Welcome to South Sound Cooperatives

Donations now accepted.



If you would like to support our efforts to build a stronger cooperative
movement, please send us your tax decuctible donation by writing a check
to the Northwest Cooperative Development Center, with "south sound co-ops"
written on the memo line. Please mail donations to:

NWCDC
1063 S. Capitol Way #211
Olympia, WA 98501

If you have any questions, please email or call
360-943-4241 and ask for Andrew.

We are a group of cooperative members and organizers working to create a local federation of cooperatives. We welcome your input and participation.

Federations are the basis for cooperative organization of society. They are created from the bottom up, as cooperatives join together to meet their common needs. Cooperative federations are based on democratic control of businesses, housing and social institutions. They are, in essence, cooperatives of cooperatives.

So far, most cooperative federations in the U.S. are general, or specialized depending on their type of cooperative. But cooperatives may also be organized on the basis of business activities (i.e. grocery stores or electrical utilities)

Here are some cooperative federations that we are using as models, moving from small to large geographical scope:

Portland Alliance of Worker Collectives

Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives

Washington Rural Electric Cooperative Association

Federation of Southern Cooperatives

U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

National Cooperative Business Association

North American Students of Cooperation

CICOPA (International Organisation of Industrial, Artisanal and Service Producers' Co-operatives, the global federation of worker cooperatives)

The primary purpose of this website is to provide a means for people to find others with similar cooperative ideas, and to develop those ideas. But the South Sound Region already has a number of fully operational cooperatives.

We also are developing an online resource center that can be used to schedule meetings, hold online conversations, and find like-minded potential cooperators for any project you can think up.