The United Co-op Appeal (UCA) is an annual workplace giving program that is managed by the Cooperative Development Foundation. UCA raises funds for non-profit organizations that use the cooperative business model to bring economic development to individuals and communities throughout the United States and around the world. Through CDF’s participation in the UCA campaign our family of 6 specific funds also oare eligible to receive contributions through this program. Since it began in 1992, UCA has raised over $1.5 million to support cooperatives and cooperative development organizations.
If you are interested in being a recipient organization, host organization, or contributor, please contact Terence Buen at tbuen@cdf.coop or 703-302-8097. Click here for the brochure for the 2011 campaign, which provides information about UCA and the organizations that receive contributions through UCA. Thanks to the generosity of the Nationwide Insurance Foundation, the administrative costs of the program are covered and 100% of every dollar contributed goes to the recipient cooperative development organizations.
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
Here are last year’s recipient organizations:
- ACDI/VOCA
- The CDF Fund
- Cooperative Development Institute (CDI)
- Cooperative Development Services (CDS)
- Cooperative Emergency Fund
- Cooperative Fund of New England
- The Cooperative Innovation Fund
- CHF International
- Federation of Southern Cooperatives / Land Assistance Fund
- The ICA Group
- Jim Jones Fund
- MSC Fund
- National Network of Forest Practitioner (NNFP)
- NRECA International Foundation
- Northwest Cooperative Development Center
- Shirley K. Sullivan Fund
- Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security (WAGES)