Chester's Community Grocery Co-op is a cooperative store where the Chester community can buy fresh fruits and vegetables and other quality and nutritious foods at the lowest possible cost.

The last supermarket left Chester 15 years ago along with the once thriving retail trade businesses.  Chester's Community Grocery Co-op was formed in response to the community's desire to meet a crucial need that was not being met in the City of Chester -- access to quality, fresh , healthy produce and groceries.

The Food Marketing cooperative was incorporated in October of 2003, as a for profit, PA corporation.  The cooperative offers a broad range of vegetarian, organic, sugar-free, Kosher, functional, gourmet and other specialty food and beverage products for retail and food service. Grants were received from the PA Department of Agriculture and the Keystone Development Center.  The initial members, five food manufacturing companies, identified exporting, advertising & promotion, and domestic product distributions as the three areas of greatest common need.

Started by dedicated Penn State Greek Undergraduates and alumni, FPA has grown to become the largest and most profitable purchasing cooperative in the nation. Annual purchases of FPA members exceeded three million dollars this year, giving the co-op members added strength in the local marketplace.

Started informally in 2003 when four independent, fair-trade coffeeshops in Philadelphia began sharing information & resources. Recognizing a common "triple bottom line philosophy," they realized that they could have a greater impact on "people, profit and the planet" if they worked together.

KFCA is a marketing cooperative that sells locally raised natural beef to area retailers, local residents and restaurants.  KFCA was incorporated in 2005 by cattlemen from southwestern PA that are dedicated to producing and marketing a natural premium beef product that is great tasting, locally raised, with no added antibiotics or hormones.  

Lancaster Farm Fresh is a cooperative of 15 organic farmers who market and distribute organic produce and naturally raised farm products to the Lancaster and greater Philadelphia area.

MAAC was formed by 24 cooperatives based in Pennsylvania and Maryland in recognition that cooperative businesses are unique, and that they would individually gain strength by combining efforts to meet their specialized needs and interests. Cooperatives face many challenges in the coming years: growing profitably and managing change, staying competitive, expanding membership, and hiring, training and retaining employees. Through MAAC, the member cooperatives are creating services that will help them deal with these priorities and others in today's business world.

NWPA is a producer owned marketing cooperative that markets organic and naturally grown produce, meats, eggs and honey year round through farmers markets, restaurants, a CSA and an online winter market buying club.  Address:  141 Porter Road, Harrisville 16038.  Telephone:  724-735-4054.

Penn's Corner Farm Alliance is a farm cooperative which started in 1999 to provide high quality, fresh produce directly to the restaurants in the Pittsburgh vicinity. In addition, Penn's Corner has a highly rated CSA. With 15 growers, Penn's Corner is able to provide a wide selection of fruit and vegetables each week for their  subscribers.

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The Energy Cooperative is a nonprofit, member-owned cooperative with over 6500 members throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania. Founded in 1979 by Weaver’s Way, a successful food cooperative in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, The Energy Cooperative has provided savings on home heating oil for 25 years.

Thousands of households, businesses, organizations, and municipalities count on us to help them control their energy costs. The Energy Cooperative is licensed by the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission as an electricity supplier in Pennsylvania.

WoodWorks is a sustainable forestry initiative of CooperationWorks!, helping transform America’s private forestland and marginal farmland into sustainable, productive resources by promoting and assisting cooperative action among farmers and other rural landowners.

WoodWorks conducts educational workshops on the benefits of sustainable land management for small farmers and rural landowners, and provides technical assistance to individuals and organizations wanting help in establishing forestry cooperatives and landowner associations. WoodWorks also assists with the integration of sustainable land management programs in existing farm cooperatives, and builds individual and organizational alliances through national, regional, state-level and sub-state partnerships.