-operative chose to highlight the processes its members were seeking to incorporate when the farm was founded in 2011. “They chose the name because they wanted it to reflect a turning of orientation towards how … Metanoia Farmers Seek to Learn from the Land
Featured this week: A Consultant position within the Skills Branch The consultant will be responsible for delivering financial literacy workshops for young people, coordinating and facilitating pre-incubation and incubation programs, and promoting these programs while ensuring participant satisfaction. The profile sought includes a degree in humanities, social sciences, administration, education, economics or law, experience … Opportunities with Impact ON
Call for AGM Resolutions Resolutions for the CWCF AGM in November are due on September 20, 2024, for the virtual AGM which will take place on November 20th. Please see the CWCF Resolutions process, including the Resolutions Form on the last page, at this link. Please submit resolutions to Resolutions Committee members Jessica Provencher and … Call for Resolutions and Awards
By Kenzie Love BMP Solidarity Co-op is located on the site of a former bar purchased in 2021 by the Société de Développement Communautaire Milton Parc, one of North America’s largest community land trusts, which subsequently extended a vote to the community on what to do with the space. Community members came out in favour … BMP Co-op Celebrates Solidarity