The Community Purchasing Alliance

CPA Co-op leverages the buying power of community institutions to accelerate progress towards sustainability, equity, and justice.

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

After a decade of service and impact at CPA Co-op, our much-valued colleague, collaborator, and founding Executive Director Felipe Witchger is moving on to exciting new endeavors in impact-first investing. https://t.co/HSeFhGqXiK @cubaenergy

[Alison Powers @AlisonPowersCIP]

I participated in the Building an Equitable and Inclusive Local Co-op Ecosystem in DC at @NCBACLUSA Impact Conference with @Wacif, Earthbound Building and @CPACoop. Highlighting the intersection of co-ops development and racial justice. #CoopIMPACT #gocoop @capitalimpact

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

"[CPA] helped Mount Lebanon Baptist Church, a historically Black Washington, D.C., congregation, replace a $30,000 HVAC system for which the congregation took out a 20-year loan." Read more about our work in the @washingtonpost

https://t.co/oeHYlPSKSO

[Ownership Matters @owning_matters]

Issue #5:
Building the commons through steward ownership • How business investors & cooperative entrepreneurs can get together • Seeing the whole with doughnut economics • the Inclusive Capital Collective • July 14: collective decision-making workshop

https://t.co/G0reGwNLdm

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

Our team is growing -- come work with us!
>>>>>> Apply to be our next DC based Program Director https://t.co/Nl5z5yfm41

[NYS Energy Research and Development Authority @NYSERDA]

Read @Pvmagazineusa on our new $4M initiative w/ @MetroIAF @CPACoop and @BlocPower to help religious groups + other anchor institutions in disadvantaged communities:
✅Advance #EnergyEfficiency
✅Transition off fossil fuels
✅Adopt retrofits
✅Create jobs
https://t.co/vJnGrmxvAQ

[NYS Energy Research and Development Authority @NYSERDA]

Check out @NewProjectMedi1 to learn about our initiative with @MetroIAF, @BlocPower and @CPACoop to help faith & other anchor institutions in NY’s underserved communities adopt job-creating #EnergyEfficiency and electrification retrofit projects.
➡️ https://t.co/szP8c7B4Ju

[Everything Co-op @EverythingCoop]

LIVE NOW: Paul Hazen, President of @usocdc, and Co-Founder of @CPACoop on the role of co-ops in community and economic development in a post-COVID-19 World #gocoop #cooperatives #equity #localsustainability https://t.co/E9VIjtYDtF

[OCDC @usocdc]

Paul Hazen will sit down with Vernon Oakes, host of Everything Co-op, to discuss the role of cooperatives in community and economic development in a post-COVID-19 world.

Tune into WOL 1450 AM or listen online July 23 (Tomorrow) at 10:30 am

More Info: https://t.co/aBEXvtSmlM

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

Are you a nonprofit in need of PPE? Join us tomorrow for our group call. More details here: https://t.co/2MIVNRBiTl

[CONECT_CT @CONECT_CT]

Nice piece about our work in CT w @CPACoop to bring congregations & community institutions together save money and exercise organized money power - thanks to Lisa Prevost for picking up the story https://t.co/He2ljTxIhZ

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

CPA Co-op's 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting starting at 3:30pm today. Are you planning to join us? Register here: https://t.co/Rl6mVfOTVg #neweconomy #cooperatives

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

Join us in building a new economy. RSVP to our virtual annual meeting on June 24: https://t.co/Rl6mVfOTVg

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

You can buy your masks from black-owned businesses here. #m4bl our first #coop #PPE purchase for #schools, congregations, and #SmallBusiness of all sizes across the country. i.e. $45 for "no contact" thermometers usually at $75+ https://t.co/YKk8YOvrGw

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

Bells ring at CPA Member Foundry United Methodist Church as members pass out water and supplies. #BlackLivesMatterDC https://t.co/ctLiniNF7u

[Daniella Cheslow @DaniellaCheslow]

The Foundry Methodist Church on 16th and I St at 9p tonight. As protesters pass, associate pastor Will Green rings church bell in support. Says his church has been handing out water, supplies since yesterday. Trumps photo opp galvanized religious support for #WashingtonDCProtest

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

All of us at the Community Purchasing Alliance wish to say, in no uncertain terms, that we stand with Black communities and everyone who is hurting in the wake of George Floyd’s violent death in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Read full statement)

[The Democracy at Work Institute @WeAreDAWI]

Today at 3 p.m. ET we'll will join @Wacif @CPACoop for a conversation about tools and ideas for joining, building, and converting to worker cooperatives. Join us! https://t.co/ILssKBeMUs

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

Thursday 4/21: Learn from local cooperative development experts (including CPA's @cubaenergy): tools and ideas for joining, building, and converting into a cooperative. https://t.co/SyD2jkw4oM

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

79 DMV leaders joined our team yesterday to discuss our upcoming group energy purchase. "We are definitely in for this go around... CPA makes it easy. Easy to understand, easy to participate. I appreciate all the heavy lifting that you all do.” https://t.co/bwrTST9ZgK #DMV #DC

[The Community Purchasing Alliance @CPACoop]

Our group energy purchase call is tomorrow at 3:30pm. Have you registered? https://t.co/UfeVKwmRr7