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Industry Associations
Agfinity
Agfinity is one of the largest and strongest agricultural cooperatives in Colorado. We are your one stop shop for the farming and ranching communities across…
Larimer County · agfinityinc.com
Foundations & Impact Funds
Beyster Foundation for Enterprise Development (BFED)
The Beyster Foundation for Enterprise Development (BFED) supports interdisciplinary research, higher education programs, and innovative place-based initiatives…
National · beyster.com
Legal & IP
Blue Dot Advocates
Blue Dot Advocates, PBC (a public benefit cooperative) is a law firm that for almost a decade has focused on impact investing, social enterprise, and building…
Larimer County · bluedotlaw.com
Economic Development Organizations
Center for Community Wealth (CFCW)
We work to transform the current economic development system to a more inclusive and equitable model that prioritizes democratically-owned businesses…
Denver County · communitywealth.org
Strategy, Growth & Operations
Co-Own Strategies
We help business owners design and execute employee ownership transitions to preserve legacy, retain top employees, and maximize returns.
Denver County · co-own-strategies.com
Banks & CDFIs
CoBank
CoBank is a cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to…
Arapahoe County · cobank.com
Policy & Advocacy
Democracy at Work Institute
The Democracy at Work Institute expands the promise of cooperative business ownership to reach those communities most directly affected by social and economic…
National · institute.coop
Communities & Spaces
Design Workshop
Design Workshop is a 100% employee-owned international design studio spanning the fields of landscape architecture, urban design, planning, economics…
Denver County · designworkshop.com
Industry Associations
La Plata Electric Association (LPEA)
La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) is Colorado’s fifth-largest electric distribution cooperative, proudly serving more than 37,000 residential, commercial…
La Plata County · lpea.coop
Foundations & Impact Funds
LEAF Fund
LEAF is a nonprofit community loan fund for cooperatives and underserved small businesses. LEAF provides culturally competent technical assistance (TA) and…
National · leaffund.org
News Publishers & Other
Media Economies Design Lab
What does it take to build thriving media organizations, accountable to the communities they serve? At a time of global platform monopolies and local…
Boulder County · colorado.edu
Industry Associations
National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International (NCBA CLUSA)
NCBA CLUSA is the primary voice in the United States for people who use cooperatives to build a better world. NCBA CLUSA provides cross-sector support…
National · ncbaclusa.coop
Economic Development
Ownership Works
Ownership Works is a nonprofit organization that partners with companies and investors to provide all employees with the opportunity to build wealth at work.…
Statewide · ownershipworks.org
Economic Development Organizations
Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (RMEOC)
At the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center (RMEOC), we believe in building an economy that works for everyone. We help business owners, workers, and…
Denver County · rmeoc.org
Industry Associations
Sangre de Cristo Electric Association (SDCEA)
SDCEA has more than 15,000 consumer-members who mutually own this rural electric cooperative — that is you, our account holders. We’re headquartered in Buena…
Chaffee County · myelectric.coop
Banks & CDFIs
Shared Capital Cooperative
Shared Capital Cooperative is a national loan fund and federally certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides financing to…
National · sharedcapital.coop
Economic Development
Start.Coop
We're here to jump start the next generation of cooperative businesses: we grow the entrepreneur pipeline and strengthen the cooperative ecosystem, we equip…
National · start.coop
Programs
The Industrial Commons
The Industrial Commons founds and scales employee-owned social enterprises, industrial cooperatives, and supports frontline workers to build a new southern…
Statewide · theindustrialcommons.org
Economic Development Organizations
The National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
The NCEO is a nonprofit organization, established in 1981, whose mission is to make employee ownership thrive by making it bigger and better. Our members…
National · nceo.org
Makerspaces
The Phoenix Asylum
The Phoenix Asylum is a Non-Profit Workshop Cooperative and Makerspace in Boulder, CO's lovely east-side warehouse district. Since 2007, we have been providing…
Boulder County · phoenixasylum.org
Industry Associations
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association
We are Tri-State, a not-for-profit, wholesale power supplier to electric cooperatives and public power districts across the Western U.S. Together, we power the…
Adams County · tristate.coop
Communities & Spaces
User Cooperative
We're a user-owned web browser startup that's uniquely structured as a free and open consumer cooperative, a member-owned and -governed company. That makes us…
La Plata County · usercooperative.com