What is Populus?

 

Populus is a response to a collective need for long-term financial and business management solutions. As a member-based organization, Populus is designed to leverage resources to connect user-members with top quality bookkeeping, training and consulting services, as well as create meaningful, rewarding employment to its worker-members.

 

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!

 

The Principles Behind the Practice

Populus solidarity cooperative provides accessible accounting, administrative and financial management services to its members to enable organizational success.

Populus envisions accessible professional services for a flourishing social solidarity economy.

which means being reliable, accountable and transparent in our actions and communicating with openness and respect with all members.

 

which means continuous learning and improvement by and for members through shared information and creating knowledge networks.

 

which includes making knowledge and services affordable and available to co-op members and social solidarity economy leaders.

 

The People Behind Populus   

 

We are a small, dedicated, women-centered team that collaborates closely to meet the diverse needs of our user members. In the photo, the team members are listed clockwise:

  • Monique Willis - Lead Bookkeeper Technician & Board Member
  • Amanda Russelo - Bookkeeper Technician
  • Shylah Wolfe - Managing Director
  • Olivia Champagne - Co-founding User Member & Board Member

 

Together, we’re building collective resilience and supporting the growth of cooperatives and social enterprises!

 

Get in touch with us: Info[@]populus.coop
User Members of Populus  
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