{"id":1555,"date":"2012-10-25T21:37:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T03:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pegcitycarcoop.dp\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2012-10-25T21:37:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T03:37:32","slug":"peg-city-car-co-op-named-finalist-in-national-co-op-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/peg-city-car-co-op-named-finalist-in-national-co-op-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Peg City Car Co-op named finalist in National Co-op Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Votes could support carshare expansion in Winnipeg!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P5OQfe7WGAE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nPeg City Car Co-op has been selected <strong>as one of six finalists<\/strong> from Western Canada in <strong>The Co-operators National Co-op Contest<\/strong>. It is now up to the public to vote through Facebook to determine the winner. Peg City Car Co-op\u2014the only finalist from Manitoba\u2014is looking to engage the local community to help it earn up to $30,000 in prize money.<\/p>\n<p>As a burgeoning Winnipeg co-op, Peg City has grown over the last year to 108 members and 4 carshare vehicles. Now the local car co-op is looking to expand into the Corydon, Broadway-Assiniboine, West Broadway, Wolseley, West End, Downtown, and Exchange District neighbourhoods. Prize winnings from the National Co-op Challenge would be used to support a marketing campaign to grow membership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled at being selected as a finalist and hope Manitobans will support a local organization by voting for us in the National Co-op Challenge,\u201d says Liz Dykman, President of Peg City Car Co-op. \u201cWe want to be able to bring carsharing to more Winnipeg neighbourhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The social media-based contest is designed to support small and expanding co-ops during 2012, the International Year of Co-operatives.<\/p>\n<p>Each finalist has produced a short video making their pitch, and <strong>voting is open to anyone with a Facebook account<\/strong>, through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCooperatorsInsurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Co-operators Facebook page<\/a>. The three co-ops in each region with the most votes on their video will receive prizes of $30,000, $15,000 and $10,000 from The Co-operators to help them grow their business. A Grand Prize winner will also be drawn from the four regional finalists and will win extra resources to further support their organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a co-op, we are committed to strengthening the co-op sector. We wanted to do something special during the International Year of Co-operatives to support small Canadian co-ops trying to get to the next level of their development,\u201d said Kathy Bardswick, President and CEO of The Co-operators.<\/p>\n<p>Public voting began October 22 and it\u2019s up to Canada to choose a winner. To view the videos and vote, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheCooperatorsInsurance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Co-operators Facebook page<\/a> <strong>before November 21.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another way people can support the growth of Peg City Car Co-op into new Winnipeg neighbourhoods is to purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/invest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investment shares<\/a>. The investment shares are available in $100 increments and Manitoba investors are eligible for a <strong>30% personal income tax credit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Votes could support carshare expansion in Winnipeg! Peg City Car Co-op has been selected as one of six finalists from Western Canada in The Co-operators National Co-op Contest. It is now up to the public to vote through Facebook to determine the winner. Peg City Car Co-op\u2014the only finalist from Manitoba\u2014is looking to engage the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pegcitycarcoop.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}