The BCA Group is made up of volunteers, the majority of whom are successful business persons. Over the last twenty years, we have created a pool of investment capital for businesses located on Cape Breton Island. It is in response to the capital drain into major metropolitan centers. The general objective is community development and improvement through the use of innovative business tools.
From Mondragon To America - Experiments In Community Economic Development
Mondragon, in Spain, is the most successful worker-owned cooperative corporation in the world with sales of over $ 20 Billon and over 80,000 workers. Recognized by the United Nations as one of the top social economic experiments in the world, it includes over 100 enterprises making products as diverse as yoghurt to automobile parts. They have their own cooperative bank, a cooperative university and one of the largest retail chains in Spain. It is fascinating. Greg MacLeod has many friends involved in this unique community enterprise in Basque Spain. The book also describes the experience of MacLeod in Cape Breton and Mexico. This is the third printing. It also appeared in Japanese and is being translated into Korean
$ 19.95 185 pages, Greg MacLeod, Tompkins Institute, Cape Breton University ISBN --0-920336-53-1
May be ordered through www.gaeliccollege.edu/craftshop or www.capebretonbooks.com
How To Start A Community Enterprise - A Personal Approach
Professor Greg MacLeod of Cape Breton University has over 30 years of experience in organizing community enterprises such as New Dawn Enterprises with assets of over $ 20 million and BCA, a community investment group. Based on his personal experience he illustrates how to launch a business by community activists in seven simple steps. He shows that success is based on personal relationships. You can find him on YOUTUBE
$ 9.95 80 pages Greg MacLeod Tompkins Institute, Cape Breton University ISBN 978-0-973682-2-5
May be ordered through www.gaeliccollege.edu/craftshop or www.capebretonbooks.com