There is a better way
Resilient Growth is dedicated to helping people from all walks of life discover the benefits of the collective ownership. We aim to enable people to do business differently by facilitating collaborative co-founding processes and collective capacity building. Through combining community economic development, business administration and strategic planning, we aim to empower organizers and entrepreneurs to build a new economy that is rooted in people and the planet.
Olivia Champagne
Olivia Champagne is a white settler who envisions, organizes and coordinates strategies to prioritize the needs of human and non-human communities over dominate market forces. She grew up on the Coast Salish Territory where ecological and economic precariousness shaped her political and ideological values. Over the last 6 years, she has worked with sustainability, social justice, solidarity economy community organizations in every capacity from Executive Director to Volunteer. She currently lives on the Haudenosaunee and Mohawk Territory of Montreal where she provides business development, financial administration, and project leadership consultations.
Grad. D. Business Administration, John Molson Business School, Concordia University
Grad. D. Community Economic Development, Concordia University
B.A. Economics and Environmental Studies, University of Victoria
Co-founded Organizations:
Coops4Coops
Coops4Coops is a national directory and network championing “cooperation among cooperatives” by connecting co‑ops with service providers across Canada. It empowers cooperatives to share knowledge, benchmark practices, and pool resources, enabling them to scale, innovate, and better compete with conventional businesses. Ultimately, it aims to strengthen the broader co‑operative ecosystem by keeping transactions within the co‑op economy and activating collective impact at scale.
Populus Solidarity Cooperative
Populus provides accessible accounting, administrative and financial management services to its members to help support and create resilient non-profits, coops and social enterprises. Populus is a solidarity cooperative, owned and run by its members primarily based in the Montreal anglophone social solidarity economy. We make custom business services more accessible through solidarity!
SEIZE – Solidarity Economy Incubator for Zero Emissions
SEIZE educates, incubates, and organizes in support of the social solidarity economy. This means, SEIZE strategically incubates organizations and advances campaigns that are leading the transition to a new economy—supporting organizers, activists and entrepreneurs build a strong foundation for a transformative movement rooted in economic democracy, solidarity, and cooperation.
SEEnet – Social Solidarity Economy English-speaking Network
SEEnet strategically mobilizes community knowledge, leverages available resources, and builds capacity for English-speaking communities to better participate in Québec’s social solidarity economy. We offer education, coaching, and mentoring to aspiring collective entrepreneurs and community leaders. Housed within the Regional Development Network (RDN)—a collective of 18 regional organizations serving English-speaking communities in Québec.
Bar Milton Parc (BMP) Solidarity Cooperative
SEEnet strategically mobilizes community knowledge, leverages available resources, and builds capacity for English-speaking communities to better participate in Québec’s social solidarity economy. We offer education, coaching, and mentoring to aspiring collective entrepreneurs and community leaders. Housed within the Regional Development Network (RDN)—a collective of 18 regional organizations serving English-speaking communities in Québec.
Resilient Growth 