is proud to be a cooperative owned and operated by the 20,631 dairy farm families they serve across the country. Address: Northeast Regional Office, 5001 Brittonfield Parkway, East Syracuse, NY 13057. Telephone: 315-431-1352 or 888-332-6455. Fax: 315-433-2345.
Service cooperative providing dairy and beef sires and service to its farmer-owned members. Genex is owned by Cooperative Resources International (CRI), a member-owned holding cooperative formed in 1993. Headquarters: 100 MBC Drive, Shawano, WI 54166. Phone: 715-526-2141 Fax: 715-526-3219.
A cooperative that provides data processing, technician, and laboratory services to its dairy farmer members in south-central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland. Address: 1592 Old Line Road, Manheim, PA 17545. Phone: 717-665-5960.http://www.LancasterDHIA.com
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. Address: 48 Eagle Drive, Leola, PA 17540. Telephone: 717-656-3533. Fax: 800-996-0383.
A national food and agricultural cooperative serving family farmers from the East Coast to the West Coast. Land O'Lakes processes over 10 billion pounds of milk annually and markets more than 300 dairy products across the United States and around the world. Address: Box 64101, St. Paul, MN 55164. Telephone: 800-328-9680.
A national grape marketing cooperative that markets its products under the name Welch’s (website: www.welchs.com). Address: 2 South Portage Street, Westfield, NY 14787. Telephone: 716-326-5200.
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 Rd., Harrisville, PA 16038. Telephone: 724-735-4054.
TOG is a family farm marketing cooperative since 1988. The co-op consists of 25 producers that sell over 50,000 cases of local grown organic produce from farm to city, all year. Address: 22275 Anderson Hollow Rd., Hustontown, PA 17229. Telephone: 814-448-2173. Fax: 814-448-2333. Email: info (at) tog (dot) coop.
A software cooperative that brings together developers, publishers, distributors and users of educational software. Address: ESC, 127, Ranch Rd., DelValle, TX 78617.
This membership-based organization was established by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. The Western Cooperative facilitates resource sharing, information sharing, and policy advocacy in the use of educational technologies and telecommunications. Members come from higher education, non-profit organizations, K-12 schools, and corporations located in 33 states, Canada, Malaysia and Norway. Address: 3035 Center Green Drive, Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80301. Telephone: 303-541-0291 or 303-541-0200.
A women’s cooperative made up of professionally trained worker-owners whose business provides residential and commercial cleaning services. Address: 1904 Franklin St., Suite 801, Oakland, CA 94612. Telephone: 510-451-3100.
These 160 employee-owned cooperatives involving 23,000 member owners with gross sales of $3 billion dollars US support an extensive website with many links.
NoBAWC is comprised of about 50 self-managed workplaces. By self-management, it is meant to be a workplace where the workers control the resources of the organization and the work process. Address: 2335 Valley St., Oakland, CA 94612. Telephone: 510-835-0254.
A cooperative to provide natural, organic food with a focus on vegetarian and environmentally health conscious products at an affordable price. Rainbow Grocery is an independent, collectively run, worker-owned and operated cooperative at which decision making and responsibilities are shared through democratic structures and elected committees. Address: 1745 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Telephone: 415-863-0620.
A non-profit, member owned electric utility serving south central Pennsylvania. Headquarters Office is located at 1338 Biglerville Rd., PO Box 1055 Gettysburg, PA 17325-1055. Telephone: 717-334-2171 or 1-888-232-6732.
This is a 6500 member cooperative in Philadelphia that supplies heating oil and other services to its members. It was 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. Address: 1218 Chestnut Street Suite, 1003; Philadelphia, PA 19107; toll free 800-223-5783; phone 215-413-2122; fax 215-413-2140.
Also: http://www.lsbc.us
LSBC is a cooperative consisting of various private and public entities that share wireless broadband services at comparable prices. Contact: Michele Holochwost at 410-957-6060. Address: 1731 Broad St., Pocomoke, MD 21851.
National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative as a national cooperative represents the telecommunications and information technology interests of more than 1000 rural utilities and affiliates in 46 states. We help rural electric and telephone utilities strengthen their businesses with solutions uniquely suited to the needs of rural consumers. Address: 2121 Cooperative Way, Suite 400, Herndon, VA 20171. Telephone: 800-995-5592 or 703-787-0874.
This cooperative association serves as the unified voice for electric cooperatives in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They provide an excellent on-line and dial-up resource and link for information on electric issues and cooperatives in Pennsylvania. Address: P.O. Box 1266, Harrisburg, PA 17108. Telephone: 717-233-5704. Fax: 717-234-1309. Email: info (at) prea (dot) com.
A cooperative that provides electrical services to its members. Address: P.O. Box 526, 22 North Main Street, Mansfield, PA 16933-0526. Telephone: 570-662-2175.
This is a consumer-owned utility providing electric service to more than 20,000 consumers. Address: 10700 Fairgrounds Rd., P.O. Box 477, Huntingdon, PA 16652-0477. Telephone: 814-643-2650 or 800-432-0680.
East End Food Co-op is an organic and natural foods grocer with an award winning vegetarian cafe. Address: 7516 Meade Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15208. Telephone: 412-242-3598.
An online cooperative resource and natural food directory service. This on-line site provides good access to food cooperative resources and links to other sites of interest. For Maryland listings check: http://www.coopdirectory.org/directory.htm#maryland
The website for this consumer cooperative in Michigan provides a useful model for other consumer cooperatives and links to other resources. Address: 216 N. Fourth St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Telephone: Store: 734-994-9174 or Office: 734-769-0095.
This is a member-owned retail cooperative in Philadelphia's West Mt. Airy section. A community institution since 1973; Weavers Way now has over 3,000 member households and annual sales of over $5 million. In addition to the food store around which this co-op was organized; Weavers Way now offers such additional services as: a credit union; a heating oil co-op; photocopying; fax; and check cashing. Address: 559 Carpenter Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19119. Telephone: 215-843-2350.
Massachusetts Woodlands Cooperative (MWC) is a cooperative and non-profit formed at the same time. The cooperative was formed to operate as a business that adds value to members’ timber and markets those value-added products on behalf of the members. MWC has over 20 members with aggregate holdings of more than 2,000 acres. Address: 1 Sugarloaf Street, South Deerfield, MA 01373-1119. Telephone: 413-397-8800.
Wisconsin Family Forests (WFF) was organized to support private landowners that are interested in learning and applying the concepts of sustainable forestry. WFF consists of neighborhood alliances of local forest landowners that share their experiences and pool their needs for professional assistance and additional knowledge. Through local alliances that focus on sustainable forestry practices, neighbors work with neighbors, strengthening community connections and improving the management of local natural resources. Address: P.O. Box 682, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495-0682. Telephone: 715-213-1618.
A member-owned, non-profit professional marketing organizatin preserving client privacy and professional integrity. An on-line site for an alliance of over 2,000 mental health practitioners. Useful links to other resources.
Cooperative Care is a worker-owned cooperative of home care workers and certified nursing assistants. Address: Box 620, 402 E. Main St., Wautoma, WI 54982.
A cooperative of hospitals and hospital networks. Telephone: 207-771-3456.
A network of senior-owned housing. Cooperatively owned senior housing provides full apartment and townhouse living, controlled by the seniors themselves. All financial benefits accrue to the senior owners, including return of equity upon resale. Contact Terry McKinley Address: 909 B, Selby Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104. Telephone 651-301-0225. Email: info (at) seniorcoops (dot) org.
A buying cooperative for higher education and health care. This not-for-profit buying cooperative is owned by more than 1500 colleges, universities, prep schools, hospitals, medical research institutions and hospital purchasing organizations. Address: 2 Jericho Plaza, Suite 309, Jericho, New York, 11753-1671. Telephone: 800-283-2634.
A member owned purchasing cooperative since 1967. FPA has grown to become the largest and most profitable purchasing cooperative in the country. Their mission is to serve the best interests of the member/owners by providing the best combination of price, quality and service. Address: 226 E. Nittany Ave., State college, PA 16801. Telephone: 814-237-8800. Fax: 814-237-8805. Email: fpa (at) fpacoop (dot) com.
This is a $600 million per year food, equipment, and supply purchasing cooperative for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell franchises. Address: 950 Breckinridge Lane, Louisville, KY 40207. Telephone: 502-896-5900.
Examples of Cooperatives (by co-op type)