Types of Cooperative Organizations
- Agricultural cooperative, also known as a farmers' co-op, an enterprise or company where farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity
- Artist cooperative, an autonomous visual arts organization, enterprise, or association jointly-owned and democratically-controlled by and for the benefit of its artist-members
- Building cooperative, a cooperative housing corporation where individuals or families work together to directly construct their own homes in a cooperative fashion
- Consumers cooperative, a cooperative business owned by its customers for their mutual benefit
- Housing cooperative, a legal entity that owns real estate, as opposed to a condominium
- Retailers cooperative, or a secondary or marketing cooperative, an organization which employs economies of scale on behalf of its members to get discounts from manufacturers and to pool marketing
- Utility cooperative, a public utility that is owned by its customers
- Worker cooperative, or producer cooperative, an enterprise or company owned and democratically controlled by its worker-owners
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