The following organizations have received MSC Fund grants from the Cooperative Development Foundation to develop co-op projects that aim to enhance the quality of health care for seniors.
To start, support, and strengthen home care cooperatives
- Three grants to Cooperative Care, a home care cooperative in rural Wisconsin to educate care-givers for seniors and to create a training program for home care cooperative member/owners
- Two grants to Circle of Life, a home care cooperative in rural Washington to do a market analysis and strategic planning while in the start-up stage and to do community education for seniors and senior needs after the cooperative was launched
- One grant to the Northwest Cooperative Development Center to help start Paradise Home Care cooperative in rural Hawaii
- One grant to CAP Services in Wisconsin to build a collection of resources for home care development
- Two grants to the Direct Care Alliance for a tool kit on how to start and manage a home care cooperative, training for home care workers in the cooperative business model, a credential program for direct care workers, and a marketing plan in collaboration with Cooperative Care
To develop a social services cooperative for seniors
- One grant to Aging in Place-Glens Falls to establish a social services cooperative in rural New York for seniors who wish to age in place
To develop and track a “village”
- One grant to NCB Capital Impact to develop and track a “village” in rural Nebraska
To build a small-scale rural cooperative housing cluster
- One grant to the Foundation for Rural Housing to design and build a cooperatively owned cluster of manufactured homes for seniors in rural Wisconsin
To convert rural mobile home parks from private to cooperative ownership through education and technical assistance
- Two grants to the Rural Community Assistance Corporation to educate mobile home park residents and convert parks to co-op ownership in California
- One grant to the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund to convert parks to co-op ownership in New England
- One grant to the Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation to convert parks to co-op ownership in California
- Two grants to ROC (Resident Owned Communities) USA to convert parks to co-op ownership in New England and New York
For a feasibility study
- One grant to do a feasibility study of a purchasing co-op for senior housing co-ops
To start a cooperative grocery store
- One grant to start a cooperative grocery store in a rural community in Nebraska