Check out the 31 featured Cooperatives and Co-op Support Organizations who participated in the 2026 Own It! A Co-op Fest event. These cooperatives are opportunities to shop with your values and choose co-op in more areas of your life.
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Minnesota Cooperative Career Resources
Explore work in organizations owned by the people who use their services, produce their goods, or work there. Start with a sector that interests you, scan its openings, and use the contact to ask about career paths or local opportunities. These links are starting points, not a complete list of co-op employers.
Continue readingCoMinnesota Co-ops 101 Recording
In case you missed or were unable to attend CoMinnesota’s quarterly co-ops 101, we are sharing the recording from a past session this year (Passcode: 22cN*YXr) Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions after you view the recording.
Continue readingCo-ops 101 LaunchBox
Minnesota has more cooperatives than any other state. CoMinnesota LaunchBox is a free, practical place to understand shared ownership and explore how co-ops can help communities meet challenges together. Explore Now
Continue readingOrigins and Legacies: The History of the Cooperative Movement
Written during the earlier days of the “new wave” cooperative movement spawned by the counter-culture food co-op folk, this project let a bunch of newbies know there was quite the heritage that came before.
Continue readingCooperative Fund of New England
The Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE) is a community development loan fund that facilitates socially responsible investing in cooperatives, community-oriented nonprofits, and worker-owned businesses in New England and adjacent communities in New York.
Continue readingDemocracy Collaborative, Community Wealth Building Resources
Few Americans are aware of the steady build-up of innovative community wealth building strategies throughout the United States. Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.
Continue readingUS Federation of Worker Cooperatives
The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) is the national grassroots membership organization for worker cooperatives. Our mission is to build a thriving cooperative movement of stable, empowering jobs through worker-ownership. We advance worker-owned, -managed, and -governed workplaces through cooperative education, advocacy and development.
Continue readingCooperative Network – Minnesota/Wisconsin
Cooperative Network is committed to protecting and promoting Minnesota’s and Wisconsin’s cooperative businesses and their shared cooperative principles. It provides world-class legislative and regulatory advocacy, a wide range of opportunities for education and engagement, and creative leadership in public awareness. Cooperative Network is the largest statewide co-op trade association in the United States, representing a diverse and […]
Continue readingCooperative Development Services
Since 1985, Cooperative Development Services has helped existing cooperatives retain their vitality and plan for future growth opportunities. CDS also actively engages with new cooperatives and organizations operating in a cooperative manner to launch new business ventures and plan for long-term viability.
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