COCO Cafe

About

In house offerings of fresh baking, a full breakfast and lunch menu, an extensive Sunday brunch; and on location catering for weddings and events.

Story

COCO Cafe is a project of Cedar opportunities Co-operative. Our mission is to operate a successful social enterprise that provides employment, training, and socialization opportunities for people with developmental disabilities within their community. Cedar Opportunities Co-operative (COCO) was established in 2007 by families in the rural community of Cedar, all of whom shared a vision of full inclusion for their family members with developmental disabilities. In June 2011 COCO Café opened its doors as a realization of this concept. From its initial café operations, Cedar Opportunities Co-op has grown its services to offer a full catering, and a retail food department. We pride ourselves in continuing to grow the social aspect of our enterprise in the coming years. COCO continues to provide many permanent employment opportunities for our staff with developmental disabilities and looks forward to expanding opportunities in the future.

In 2014 COCO Cafe provided approximately 3300 hours of supported employment. With increased cafe business and catering operations in our community in 2015 our supported employment was increased to approximately 4400 hours. In 2016 we project increase of additional 25%, to 5500 hours by extending our operational hours to include dinner service and by continuing to grow our catering department.

HOW YOU CAN HELP:
-Individual and Corporate Co-op Memberships are available at COCO Cafe in cedar or online at cococafe.ca
-In Kind Donations - for our current wish list please contact us at [email protected]
-Employee Sponsorship Program - for information on this project please contact us at [email protected]

If you would like to learn more about Cedar Opportunities Co-operative and COCO Cafe please contact us at [email protected].

Impressum

Our mission is to operate a successful social enterprise that provides employment, training, and socialization opportunities for people with developmental disabilities within their community.