Portland Food Coop

Over 5000 Member-Owners Strong

The Portland Food Co-op is a thriving, member-owned marketplace that strengthens the local food economy while building and nourishing community.

Tootie's Tempeh

Tootie’s Tempeh™ is a worker-owned consumer foods cooperative innovating tempeh—a high protein, plant-based food.

Belfast Community Co-op is a community-owned market and café since 1976. It is their mission and pleasure to bring locally-sourced, reasonably priced, organic and natural products to all. The Belfast Community Co-op is here so that everyone will always have reliable, safe access to good local food.

Fare Share Food Cooperative

Since 1978, Fare Share has been serving the Oxford Hills community as an anchor business on Main Street in Norway, Maine. With 1000 owners and growing, Fare Share also shares the building they own with businesses and non-profit tenants that contribute to the rich fabric of their community.

Blue Hill Co-op

Serving local & organic since 1974

Cooperative Fund of the Northeast

Since 1975, the Cooperative Fund of the Northeast has successfully disbursed over $76 million in more than 1,000 loans to cooperatives across New England, and the Capital Region of New York, including millions of dollars to dozens of co-ops in Maine.

Cooperative Development Institute

We envision a democratically owned and just economy where everyone can fulfill their needs and aspirations.

Raise Op

If our buildings are the bricks, then our relationships are the mortar, and our mission is the foundation upon which everything rests.

Rock City

Providing great coffee, food, live music, and community in Rockland, Maine, for 25 years.

Island Employee Cooperative

Providing great coffee, food, live music, and community in Rockland, Maine, for 25 years.

Wheelers Insurance

At Wheelers Insurance, we help clients compare and save on insurance coverage and pricing with dependable service and reliable advice so together, we can protect what matters most.

Isuken Co-op

Isuken is the first Somali Bantu farm to table cooperative food truck.

PROJECT CO+OP

PROJECT CO+OP specializes in building design, urban design, community planning, product design, and sustainability.

Rising Tide Co-op

Rising Tide Co-op is a cooperatively-owned natural grocery serving Midcoast Maine since 1978

Cabot Creamery Co-op

Cabot Creamery Co-operative has been in operation since 1919, making a full line of award-winning cheddar cheese and dairy products. Cabot is owned by 800 dairy farm families throughout New England and New York. As a co-operative and certified B Corp, Cabot is committed to the planet, its people, and returning profits to the farmer owners.

Zero Energy Homes

Zero Energy Homes is an employee-owned cooperative that offer off-site modular construction using Maine materials and lean manufacturing strategies

Owning Maine’s Future

Opportunities and policies for growing a cooperative economy in Maine.

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Maine can create a prosperous, equitable economy where all of us — young and old, new and longstanding — can fulfill our needs and aspirations.

Working together, we can create an economy that generates more wealth and security for more Mainers, promotes entrepreneurship and innovation, and roots ownership more deeply in our communities.