What We're Working On
The United Community Services Co-op is responsive to the needs of our members. Other than the various Products and Services we provide reguarlly to members, here are some of the interesting activities and projects we are currently involved in through our popular Strategic Consulting Partnership service:
Strategic Planning
- Organizational restructuring
- Successor ship planning
- Board governance facilitating
Human Resources Support
- Compensation benchmarking
- Policy writing
- Short-term recruiting
- Executive/management recruiting
- Consultation on grievances, labour relations
- Emergency executive director/management coverage
- Performance management
- Staff mediation
Projects
- Co-op Development - We work with communities and organizaitons to guide them through the creation and building of new co-operatives
- Quality Child Care Initiative Project - A child care substitute pool concept
- Vancity Community Foundation - Studying the impact of social enterprise on the parent organization
- BC Social Economy Roundtable - UCSC provides secretariat services for the Roundtable and is a participating organization for the coalition
