Co-op Links

Local

• Austin Cooperatives
  • List of other co-ops in Austin.
• The Darkroom Co-op
  • The Pearl Street Darkroom Co-op is a community darkroom space independently maintained and organized by its members.
• Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC)
  • The ICC co-ops form another major group of student housing cooperative in Austin, Texas.
• Sasona Co-op
  • This cooperative was founded by seventeen former 21st Street Co-op residents.
• Deutsches Haus
  • Deutsches Haus (German House) is another student housing cooperative in Austin, Texas. You don't have to speak German to live there though!
• The Black Star Co-op
  • The world’s first co-operatively owned and worker self-managed brewpub. Homegrown in Austin, TX.
• Wheatsville Co-op
  • Austin's member-owned grocery store, located on Guadalupe.
• Third Coast Workers for Cooperation
  • An Austin-based organization committed to the development and support of green worker cooperatives.

National

• North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO)
  • NASCO maintains a listing of housing cooperatives throughtout North America including links to other cooperative groups. Its page also gives information about cooperatives and the history and development of the Cooperative movement. Definitely a must-see page for all co-opers!
• National Cooperative Business Association
  • This site is devoted to helping people understand what cooperatives are and how they can use the cooperative model to help themselves and their communities. It includes info about and/or links to food co-ops, child-care co-ops, housing co-ops, agricultural co-ops, financial co-ops, cooperative economic development, and much more.

International

• Intentional Communities
  • Intentional Community is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects and dreams...
• International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)
  • The International Cooperative Alliance is worldwide organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, which promotes cooperation in all forms. Another must-see page for all co-opers!
• Study Abroad Programs France
  • Take your educational experiences out of the classroom to overseas with a study abroad program in France.