Victoria Women in Need Community Cooperative
The Victoria Women In Need Community Cooperative is an enterprising, not-for-profit organization that meets social goals through business ventures. WIN is 100 percent self-funded. Revenues from our three WIN Resale Shops finance our operations and our good works. Surplus revenue is used to fulfill our goal of creating opportunities for women to become self-sufficient.
Our Vision
WIN envisions a world in which all women have equal voice and opportunity to pursue their life’s purpose in healthy, sustainable communities.
Our Mission
WIN’s mission is to create opportunities for women and their families to be self-sufficient. Together we become inspired, socially and environmentally aware, and connected to our communities. WIN does this by operating social enterprises and by engaging in transformative good works!
We create training and employment opportunities, and assist women with the transition from transition houses to independent living. We provide emergency clothing, children's items and household goods to women in crisis. Through our Self Sufficiency Program, we provide bursaries for training, personal and career development, or to pursue opportunities that will lead to women's self sufficiency.
As members of the community you become actively involved in our good works when you donate gently-used items for resale, and when you shop and volunteer at WIN stores.
WIN was established in 1991 to provide essential programs and services to women leaving violent relationships. WIN has grown to be recognized nationally as a model of success for self-supporting, not-for-profit enterprises.
