About Coop Sol

The Coopérative de Solidarité du Café Equitable is a solidarity cooperative based in Montreal, Quebec and 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.

coopsolmeeting2 The coop itself is comprised of individuals, organizations, and businesses with a like-minded objective to deepen Fair Trade and the relationships that it helps sustain.

On the administrative side of things, 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 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

Meet our board.

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.

To provide excellent communication
To promote among members and affiliates
To manage logistics and mechanics of importation process in tandem with Cooperative Coffees.

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History

Find out how and why Coop Sol was created. Get all the details here.

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

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.