CWCF has a Racial Justice Action Plan with the long-term objective of a worker co-operative movement in Canada which is racially diverse, inclusive, and just. To help achieve this objective, CWCF has established a racial justice granting pool. This granting pool is allocated to projects led by individuals who are Black, Indigenous or other People of Colour (BIPOC), and groups which are majority BIPOC, and projects must support racial justice in the worker co-op sector in Canada via promotion, development and/or education initiatives.
CWCF is pleased to announce the recent awarding of grants to five projects:
- BWP Co-op to develop a series of onboarding training videos designed to educate and empower new members by introducing them to the foundational elements of cooperative membership.
- SETSI to convene four capacity strengthening webinars amplifying the cooperative principles and reinforcing the importance of ensuring a thriving future for the cooperative movement in Canada.
- Tyche Media Co-op to produce a thirty-minute documentary that explores the worker cooperative model through the stories of BIPOC-led co-ops within Solid State Community Industries.
- Seize the Means of Production Video Co-op to deliver a public panel webinar on the significance of worker co-ops within the racial justice movement and create a public art window display in Vancouver’s Chinatown celebrating co-ops’ contributions to racial justice.
- Sankofa Farming Co-operative to take CoopZone’s Co-op Developer Training.