Cooperation Richmond is a nonprofit cooperative developer supporting working-class communities of color in Richmond to build community wealth.

Since our founding in October 2017, we provide cooperative business education, training, mentorship, and financial support.

Richmond Greenway

As part of a national cooperative movement, we help Richmond’s working class residents build community-controlled wealth and wellbeing. We work with democratically led businesses of all kinds meeting them where they are and helping them advance shared leadership, equity, and collective ownership as part of a just transition.

A just transition to what?

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  • Vision

    Richmond's economy thrives on local, worker and community-controlled businesses, tending to socially and ecologically thriving ecosystems.

  • Mission

    To support wealth-building and well-being in Richmond's low-income & working class communities.

Values

  • Self-Determination: Our innate power to shape our own path

    Solidarity: We are transformed through collective struggle

    Family & Community: Our communities are our broader families for positive change

    Integrity: We demonstrate our values with workers and community members

    Resilience: We believe in our collective ability to overcome adversity