Worker Co-ops

AORTA – Starksboro, Vermont

A worker-owned cooperative consulting business devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy; loan for working capital. AORTA stands for Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance.

Artisan Beverage Cooperative – Greenfield, Massachusetts

A worker cooperative located in Greenfield, MA, Artisan Beverage Cooperative’s mission is to "produce the highest quality beverages possible taking into account the social and economic impacts of all decisions of the cooperative, and to demonstrate, through our...

CERO Cooperative – Boston, Massachusetts

CERO, which stands for Cooperative Energy Recycling and Organics, helps local businesses and institutions meet state requirements for organic waste disposal and improve the environment. CERO collects separated organic (food) waste and has it commercially composted....

Collective Copies – Amherst, Massachusetts

Collective Copies is a worker owned copy store. Loans for renovations, expansion in new location and working capital. "When interest rates were falling, CFNE showed itself very responsive to our needs." Download Collective Copies' borrower profile in pdf format.

Democracy Brewing – Boston, Massachusetts

Democracy Brewing is a worker-owned brewery and pub committed to making great beers and supporting our community, set to open in March 2018! Democracy Brewing's mission is to re-create the traditional public house, brew the best beer in Boston, and serve it in...

Earth Designs Cooperative – Rosendale, New York

Earth Designs Cooperative's work focuses on the sustainable and artistic management of formal gardens and natural landscapes. They design, install and maintain ornamental, edible & medicinal gardens, native meadows, no-mow lawns, natural screening, and custom...

Energia, LLC. – Holyoke, Massachusetts

Energía, LLC is a socially responsible energy services company that provides energy efficiency upgrades for residential and commercial properties.  We aim to reduce utility costs and energy use throughout western Massachusetts. Energía’s mission is to create efficient...

Green Mountain Spinnery – Putney, Vermont

A Worker-Owned Cooperative in Putney, Vermont. Since our founding thirty years ago we have been designing and producing richly colored, must-touch classic and contemporary yarns. To this day, our goals remain unchanged: to create yarns of the highest quality, to help...

Island Employee Cooperative, INC – Stonington, Maine

Comprised of Burnt Cove Market and The Galley, this cooperative  has 42 worker-owners. By forming the Island Employee Cooperative, Inc. (IEC), the largest worker cooperative in Maine and one of the larger worker co-ops in the United States, the employees were able to...

Isuken Co-op – Lewiston, Maine

Isuken Co-op is a Somali Bantu worker-owned farm-to-table food truck in Lewiston, Maine. Delicious food, grown by New Americans, on the streets! https://isukencoop.com/#

New Frameworks – Burlington, Vermont

New Frameworks is a newly converted worker cooperative that offers a new framework for ecological design and construction. New Frameworks aims to heal the interrelationships between planet, people, and the built ecology through social and ecological regenerative...

New Roots Cooperative Farm – Lewiston, Maine

New Roots Cooperative Farm is a producer cooperative in Lewiston, Maine offering vegetables to Southern Maine with a farmstand, CSA, farmers markets & wholesale. Stay connected through their Facebook page. And check out Cooperative Maine's profile video of them by...

Nuestras Raices – Holyoke, Massachusetts

Nuestras Raíces was created in 1992 by a group of community members in South Holyoke, with the goal of eventually developing a greenhouse in downtown Holyoke. The founding members of Nuestras Raíces were all migrating farmers from Puerto Rico, with a strong...

Pelham Auto – Belchertown, Massachusetts

Pelham Auto is a cooperatively owned auto parts and service business that has been serving the Pioneer Valley for over 40 years. Loan approved to fund property acquisition. "CFNE has been flexible and responsive to us." Read the Pelham Auto Success Story and check out...

Red Sun Press – Boston, Massachusetts

Red Sun Press is a cooperatively-managed printing and graphic design shop in Jamaica Plain, a diverse and burgeoning neighborhood in Boston, MA. We have a small plant with fully equipped offset presses, electronic design and pre-press capabilities, digital copy and...

Rock City Coffee – Rockland, Maine

Providing great coffee, food, live music, and community in Rockland, Maine, for 25 years, Rock City Coffee converted to a worker-owned cooperative in 2018. Learn more about Rock City and their conversion. https://rock-city-coffee.myshopify.com/

TimberHomes – Montpelier, Vermont

TimberHomes is a worker-owned design/build construction company in central Vermont, making timber frames for barns, pavilions and cabins around New England, and build timber frame homes in their local community.

Wellspring Harvest Greenhouse – Springfield, Massachusetts

The Wellspring Harvest Greenhouse worker owned cooperative is an urban farm. Wellspring Harvest is the first commercial hydroponic greenhouse in the City of Springfield, located at 121 Pinevale Street in the Indian Orchard neighborhood. The quarter acre (15,120 square...