Co-op Support Organizations

Boston and the Northeast are rich with support organizations committed to the success of worker-owned businesses.   Feel free to contact them to see how they can help with starting, expanding, or converting a co-op.

• Boston Center for Community Ownership – an urban co-op development center with a grassroots organizing perspective, focusing on worker, consumer, and hybrid cooperatives and democratic investment models
• The Cooperative Development Institute
  Works with worker, consumer and producer cooperatives throughout New York and New England.
• The Vermont Employee Ownership Center
  Focuses on ESOPs and worker co-ops in the state of Vermont.
• The ICA Group
  Works with local organizations around the country to create worker-owned businesses.
• Ownership Associates
  Specializes in creating a culture of ownership in ESOP and cooperative businesses.