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About Coop Sol
The Coopérative de Solidarité du Café Equitable is a newly founded cooperative based in Quebec, but intricately linked to its sister coop - Cooperative Coffees, Americus, GA. It is a voluntary association offering communication and promotional services associated to fair trade goods, practices and quality related issues. These services are provided to the members of Cooperative Coffees, its Southern producer partners, and its support members.
We are a tri-lingual office and serve as a communications center between Cooperative Coffees and Producer Partners, facilitating the planning and logistics of our coffee contracts, verifying that quality standards are met (currently via our contract with Coffee Labs) and offering feedback to producers. We also help circulate producer information to CC roaster members either directly or via our website. Relating these tasks to the current Cooperative Coffees committee structure and organizing logic, the Canadian office will ultimately be responsible for overseeing work plans and activities stemming from the Green Committee; Communications, Best Practices, and Green Desk Mechanics. ; and Outreach and Consumer Education.
Board of Directors
Goals
The co-operative is structured as a solidarity co-operative having the following goals:
- To operate and strengthen a socially responsible business in the field of fair trade goods ;
- To contribute to the economic prosperity of its members ;
- To continually improve the quality of our relationships and of the fair trade products and services we provide ;
- To assure continuity and congruency with our values for social justice throughout our trading links “from the seed to the finished cup”.
Functions
Coop Sol's mandate is to help Coop Coffees foster strong producer relationships, in order to import fair trade and organic coffee in accordance with mission and values.
- Excellent Communications
- Promoting Best Practices
- Taking Care of Mechanics
History
Find out how and why Coop Sol was created. Get all the details here.
Committees
The heart of our cooperative's governance, policy and procedural work
is the volunteer committee structure. All issues that confront our coop
are screened by the question "Which committee is most capable of
addressing the issue". Members of Cooperative Coffees are expected to
serve actively on at least one committee and many roasters have 3 or
more staff persons involved in the work of our committees. Take at the Green Bean Committee, the committee CoopSol is closely involved with
Producer Voice
Learn more about the producer voice within our organization, where in producer come in as equal members to the CoopSol structure to advise on policies, and take part in our activities here.
Staff
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Cooperative Coffees' staff is shared between our two offices, our main office in Americus, and our producer relations office/Coop Sol office in Montreal. These are the folks that make the day to day operations of this organization possible. Meet our staff.
Helpful Diagram of Structure.
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These illustrate (in technicolor!) the task division between CoopCoffees the Americus office, and CoopSolidaridad, the Montreal Office. Take a look.
Contact Us
211 Jarry E. St.
Montreal, Quebec
H2P 1T6
Phone: 514 907 9853 ext 3.
