CDF gathers – and helps donors to gather – financial resources that enable co-operative development projects in Canada and around the world that are undertaken by the Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA).

CCA is a national association for co-operatives in Canada, representing more than nine million co-operative and credit union members from over 2,000 organizations. Individual co-op members are represented by CCA either directly through their
co-operative, through their provincial co-op association or credit union central, or through sector organizations. CCA is itself a federally-incorporated co-operative, owned by its member organizations.