Awareness

One of COPAC’s main activities is to promote and raise awareness about cooperative enterprises – what they are, how they are different from investor-owned business and their significant economic, social and environmental contributions to society.

Despite the fact that cooperatives have nearly one billion members worldwide, employ and generate income for 250 million people worldwide and boast revenues of USD 2.2 trillion within the 300 largest cooperatives alone, they remain an under-utilised and under-recognised form of enterprise.

Learn more about cooperatives here.

COPAC’s work on raising awareness includes the following: