Whether you’re looking to join a cooperative, partner with like-minded organizations, or simply learn more about the cooperative movement, bookmark this developing page to help you “help yourself” and/or “find yourself.” Explore the diverse world of cooperatives and see how cooperation is shaping a better future for all.
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The Philippine central bank, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), through Monetary Board Resolution No. 901 dated 23 June 2022 approved the consolidation of Metro South Cooperative Bank, Consolidated Cooperative Bank and Bataan Cooperative Bank to form a new cooperative bank to be known as One Cooperative Bank (One CB).
Expect more consolidations coming!
Let’s grow this Coop Page
You can add more information to this dedicated page, e.g. branch locations, members, services, etc., thru iCoop, whose mission is to help grow cooperative circular economies in the Philippines, ASEAN and around the world. We want—
at least 42% of Filipinos to be members of cooperatives!
A feature video in the meantime. And another,
One Mind, One Body
Take care of your family and coop members. Join OneCoopHealth asap! Healthcare.coop’s mission is to help grow the first and only co-operative HMO in the Philippines.
CoopPay is the Way
Tell your family OFWs to say goodbye to exorbitant cross-border OFW remittance fees! CoopPay is the first Lightning wallet for cooperatives in the world. A future super app. An everything app.
Visit the Coop BookShop
You can try using CoopPay at Buy.coop, aka The Co-operative Exchange. In the tradition of The Co-operative Knowledgebase and The New Co-operator., we are starting with (hearts and) minds.
We love cats, the ultimate self-help animal, and we love—yes, books! But we’re on a hunt for the best consumer products produced by coops in the Philippines and Asia. Expect more on this soon!
Let’s build our Circular Economies
We’re not just building circular cooperative economies. We’re building circular bitcoin economies, too. We bring Light. . . to cooperatives, and . . .ning bridges our circular universes.
And if there’s Bitcoin Island, there ought to be a Bitcoin Town. But every town is a cooperative town, and every town is a bitcoin town. So make your town a cooperative + bitcoin town!
Support Chat.coop!
Yes, you can support Chat.coop and all other works by sending contributions “in kind,” i.e. thank you for your kind heart, to the Lightning Addresses coop@pouch.ph and lightningcoop@blink.sv or by using the online payment link https://app.pouch.ph/coop.
You can use CoopPay, you can use Pouch, you can use Blink, you can use Strike, you can use Coinos, it will work just the same. Why? Because Lightning is an open protocol, which is open for anyone to adopt. If you are a cooperative, learn more at Lightning.coop.
Special Thanks
To Law.net.ph for providing the design, engineering, communications and advisory firepower to these circular economy projects.
