We Care: Promoting the co-operative model

January 10, 2014

This story is an excerpt from FCL's 2013 Social Responsibility Report. Find this story and more on our environmental and sustainability efforts, community investment and employee engagement in FCL's first report to the community.

From youth leadership camps and university campuses to provincial co-operative associations and third-world countries, we are promoting the sustainability and success of the co-operative model.

During the past year, Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) has invested more than $1 million to support the development and growth of the co-operative model in Western Canada and around the world, including these:

• $64,000 to co-op youth camps and provincial 4-H councils
• $100,000 to help fund a Chair in Co-operative Enterprises at the University of Winnipeg’s Faculty of Business and Economics
• $135,000 to the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
• $160,000 to the four provincial co-operative associations in Western Canada
• Over $300,000 to the Canadian Co-operative Association
• $500,000 to the Co-operative Development Foundation of Canada to support emerging co-operatives in Asia, Africa and Latin America

“By encouraging the development and growth of the co-operative model, we are helping develop the leadership skills that will help individuals through life as they serve on co-operative boards, local government, health boards, school boards or other community-based organizations,” says Glen Tully, President of FCL. 

“For us it’s about building leadership capacity for our sector and making our communities stronger.”

Participants of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Youth Program