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Allied Community and Co-operative Shared Services (ACCESS) is “a shared service nonprofit co-operative specifically formed to provide professional administrative back-office support for social purpose organizations”. The newly started nonprofit co-operative provides professional administrative back-office support for social purpose organizations, like co-ops and non-profits. ACCESS currently offers services for:
- Accounting
- Legal
- Managed office IT services
- Website development
- Website hosting (including our hosting company https://cantrusthosting.coop/)
- Human Resources
If you’re interested in finding out more about ACCESS and its service offerings check out their website https://sharedservices.coop/
ACCESS was born of the collective efforts the Alberta Community Co-operative Association (ACCA), British Columbia Co-operative Association (BCCA), Volunteer Alberta (VA), Econocoop. Their goal is to provide member organizations with the variety of services they need to be successful. There are no additional fees except to pay for the services used. This is an easy way to find all the experts for your co-op or non-profit needs and saves you the time of not having to search and vet your own experts. They truly are living the 6th co-operative principle of Co-operation among Co-operatives.
Each For All’s Robin Puga sat down with Danielle Hastings, Operations and Members Services manager, and Corinne Remple, Director of Shared Services, to find out more about this innovative new co-op; have a listen.
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