ACCESS - Intake and Inquiry
The Allied Community and Cooperative Shared Services (ACCESS) is a nonprofit cooperative shared service model specifically formed to provide administrative back-office support for civil society organizations across Alberta. ACCESS provides co-aligned shared staff to fit civil society organizations' unique needs. It is an innovative, collaborative solution that fills service gaps and increases efficiencies, allowing nonprofits and cooperatives to focus on what they do best.
In order to to be eligible to obtain services through ACCESS, your organization must be a current member of one of our three member-owners: Volunteer Alberta, Alberta Community & Cooperative Association (ACCA), or Econocoop.
ACCESS is in a development phase and currently offers the following services:
Bookkeeping
Information Technology (IT)
Legal
If you have questions about ACCESS, or to obtain a quote for your organization, please fill out this form, or email us at: access@sharedservices.coop
What is ACCESS?
Formed to provide co-aligned, administrative back-office support.
The concept of shared services is not new. However, it is enjoying a new lease on life as nonprofit and co-op leaders seek new ways to meet current organizational and budgetary pressures.
Built to Support
Whether you’re just getting started or have had your doors open for a while, you’re likely looking for opportunities to obtain the just-the-right-type and just- the-right-amount of support you need to succeed.
Built to Collaborate
Our provincial and national partners actively determine how to best combine critical corporate, legal and operational resources to share back-office infrastructure successfully.
Built to Sustain
Guided by a vision of abundance and possibility, we help leverage organizations’ combined demand and resources to increase efficiencies.
No Extra Cost
Members of ACCESS’s affiliated member-based associations only pay for our professional services used - without the burden of additional membership fees.