Coop57 is a cooperative of ethical and solidarity financial services that regroups 700 social and solidarity economy organizations. In 2015, it financed more than 200 projects of the solidarity economy through a participative, self-administered tool adapted to the needs of its member organizations. In the last few years, one of its priorities has been to become an active agent contributing to the local development of the social and solidarity economy and the feminist economy, in cooperation with civil society, the networks of the solidarity economy,  social movements and  local governments. Consequently, it has developed cooperation projects with many local governments, particularly with city councils. Some of these collaborations will be presented, and an emphasis will be placed on presenting their results and the supported projects, particularly in the Catalonian city of Sabadell.

The Corporación Nacional de Finanzas Populares y Solidarias (National Corporation for Popular and Solidarity Finance, CONAFIPS) is the first public financial institution at the service of the popular and solidarity finance sector in Ecuador. Its goal is to support the expansion and the strengthening of the organizations of the popular and solidarity finance sector (OPSFSs) in order to include the entrepreneurs of popular and solidarity economy in the territories, by boosting their local development capacities. As a development bank, together with the local governments and different ministries,  CONAFIPS works in coordination with the organizations of the popular and solidarity finance sector. These organizations generate social capital, i.e. the capacity to cooperate and to act as a group in order to achieve sustainable goals aiming particularly at combating marginalization, poverty and unfair distribution of wealth. In general, OPSFSs arise from already existing collective structures such such as communes, producer associations, grassroots organizations, development cooperatives and others.

Community currency innovations in Kenya have given rise to a new way to access and issue credit for more than 600 businesses since their creation. By forming networks of hundreds of small businesses and schools, members can formalize informal debt structures and assets into a medium of exchange to augment a chronic lack of national currency. Community currencies offer the informal sector businesses -over 50% of the African economies and majoritarily run by women – a way to access credit and also take part in participatory municipal financing by collecting taxes in community currencies.

Jadopteunprojet.com is a crowdfunding solidarity tool created by and for the local stakeholders of the Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes Region, where everything is implemented to generate interactions between “solidarity citizens”, “project carriers” and “support stakeholders” (public and private). The choice of a human-sized platform enables us to be closer to our entrepreneurs and also to contributing to the economic development of our territory. The proposed projects have strong social, environmental or cultural added value. All the project carriers benefit from the support of the partners in the project, which guarantees the trust and viability of the initiatives to supported through the platform. From its creation to its implementation, even to its functioning, jadopteunprojet.com is the result of synergy between Social and Solidarity Economy structures. The partnerships have been developed in an inclusive way given that the platform is seen as a common good by everybody.

INAISE (International Association of Investors in the Social Economy) is an international network of organizations aimed at financing SSE and environmental projects. Created in Barcelona, Spain, in 1989 at the initiative of 7 financial social economy organizations, INAISE has experienced a rapid growth linked to the development of the social and solidarity finance movement which has quickly increased in number, in visibility and in importance in most of the European and non-European countries.
INAISE allows social investors from Norway to South Africa and from Costa Rica to Japan to join forces in order to exchange their experiences, disseminate information and show that money can really be used as a tool for social and environmental change.