Co-operative Crowdfunding Monitor
We're keen to help promote and support fundraising campaigns being run by co-ops. Because co-operatives use various different platforms for their crowdfunding projects around the world, there's no single source where you can see all of the information in one place. So we thought we'd have a go at trying to provide a list, to improve visibility and hopefully make it a bit easier for people and organisations who want to invest in co-operative projects to find them.
This list is almost certainly not exhaustive, so we are keen to hear from you if you know of an upcoming or live co-op crowdfunding campaign, please let us know by using this form or sending us a tweet.
We'll also be tweeting about the campaigns listed here through the Co-op Crowdfunding Alerts Twitter account.
| Cooperative | website | Campaign | More info |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clean City Cooperative | Link | Clean City Cooperative Go Fund Me Campaign |
A co-operative that seeks to help every community in Nepal build and operate its’ own waste management center, reducing the waste footprint by 90% and providing an economic vehicle for Nepalese people. |
| Food Cooperative in the Bolivian Amazon | Link | GoFundMe campaign |
Bolivian Amazon Food Cooperative |
| ART Business Loans | Link | Invest in ART Business Loans to enable them to lend on to SMEs in the West Midlands (UK) |
http://artbusinessloans.co.uk |
| Arizmendi Emeryville | Link | Worker-owned bakery cooperative founded in Emeryville in 2013 suffered from a fire |
Arizmendi Bakery, Emeryville branch |
| Egni Co-op | Link | Egni Coop Share Offer - interest projected at 4%/year and capital to be repaid over 20 years. |
Egni Co-op develops rooftop solar energy in Wales. |
| The Hive at de bees | Link | The Hive will make de bees a cultural focal point for Winsford which will act as a catalyst to re-ignite the economy and sense of community. |
The Hive |
| MACAZ Bar Theatre Coop | Link | Macaz Autonom Community Center in Bucharest | |
| Equal Care Co-operative | Link | Equal Care Co-op pioneer community share issue |
Equal Care |
| St Ives Community Land Trust | Link | Raising up to £500,000 to provide six vital, permanently affordable homes for key workers and other local people, secured under an asset lock for future generations. |
St Ives Community Land Trust |
| The Manchester Meteor | Link | Launch of the Manchester Meteor media co-operative Crowdfunder campaign |
The Meteor is a not-for-profit, independent media project – an alternative, radical, community-based publication for the people of Manchester. |
| iOS and Android wallet solution for FairCoin that will have all of the basic sending and receiving features. | Link | FairWallet Crowdfunding Campaign |
FairCoop |
| B4RN | Link | Broadband For The Rural North is crowdfunding to quadruple the size of its successful community-owned fibre-optic ultrafast broadband network in northern England |
Broadband For The Rural North |
| Help establish farming and credit cooperatives in Timor Leste. | Link | Timor Cooperation Starts With Us |
888 Co-operative & Agricultural and credit cooperatives in Timor Leste |
| Netham Weir Hydro-Electric Scheme | Link | Netham Weir Hydro-Electric Scheme |
Bristol Energy Cooperative |
| Become an owner of Devon's New Lion Brewery | Link | Take your LionShare of an award-winning brewery |
New Lion Brewery |
| The Village Green Share Offer | Link | The Village Green Share Offer |
The Village Green - A community-owned & run grocer for Marsden |
| Carbondale Spring Fat Patties Cooperative Fundraiser Campaign | Link | Carbondale Spring Fat Patties Cooperative fundraiser |
Carbondale Spring Fat Patties Cooperative |
| Tightshift Worker Cooperative | Link | Tightshift Worker Cooperative Go Fund Me Campaign |
Worker cooperative started by and centering on formerly incarcerated people providing moving, hauling, landscaping, and cleaning services in the DC metro area. |
| The Foster Closet Cooperative | Link | The Foster Closet Cooperative Go Fund Me Campaign |
A co-operative that has served more than 80 children by providing clothing for when they come into care. |
| ReForest ATL | Link | ReForest ATL Go Fund Me Campaign |
ReForest ATL is a worker owned cooperative endeavors to rescue and reinvigorate the forests of the Atlanta area using the most current ecological practices, with special attention to native flora. |
| Co-op Cafe Worker Collective | Link | Help start the first worker co-op cafe in NYC! |
Current and former service industry workers who have come together to start the first worker cooperative cafe in New York City. |
| Student Housing Coops Community Share Offer | Link | Student Housing Coop Community Share Offer |
Student Housing Coop |
| Ekopia | Link | Ekopia is seeking investment for their Housing Project which is supporting three affordable housing developments |
Ekopia Resource Exchange |
| Valley Organics | Link | Valley Organics in Hebden Bridge is fundraising using a loanstock issue to help fund a move to new premises. |
Valley Organics worker co-operative |
| Anarres Housing Cooperative | Link | Anarres Housing Cooperative Loanstock Investment |
Anarres Housing Cooperative |
| Foundation East | Link | Investments in this mutual society's withdrawable shares are used to lend on to social purpose organisation s and businesses in the region. |
https://www.foundationeast.org/ |
| London Capital Credit Union | Link | London Capital Credit Union Deferred Shares |
London Capital Credit Union is a financial co-operative, owned and controlled by its members providing financial services to communities across London. |
| Women-led Reforestation in Peru | Link | Grow Ahead has teamed up with CAC Pangoa to support a women-run reforestation project in the Peruvian Amazon. |
Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Pangoa (CAC Pangoa) |
| Co-operative & Community Finance (ICOF) | Link | Invest in Co-operative & Community Finance |
Co-operative & Community Finance (ICOF) |
