Co-op resources/sites

"I want to make the company work for me."

Sustainable Economies Law Center cultivates a new legal landscape that supports community resilience and grassroots economic empowerment. We provide essential legal tools so communities everywhere can develop their own sustainable sources of food, housing, energy, jobs, and other vital aspects of a thriving community. We provide essential legal tools - education, research, advice, and advocacy - to support the transition to more just and resilient local economies.

A guide to founding a company that's collectively owned by its workers or customers, written by Austin Robey with illustrations by Somnath Bhatt.

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We help businesses and communities discover the power of employee ownership. Owners retire well, employees gain equity and businesses stay locally rooted.

We want to live in a society where enterprises and assets are owned and controlled by the communities that depend on them for livelihoods, sustenance, and ecological well-being. That's why the Sustainable Economies Law Center's Cooperatives Program works to vastly expand the legal resources and cultivate a fertile legal landscape for the growth of cooperatives for the benefit of workers. We provide education, advocacy, research, and advice for worker centered cooperatives, including the creation of legal documents and guidance for best practices.

A national network of cooperative development centers providing everything from board trainings to business development for new and growing co-ops!

Taking the time to create a business model canvas can help focus your project and organize your people behind the business idea.

A successful business doesn’t just happen. Like a garden, a healthy business requires planning, nurturing, and a hospitable environment. It also requires experimentation, adaptation, and...

A guide to founding a company that's collectively owned by its workers or customers, written by Austin Robey with illustrations by Somnath Bhatt.

A cooperative is a business or organization owned by and operated for the benefit of those using its services. Profits and earnings generated by the cooperative are distributed among the members, also known as user-owners.

A cooperative, or co-op, is an organization owned and controlled by the people who use the products or services the business produces. Cooperatives differ from other forms of businesses because they operate more for the benefit of members, rather than to earn profits for investors. Cooperative businesses can be as small as a community buying...

Frank Cetera is an Advanced Certified Business Advisor with 10-years service for Onondaga SBDC - Syracuse, NY - specializing in Employee-Ownership.

A hub that helps you start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops.