List of Cooperatives in DC and Surrounding Area:
Credit Unions
Daycare and Preschool Co-ops
- Capitol Hill Babysitting Co-op
- Capitol Hill Cooperative Nursery School
- Capitol Hill Learning Group
- Capitol Hill Cooperative Play School
- Caterpillar Co-op
- DC Special Education Co-op
- G Street Cooperative Playgroup
- Gan Shalom Cooperative Preschool
- Greenbelt Nursery School
- Jenkins Hill Child Development Center
- [much more to add to this list]
Food Co-ops
- City Garden Food Cooperative (Mt. Pleasant)
- GLUT Food Co-op
- Greenbelt Food CO-OP Supermarket and Pharmacy
- Maryland Food Collective
- Senbeb Natural Food Co-op
- Takoma Park Silver Spring Food Co-op
Other Consumer Co-ops
Energy Co-ops
- Brookland Solar Co-op
- Capitol Hill Solar Co-op
- Cleveland Park Energy Co-op
- DC Solar United Neighborhoods
- Mt. Pleasant Solar Co-op
- Palisades Solar Co-op
- Save our Sky Home-Heating Cooperative
- Ward 7 Solar Co-op
- Ward 8 Renewable Energy Co-op
Housing Co-ops
- Benning Heights Cooperative, Inc.
- Benning Road Cooperative, Inc.
- Brandywine Chesapeake Housing Corp.
- Harbour Square
- East Capitol Gardens
- Greenbelt Homes, Inc.
- Sursum Corda Co-op
- [much more to add to this list]
Purchasing Co-ops
- The Bike House: bicycle repair co-op
- Brighter Days Collective: dog walking
- La Cooperativa Madre Tierra: landscaping and urban agriculture
- Dream City Cooperative: clothing/bookstore
- Greenbelt News Review: newspaper
- GreenWorks Construction Cooperative: construction
- Mintwood Media Collective: public relations
- Mt. Rainier Bike Co-op: bicycle co-op
- New Deal Cafe
- Old City Green Landscape Co-op
- VeloCity Bicycle Cooperative: bicycle repair co-op
Community Exchange Co-ops
Organizations Helping Co-ops
- Community Wealth
- DC Cooperative Housing Coalition
- National Cooperative Bank
- National Association of Housing Cooperatives
- National Cooperative Business Association
- National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
- National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Future Co-ops?
- Community wireless
- H Street Bakes Co-op
- Solar energy co-op
- Translator/Interpreter co-op
Co-ops of the Past
- Capitol Cab Co. – “the largest cooperatively owned taxi fleet in the world”
- Co-op Supermarkets (Greenbelt Consumer Services)
- Exval Gas Stations (Greenbelt Consumer Services)
- Fields of Plenty food co-op (near current Tryst)
- Greenbelt Consumer Services (Greenbelt, Silver Spring, Savage; operated 6 supermarkets, 7 auto service stores, 10 SCAN Furniture stores, drug store, barber shop, movie theater, valet shop, beauty parlor, variety store, tobacco shop, laundromat, bus service, Co-op Consumer newspaper)
- Martin Luther King Co-op Store/Arthur Capper Consumer Federation, Inc.
- Off Our Backs Collective
- SCAN Furniture (Greenbelt Consumer Services and Van Ness/UDC)
- Takoma Park Pot Co-op
- Women’s Community Bakery Co-op (12th St?)
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