Our Story
Stories, insights, and updates from our programs, partnerships, and community initiatives.
Collective Interchange was conceived by a group of women who wanted to work differently and create greater impacts in their community.
As we began articulating the mission and values of Collective Interchange, we quickly realized our vision for the organization didn’t fit into any of the non-profit structures we had spent our careers working with. After reaching out to our national network, we learned that our goals might be more aligned with a co-operative structure.
In 2015, we connected with the Newfoundland-Labrador Federation of Co-operatives, which helped us explore the possibilities of this creative enterprise structure. The incorporation of this multi-stakeholder network provides members with a legal operating structure to champion non-profit and charitable initiatives based on co-operative principles and collaborative work.
Collective Interchange is about heart and passion for change. Its founders have worked across non-profit, for-profit, and public sectors. Armed with our diverse strengths, we resource people and organizations to meet their goals.
Collective Interchange was created differently to work differently:
- It serves the collective interests and passions of its members within the context of service delivery principles of fairness, justice, responsiveness, and cost effectiveness.
- Our collective energy aims to fill gaps within the community by tackling projects with a clear start and end in sight.
- Our flexible, low overhead business model helps direct more resources to the work rather than keeping the lights on.