The Whole Women Network (WWN Co-op) is a worker cooperative focused on providing culturally informed financial resilience coaching, co-operative enterprise training, and peer-to-peer funding based on an iterated version of the traditional SUSU and community-based 'village banking' model.

SUSU, also known as ROSCA, is an informal financial cooperative with African roots where individuals contribute funds regularly to learn, save, borrow, and invest together. WWN Co-op targets BIPOC Women and Youth, New Immigrants and other historically underestimated and underserved demographics, aiming to address financial literacy & inclusion gaps and limited access to capital, particularly for 'Nano' and Micro Business Owners who serve unique community needs.

WWN is committed to fostering financial inclusion, agency, dignity & shared prosperity, by bridging the gaps between formal and informal cooperative institutions. Key programs: [FLOW, FLY, Debt Doula, Road to 800, P2P Funding]®

One of their proprietary approaches, called the "SUSU Solidarity Score" builds credit using a care economy lens to analyze members' creditworthiness using 10 Cs (Character, Community, Compassion/Care, Culture, Capacity, Capital/Cash Flow, Contribution, Courage, Commitment & Cooperative Economics).

WWN Co-op aims for a significant capital raise to expand its services and build a robust online learning management system, membership and peer-to-peer funding platform.

WWN is a cohort member of the City of Richmond Hill's CLIC Program (Centre for Local Innovation and Collaboration).

At WWN Co-op, we are re-imagining and co-creating a world where: no one is left behind; finance is inclusive & decolonized; the varied forms of capital are valued & money is simply a tool to foster the highest common good & shared purpose for People, Planet & Prosperity.

𝐖𝐖𝐍 𝐂𝐨-𝐨𝐩 — 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐒𝐔𝐒𝐔 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐎𝐰𝐧; 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐬 & 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬.®

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