Cooperation Richmond is a nonprofit cooperative developer dedicated to empowering low-income communities of color in Richmond and surrounding areas to build wealth. Since our founding in October 2017, we provide cooperative business education, training, mentorship, and financial support.

Richmond Greenway

As part of a national movement focusing on cooperative initiatives, our goal is to enable Richmond's marginalized residents to create community-controlled wealth and wellbeing. We help workers set up businesses they own and operate, offering support within a network committed to economic democracy and facilitating a just transition.

A just transition to what?

  • 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