One Big Co-op!
The Bay Area Cooperative Association (BACA) is growing into an economically and ecologically resilient network of individuals and organizations supporting cooperatives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Vision
We believe another future is possible: one in which individuals have full agency in their lives, organizations are oriented around meeting shared needs, instead of maximization of profit, and all members of our community work together in cooperation to create an ecologically sustainable and economically equitable society. To do so, we will need to leave behind extractive and exploitative modes of thinking and living, and we will create new ways to build a world worth living in, together.
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The seven principles that apply to every cooperative
Beautiful image shared by KRED – Modern Digital Banking for Cooperative Credit Societies The cooperative sector is broad, containing organizations across sectors: bakeries, child care companies, coffee shops, pizzerias, dairy farms, bookkeeping companies, and more! What gives these organizations a common language and values? The Rochdale Principles are the basis for every cooperative. As we’ll…
Another future is possible
Even before the pandemic, the San Francisco Bay Area was reaching untenable levels of inequality and dysfunction in fundamental aspects of society like housing and wealth equity — now, the pandemic has laid bare that basic needs aren’t met by capitalism as we know it. We need change. Fortunately for us — another future is…
Launching bayarea.coop on the 100th International Day of Cooperatives!
As local cooperators, we are reaching out to our regional cooperatives and cooperative supporters with a re-launch of the Bay Area Cooperative Association, including a fresh online presence here at bayarea.coop. Today is the 100th International #CoopsDay and the theme, aptly, is #CoopsBuildABetterWorld. We believe that the cooperative model has potential to help make possible…
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