Financing & Credit unions

Brief Description:

Financial co-operatives form a vast network around the world today. Broadly-speaking, they can be grouped into three kinds of co-operatives: community-based co-operative banks, co-operative banks owned by co-operatives, sometimes with considerable state involvement and co-operative insurance companies either owned by other co-operative organisations or through a mutual structure.

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A series of toolboxes that can be purchased through the Northcountry Cooperative Foundation, they include: "Financial Management for Directors and Managers of Natural Food Co-ops","The Governance Toolbox", "The Ownership Toolbox", "A Relationship of Respect: Evaluating Your General Manager", "Hiring a General Manager", "The Cooperative Housing Conversion Toolbox", and "Expansions and Relocations Toolbox".

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Desjardins Group, the subsidiaries and the caisses have as their mission to contribute to the improved economic and social well-being of people and groups within the compatible limits of its field of activity.

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The Réseau d'investissement social du Québec is a non-profit-making venture capital fund whose mission is to provide financing to partnership businesses. Its objective is to support the economic development of partnership businesses by injecting monies that act as a financial lever to implement their projects.

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The Canadian Alternative Investment Co-op is a fund formed in the early 1980's by a number of relifious communities who wanted to pool their resources in order to make investment that support positive social change and alternative economic structures. CAIC has since grown to forty-eight members with a lending pool of approximately $7 million invested in worthwhile projects across Canada. Our borrowers are building alternative economic structures that are supportive of worker cooperatives, disadvantaged peoples and the environment.

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Regulating Manitoba's co-operatives, credit unions, and caisse populaires.

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Caisse is a bilingual financial co-operative where, as a member, you are also an owner who profits from our success.

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Servicing Acadien Caisses Populaires in New Brunswick.

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The Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) regulates: Auto Insurance, Co-operatives, Credit Unions, Caisses Populaires, Insurance, Loan & Trust Companies, Mortgage Brokers, Motor Vehicle Acci