About Our Directory Services

In 2020, we partnered with the worker cooperative  Digital Commons Cooperative to develop our combined directory and mapping service for cooperative organizations. Our key reasons driving our development:

• The need for authentic cooperatives to become more visible in their community and to connect with other cooperatives and support organizations.
• The need for the public to know of and easily locate and do business with authentic cooperatives in their community, discovering them from their smartphone or desktop.
• To encourage cooperatives of all shapes, sizes and from every corner in the world to take part in building the most comprehensive digital directory of the cooperative movement, simply by registering their .COOP domain for authentication and inclusion in the directory.
• To provide an open and transparent process to the global cooperative community to determine if a cooperative or cooperative support organization has lost its eligibility status (verification required for admission).

That same year we completed the development and launched our online  COOP Global Directory & Map to put cooperative organizations on the map, to promote their efforts, and bring about new participation and collaboration. The directory features both a map lookup as well as a search feature. Find a cooperative near you or anywhere in the world from your desktop or smartphone.